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Fiserv CBS Worldwide is a unit of Fiserv, Inc. (Nasdaq: FISV), a Fortune 500 company that reported $4.1 billion in total revenues for 2005 and serves more than 17,000 clients in 66 countries around the world. Fiserv CBS Worldwide delivers end-to-end business and technology solutions for retail financial organizations, consumer finance institutions and credit unions throughout Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States. Through its offices in the USA, UK, Poland, Singapore, Australia, China, Indonesia, Colombia and Costa Rica, Fiserv CBS Worldwide enables almost 300 financial institutions to deliver integrated solutions for managing the entire customer lifecycle from core banking to multi-channel customer contact and data warehousing. more... |
Largest UK wholesaler of books to retail, internet and library sectors.
The ISBN product identifier used in the publishing industry since the 70’s is being expanded into a full 13 digit EAN13 from 1/1/2007. The field therefore needed to be expanded in millions of lines of RPG, DDS, displays and report.
Similar expansion projects also carried out for 6 other legacy fields which were no longer adequate to support the increase volume of business.
Improve the speed of analysis for ongoing projects through use of X-Analysis. more... |
MAPICS has always prided itself upon searching out the best tools to help streamline the process of designing, creating, testing documenting and delivering some of the finest applications in the ERP Software market. Over the past few years we have adopted some outsourcing of our product development and support areas. It was key for us to be able to have a consistent, fast and flexible tool that can be used by everyone within our organization and our outsourcing partner. more... |
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Davies Turner was founded in 1870, to ship the belongings of Victorian adventurers to the farthest corners of the world. Even today, we remain a family owned and managed group, offering an award winning and diverse portfolio of international surface and air transport services world wide through three distinct operating businesses, with 25 offices throughout the UK, as well as in Dublin and Paris. We have approximately 700 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 150 Million Euro. more... |
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Seam us Quinn, editor of News/400.uk, conducted the following interview with Gary Metherell of St Paul Insurances on the completion of their Year 2000 programme.
The St Paul is a group of insurance companies that specializes in property-liability and life insurance cover as well as reinsurance products and services worldwide. The American Fortune 500 company was founded in Minnesota in 1853. One of the company's divisions is St Paul International Underwriting which provides property and liability insurance worldwide through operations in domestic insurance markets and at Lloyd's of London, and serves multinationals through Global Accounts and Foreign Risk services. The division's UK office is based in Redhill, Surrey. more... |
The company is based in Paris and offers contract car leasing facilities around France and Europe. Dial Rent-a-Car was the first company to use Databorough's complete service to address the problem of the year 2000.
Their problem became pressing in 1995 simply because many of their contracts were for five years and they would be experiencing "millennium" problems the following year as a result. Jean-Marc Jouniaux, the Senior Project Manager explains the situation:
"We needed the lowest-cost solution available because the company had made no decision on the long-term computing strategy for the future. At the same time we needed a fast solution because our long-term contracts were normally for five years and we were in danger of failing to manage the business." more... |
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Doubleday operates book and music clubs with well over 500,000 members in Australia and New Zealand. It is a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a German media group with interests in book clubs, publishing, music, printing, film, television and radio. Doubleday embarked on a number of challenges. Firstly to transport all of its COBOL applications on the current Prime system to an IBM AS/400, and secondly to rewrite and enhance the current system using a CASE tool. KAZ Computer services, an IBM business partner and the X-Analysis distributor for Australia, was contracted to support Doubleday in the conversion, documentation and re-engineering of its systems. more... |
Scola is the French subsidiary of DANFOSS GROUP and has gained worldwide recognition as a leading supplier of taps, valves and other fittings necessary to the control of moving fluids. The whole of Scola's production is based on Chalon sur Saone and Crissey in Burgundy and it is distributed through a worldwide network of subsidiaries and distributors - nearly 70% of the 200 MF turnover is exported out of France. Scola employs 200 people in the world, of which 140 work in Chalon and Crissey.
Scola chose X-Analysis to help them maintain legacy software and to provide them with tools for managing new systems development. This was an essential part of its ISO 9001 program, and enabled them to integrate new DB/2 and Client/Server applications onto legacy AS/400 systems. more... |
Atlas Copco is a Swedish company that specializes in manufacturing compressors, power tools and construction and mining tools. Because their applications are installed in over 60 Atlas Copco companies worldwide - each of which has its own local applications and interfaces - sufficient time was needed to roll out the updated apps to each sales office, which would then require time to apply local changes to their core systems.
Clearly, Atlas Copco's core millennium compliancy was needed in a hurry.
For several years, Atlas Copco had been relying on Datasolve Systems International, in Kent, England, to assist in the support and development of its BPCS system. A study team from Atlas Copco and Datasolve chose Databorough's X-2000 product. more... |
