Case Study

Company: BT Ignite Applications ServicesCustomer: J&HM Dickson LtdSubmitted by: Bite Communications LtdDate: Summer 2000Many manufacturing companies still rely heavily on their locality for business, but Glasgow based J&HM Dickson Ltd is an exception. Many of its orders come from England and Europe but very few from Scotland. So when the industrial bag manufacturer was looking […]

Company: AutodeskCustomer: Salter Weigh-TronixSubmitted by: The WhiteOaks ConsultancyWe all know what the two oldest professions in the world are, but what’s the third? The art of weighing and measuring might have a claim and among the oldest surviving weighing machine companies, still producing today, is Salter Weigh-Tronix. Based close to the original site in West […]

Company: Access ConsultingCustomer: Cadbury SchweppesSubmitted by: Buffalo CommunicationsDate: Autumn 2000Cadbury Schweppes is a major global company, which manufactures, markets and distributes its branded beverages and confectionery products in almost 200 countries. Famous brands include Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Schweppes and Dr Pepper. The Group employs over 37,000 people world-wide, over 6,000 of whom are located in […]

Company: AutodeskCustomer: Telescope Technologies LimitedSubmitted by: The WhiteOaks ConsultancyWhat does La Palma in the Canaries have in common with Merseyside? The answer is – telescopes! For La Palma is the home of the international Roque de los Muchachos observatory site, the location for The Liverpool Telescope, the first telescope designed, manufactured and assembled by Telescope […]

Company: AutodeskCustomer: Titan MotorsportSubmitted by: The WhiteOaks ConsultancyRace-cars and rally cars are highly modified thoroughbreds that require a variety of custom designed parts to enhance their engine performance. Titan Motorsport specialise in this and use Mechanical Desktop 4 to achieve maximum efficiency and time-saving in the design phase.Titan Motorsport started life in 1967 as Charles […]

Company: MicrosoftCustomer: TibnorSubmitted by: Shandwick(SWEDEN) Tibnor wanted to introduce an eCommerce model. This meant streamlining its sales process, improving information delivery to customers and boosting the efficiency of sales visits. It chose a Microsoft® Windows® Powered Pocket PC solution from Know IT to get more accurate data into the hands of sales people and improve […]

Company: Rover GroupCustomer: SoftlabSubmitted by: Portfolio CommunicationsDate: September 1999Rover Group, Britain’s largest motor manufacturer and third largest exporter, employs over 39,000 people in the UK and internationally. On 26 March 1999, Softlab Ltd and Rover Group completed the latest phase of the Rover Group Enterprise Data Warehouse. This marks the culmination of Rover’s strategic plan […]

Company: SoftlabCustomer: Rover GroupSubmitted by: Portfolio CommunicationsWhen BMW acquired Rover Group, Britain’s largest motor manufacturer and third largest exporter, one of the first and top priorities was to design a replacement for the older Rover 600 and 800 series. The result was the Rover 75, launched in early summer 1999 in the UK and the […]

Company: MicrosoftCustomer: VenoSubmitted by: ShandwickDate: June 2000(DENMARK) Veno is the sales and distribution arm of the largest biscuit manufacturer in Denmark. It is relied upon to deliver a quality product at a competitive price to the largest and smallest outlets across the country. In the past, the distributor of the famous Danish butter biscuits used […]

Company: AutodeskCustomer: Chichester Miles ConsultantsSubmitted by: The WhiteOaks ConsultancyIn the skies over Wisconsin late last year, buzzed a unique aeroplane – the only jet powered four-seater light aircraft in the world. It was one of the daily highlights of the annual OshKosh Air show – the world’s annual fair for experimental and homebuilt light aircraft. […]

Company: Ipswitch Inc.Customer: ParitySubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: August 2000Parity Solutions’ mission statement is to improve the performance of its clients’ businesses through the delivery of leading-edge technology expertise. With a heritage in offering specialist teams that deliver the full lifecycle of professional services – including IT consultancy, systems development, support and application management and training […]

Company: Ipswitch Inc.Customer: NCRSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: June 1999NCR Corporation sells financial and retail terminals throughout the world and has a heritage of exemplary customer service and cutting-edge IT development spanning 116 years. With 32,000 employees and revenues last year exceeding $6 billion worldwide, NCR is reliant on its computer systems to be operational all […]

Company: Ipswitch Inc.Customer: Daimler ChryslerSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: January 2000(GERMANY) When one of Europe’s leading automobile manufacturers needed a solution for moving graphics files from high-end CAD/CAM workstations to desktop PCs, Reinhard Schmaderer head of IT at DaimlerChrysler’s transport division, reached for a simple yet highly effective solution, WS_FTP from Ipswitch Inc.”There has always been […]

Company: FourFrontCustomer: CQRSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: January 1999CQR Security Components, based on the Wirral in Cheshire, produces plastic injection moulding solutions and toolmaking expertise mainly for the domestic and business security market. Alongside its main product lines it also manufactures power cables and point of sale solutions for the retail sector. Employing 185 people at […]

Company: PlatformCustomer: EricssonSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: January 2000Large clusters of network servers can be utilised very efficiently with the help of a workload management system. With such a system, jobs are distributed so that all the servers are utilised optimally and with a minimum of wasted time. Ericsson uses the workload management system called Load […]

Company: SoftBrands HospitalityCustomer: Lancaster LodgeSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: August 2002Robert White, owner of a luxury guesthouse set in idyllic surroundings in Cork wanted to ensure that rooms remained filled, customers remained happy and staff remained motivated. His current property management software solution was falling short of achieving all of this so he went in search […]

Company: Dmicros.comCustomer: Crown CasinoSubmitted by: Berkeley PRBased in Melbourne, Australia, the Crown Entertainment Complex, spanning 500,000 square metres, combines world-class 500 room hotel, convention, restaurant, retail entertainment and gaming facilities including 350 gaming tables and 2,500 slot machines.The largest gaming facility in the Southern Hemisphere, the complex boasts one of the most innovative and technologically […]

Company: DocumationCustomer: ABPSubmitted by: DocumationDate: August 2000The Port of Southampton is the UK’s leading cruise port and home for Cunard’s flagship QE2 and P&O Cruise ships the Aurora, Oriana, Victoria and Arcadia. The port is one of the largest and most diverse in Europe and a prominent part of the Associated British Ports (ABP) Group. […]

Company: VistormCustomer: travelstore.comSubmitted by: KaizoDate: October 2000E-commerce is not just about building a web site. Core business software must be supported by complex and highly effective Internet infrastructure if companies are to create a suitable purchasing environment for their customers. travelstore.com has developed unique travel reservation software to provide a sophisticated service for business over […]

Company: PlatformCustomer: AMDSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: August 2000The US-based AMD team, who made the world’s fastest PC processor a reality, has announced that Platform Computing’s resource management solution LSF has been instrumental in the creation of one of the world’s most sophisticated engineering achievements ­­- the development of the 1GHz AMD Athlon processor.Announced on March […]

Company: SRACCustomer: GenetronicsSubmitted by: SRACDate: June 2001(USA) Chemotherapy can be a very effective treatment for many types of cancers. However, the cell membrane that surrounds each cancer cell makes it difficult for some chemotherapeutic agents to penetrate inside and cause cell death. In addition, physicians infuse these agents throughout the body—system wide—in high concentrations. Unfortunately, […]

Company: ProtekCustomer: BUPASubmitted by: ProtekDate: October 2002In a sector where security and confidentiality is paramount, leading medical provider BUPA has called upon Protek to develop a security solution that will guarantee safe transmission of sensitive data between doctors, consultants and hospitals.Since the 4th century BC, when the Hippocratic Oath was first created, medical practitioners have […]

Company: StaffwareCustomer: NHS Pensions AgencySubmitted by: Spreckley PartnersAn extensive programme of internal restructuring and workflow implementation has, within only a few weeks of a rollout, already made the NHS Pension Agency, significantly more efficient in terms of processing 150,000 transactions each year. The Need For Change In 1992 the NHS Pensions Agency, one of a […]

Company: CapscanCustomer: NYEDSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: Summer 1998North Yorkshire Emergency Doctors (NYED) is a co-operative of General Practitioners who have joined together to handle out of hours emergencies. Born out of the consolidation of the Yorkshire Medical Practitioners Bureau and the York Doctors Co-op, the Health Authorities fund 20% of the operation, while the remainder […]

Company: KMSCustomer: NETgSubmitted by: The itpr PartnershipDeskartes, the intelligent knowledge management software from KMS, has helped leading global e-Learning specialist NETg to turn its vision of just-in-time learning into a reality.One of the major attractions of e-Learning has always been the prospect that it will enable “just-in-time” learning: training or education delivered in small chunks […]

Company: NoeticaCustomer: Healthcall Business CommunicationsSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: April 2000Healthcall Business Communications based in Aberdeen, part of the country’s leading provider of an extensive range of commercial support services, has adopted Noetica’s Synthesys call centre system. Synthesys provides the organisation with a call centre software platform that allows rapid script building by non-technical professionals, call […]

Company: APICustomer: Carnegie InstitutionSubmitted by: The Opus Group(USA) In the quest to understand the origins of the planets and how life began, scientists devise highly theoretical mathematical models that attempt to predict real-world phenomena. Calculations such as these are an example of high-performance technical computing (HPTC), that strains even the most powerful supercomputers. Flexing technology […]

Company: NoeticaCustomer: City of Sunderland CollegeSubmitted by: MCC InternationalDate: April 2001City of Sunderland College have been successfully using Noetica’s Synthesys technology since April 1999, in its call centre, mobile call centre and drop-in centre as part of an NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) in Processing Information using Telecommunications and facilitating the day to day running of […]

Company: DatastreamCustomer: Queen’s Medical CentreWith over 6000 employees, 1200 beds and 25 operating theatres spread across 190,000 square metres of floorspace, the Queen’s Medical Centre is one of the largest, purpose-built teaching hospitals in Europe. It consists of a number of departments including University Hospital, the University of Nottingham Medical School and the Nottingham School […]