Case Studies/Best Practices


Buy-and-Build E-Procurement Solution

An e-business procurement solution at office-products company Corporate Express results in smooth online transactions for $4 million worth of products a day.

Top Trends in Enterprise Computing

Looking for some new ways that IT departments have made smash hits to their companies' bottom lines? No action super-heroes, no razzle-dazzle special effects here—just real-world projects that drew rave reviews.

Air Force Consolidates Network

Server consolidation in the U.S. Air Force is reducing the sheer number of servers, increasing security, and returning hoards of network admins to their real jobs.

San Diego "Insources" for Efficiency

The city of San Diego's goal is to build private sector accountability and efficiency into the public sector, including IT integration projects.

AdvanceMed Corp. Manages Business-Critical Storage Operations with Fujitsu

To a greater degree than most companies, the business success of Reston, Va.-based AdvanceMed is directly linked to the smooth operation of its storage infrastructure.

Stop and Go Migration

Migrating to Windows 2000 Active Directory was taking the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College much longer than expected. A migration tool from Quest Software Inc. made all the difference.

Replication Acceleration

Hydrite Chemical needed to reduce ERP data replication for its sales force. Stampede Technologies' TurboGold 4.2 helped the IT staff reduce bandwidth costs, shorten replication time and improve data accuracy.



Getting IT Out of the Loop

Office Depot needed to massage sales data for employee bonuses, with minimal IT involvement.

Choosing the Portal View

Managing its own internal portal project, Perficient Inc. came away with a deep understanding of the ins—and outs—of portals.

Network Management Cafeteria-Style

The Jewish Home and Hospital of N.Y. uses an assortment of products from a variety of companies to manage its network.

Defending the Faith

A hardened operating systems brings security to the Bahá‘í International Community's Web site.

Defending the Faith

A hardened operating systems brings security to the Bahá‘í International Community's Web site.

Network Management Cafeteria-Style

The Jewish Home and Hospital of N.Y. uses an assortment of products from a variety of companies to manage its network.

Power Play at City Hall

The City of Minneapolis turns to Unisys Corp. for its solution to update its infrastructure

Bandwidth Bloodhound

Hold Brothers, a trading company, tracks down bandwidth usage to contain skyrocketing costs.

Bandwidth Bloodhounds

Hold Brothers, a trading company, tracks down bandwidth usage to contain skyrocketing costs.

Power Play at City Hall

The City of Minneapolis turns to Unisys Corp. for its solution to updating its infrastructure.

Blending Computers and Academics

Though the two roles might seem to have very little in common, Lew Temares has been able to leverage his CIO experience and contacts to sharpen the engineering school's curriculum and, occasionally, add to its resources. Moreover, the dual role partly reflects his three decades of IT work in academic environments.

Akamai Pushes the InfoEdge

Akamai uses massive parallelism to reach end users globally.

Sprint Mines Marketing Gold

Sprint's new data mining system yields rich stores of customer information.