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Danish securities and settlement center consolidates with Candle’s enterprise management solutions Candle Corp. |
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Vaerdipapercentralen, Denmark’s industry-backed utility for managing financial institutions, began deploying critical applications on Windows NT servers in addition to its mainframe. The utility installed Candle performance and availability management products to monitor the distributed environment and interact with the MVS, CICS and DB2 systems already running. |
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URL: http://www.candle.com/aboutcandle/cases/danish.html... |
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Prudential finds integration is key to success InformationWeek |
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Acquisitions had left Prudential Insurance with a checkerboard of new and legacy information systems, all of which needed to be united to provide access across the entire company to complete customer and product information. As part of the effort, the company chose Level 8 Systems' Geneva Integration Broker middleware to allow notebook access to back-end data. (July 24, 1000) |
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URL: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printArticle?... |
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Elf boosts efficiency with server consolidation IBM |
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Elf Exploration is an outstanding example of a cost-effective S/390 solution, running new UNIX and traditional mainframe applications together. The oil company has recently installed an IBM S/390 Multiprise server--Elf evaluated a number of options and found that the S/390 option was less expensive than running a Unix server for its Unix and traditional applications. (July 1999) |
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URL: http://www.s390.ibm.com/customer/a23081el.html |
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ADP brokerage service boosts processing power with IBM CICS ADP Inc. |
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Imagine the processing power required to manage online stock trading transactions for a brokerage house or mutual fund company, multiply that by 1,350 companies, and you'll have an idea of the IT systems workload at ADP Brokerage Service Group. (March 1, 2000) |
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URL: http://bsg.adp.com/news/ADP&IBM.pdf |
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Case study: Chicago Board Options Exchange Amdahl |
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Striving for increased capacity without processing interruptions, the world's largest options marketplace, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, selected the Millenuim 2000C to run its trading floor. (June 21, 2000) |
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URL: http://www.amdahl.com/success/mm002988.pdf |
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Data center redundancy keeps benefits online Internet Week |
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This case study describes how Hewitt Associates, a human resources benefits provider, split its data center and Web-serving facility into two locations three miles apart to protect against disaster. (Nov. 15, 1999) |
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URL: http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/storage/pr... |
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Case study: The Harvard Educational Record System Software Development |
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Here's how the record system for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences is being rebuilt–-and changing from a late-1970s mainframe behemoth to a modern web-based, thin-client, multitier, distributed Java/CORBA architecture. (Jan. 1999) |
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URL: http://www.sdmagazine.com/breakrm/features/s991f4.s... |
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Land’s End implements data warehouse using industrial-strength DB2 on S/390 IBM |
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Land’s End decided on DB2 for OS/390 for its corporate data warehouse for several reasons: maturity, workload management, parallelism, training, reliability, and training support. |
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URL: http://www2.software.ibm.com/casestudies/swcs.nsf/c... |
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Success Stories IBM |
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Read about how the S/390 is working to help businesses maximize their information technology investments. These case studies from IBM cover businesses in banking and finance, distribution, e-business, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, and more. |
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URL: http://www.s390.ibm.com/customer/ |
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On the road with DB2 OLAP Server for OS/390 DB2 Magazine |
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J B Hunt Transportation Services Inc., the largest publicly held truckload carrier in the U.S., had to travel a bumpy road before it found an OLAP solution that allowed it to perform necessary data analysis without compromising scalability. (Summer 2000) |
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URL: http://www.db2mag.com/summer00/gonzales.shtml |
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AlliedSignal Aero learns from Java mistakes InternetWeek |
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Aircraft engine maker AlliedSignal Aerospace is combining two technologies--message-oriented middleware and Java--to simplify its computing architecture. (Sep. 17, 1999) |
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URL: http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/enterprise... |
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