Case Studies
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Heading Towards Better Sales Management: Nilkamal
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingNilkamal’s attempt to boost the effectiveness of its sales people with Salesforce was being stymied by an inability to efficiently link the SaaS-CRM tool with Nilkamal’s ERP. Could IT find a way?
IBM BladeCenter Success Stories
A case study on Servers / Blades in ServicesIBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the convergence journey. By simplifying through integration—or converging—the datacenter with a BladeCenter solution, you can see immediate and demonstrable ROI benefits while gaining data center space, ease of management, performance, scalability, and investment protection. Download this brochure to know how clients who have implemented IBM BladeCenter x86 processor-based servers tasted success in their ventures.
Sponsored by IBM
Fleetwood Enterprises Realises the Value of Its IT Team During An Acquisition
A case study on Applications in ManufacturingNot until filing bankruptcy papers and trying to sell off parts of the company did Fleetwood Enterprises realize the value of its IT group. Here’s how its CIO ensured that it did.
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Perfetti Savors the Success of VDI
A case study on Desktop Virtualization / VDI in ManufacturingIt's expensive, it's bandwidth intensive, and it meets user resistance. That's what you, like most of your peer, probably think of VDI. But the IT head of Perfetti Van Melle doesn't agree.
ERP-BI Helped Blue Star Seal Off Revenue Leakages
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingMoving ERPs can be one of a CIO’s most intractable problems. How Blue Star’s IT leader handled it.
Monitoring tool helps Sony Italia improve security at low cost
A case study on Security in ManufacturingThe Italian Government recently passed a legislation aimed at regulating the corporate use of personal data. To meet the requirement of the new regulation, Sony Italia needed the ability to maintain auditable records of all logins to systems containing personal data. It required a low cost solution which can be quickly deployed before the deadline for compliance. Sony Italia selected the Novell Sentinel Log Manager solution, which gave them the ability to monitor activities of all servers and routers on its network, with the help of one-click reporting.
Sponsored by Novell
Viraj Steel Saves 25 Percent of Salary Payouts with a Workforce Management Solution
A case study on Workload Automation in ManufacturingIt took 58 people to keep attendance of Viraj Steel’s 7,000-strong workforce, and it still faced revenue leakages. So, IT stepped in with a workforce management system.
Forbes Marshall's CIO on Managing End-users and Vendors Effectively
A case study on Virtualization in ManufacturingAll the CIO of Forbes Marshall, Sharat Airani wanted was to virtualize. He didn't know that he would have to battle user resistance and vendor defiance. Not that it stopped him.
Voltas' Mobile App Makes Any Phone Smart
A case study on Wireless / WiFi / WiMAX in ManufacturingThe Rs 10,000 crore Voltas needed a mobile app for service engineers to collect data from the company's servers. Distributing preloaded smartphones was prohibitive. A device agnostic mobile app helped them shorten service cycle times by 50 percent.
Boeing Reduces Annual Labor Costs by $879K Using Application Performance Management
A case study on Applications in ManufacturingWith close to 12,000 jetliners in service currently, Boeing's aircraft constitute 75% of the world's commercial fleet. The company needs to provide long-term support till the end of life for each plane. To ease the service process, the manufacturer was looking to empower application teams to take ownership of system availability and performance. The solution came in form of building application availability Center of Excellence based on an Application Performance Management (APM) solutions. This approach enabled as few as six employees to support 160 applications. Other operational benefits include labor cost savings of $878,641 annually and reducing mean time to resolution from 10.02 to 1.03 hours.
Sponsored by HP
Eveready Boosts Forecast Accuracy with a Simple Mobile App
A case study on Smartphones / Handhelds in ManufacturingEveready struggled to keep a tab on its inventory across 3.3 million retail outlets. Read how a mobile app linked its sales force and distributors to the HQ and helped improve forecast accuracy and fulfill demands on time with lean inventory.
Sheela Foam Boosts Bottomline with an SMS Solution
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingThe Rs 900-crore Sheela Foam was struggling to focus on its most important business objective: improving profit margins. Read how India’s largest mattress manufacturer used SMS to share reports and boost its bottomline.
Asian Paints Redefines Customer Interaction
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: Choksi and his team set up a central order processing service (COPS), which leverages recent improvements in telephony technologies. To create COPS, Choksi also leveraged the company's investment in SAP.
HDFC SL Achieves Better IT Governance & Compliance while Reducing IT Unit Cost
A case study on Security in TelecomHDFC Standard Life (HDFC SL) needed to maintain a secure framework in an increasingly complex business environment and keep abreast with the latest security patches and updates. It faced the challenge of efficiently installing and maintaining desktop software with a tight budget. The company's burgeoning and disparate IT system added to the complexity. The implementation of LANDesk Management Suite and Security Suite delivered a comprehensive, integrated, secure management solution that empowered HDFC SL's IT administrators and security team to be more efficient and secure, and reduce costs.
Sponsored by LanDesk
VST Triumphs with In-House ERP, Makes it Profitable Too
A case study on ERP in ManufacturingCIO 100 Winner: Ratnakar Nemani developed a payroll module which could be integrated with ERP as a part of his SAP consulting services business. The company, which has first focused on bringing home its ERP, now, offers its SAP expertise to other companies.
