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Featured Events and Content from Magenic
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Case Study: Zurich in North America Anticipates U.S.$25 Million Gain with SQL Server 2005 Solution
“Replication that used to take an hour or more in the field is now completed in two or three minutes, with SQL Server 2005.” Bruce Enerson, Database Administrator, Zurich
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Webinar: Creating The Connected Enterprise: Using Microsoft BizTalk to Improve Your Operational Performance
During this webinar you’ll discover how BizTalk:
• connects applications,
• streamlines B2B transactions,
• supports security methods,
• reduces development costs, and
• outperforms traditional EAI tools
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Wine.com Case Study: Magenic Helps Online Retailer Re-Architect Itself to Support Growth
"We knew that the next generation of Microsoft technology and tools would allow developers to focus on solving business issues instead of the underlying system services." - Geoffrey Smalling, Vice President of IT
- Sipex Case Study: Sipex Had to Get It Right the First Time
With such a “strategic, high-exposure project” nothing could be left to chance. Sipex needed the best project methodology and SharePoint expertise available.
- W.A. Wilde Case Study: Content Management With SharePoint®
Magenic helped The W.A. Wilde Company use the collaborative power of Microsoft® Office SharePoint® 2007 to implement a streamlined content management system that provides an improved customer experience, enhances security, and enables account managers to drive increased sales.
- Vehicle Appraisal System Case Study: Wireless-Enabled Inventory Application Helps Auto Dealers Turn Profit on Used Vehicles
Magenic helped this company create a powerful yet simple application that quickly won over the retail automobile industry. The powerful but low-cost solution is easy to implement and doesn’t require dealers and salespeople to change the way they work.
- Union Pacific Railroad Case Study: Automated Real-Time Weather Alert System Reduces Derailments, Saves Millions of Dollars
Magenic and technology partner Meteorlogix created a system that feeds real-time data on threatening weather to train dispatchers in 23 states, enabling them to make fast decisions to stop or delay trains. Economic losses from weather-related mishaps have been slashed. “The quick, automated alert dissemination process has already saved us millions of dollars.” - Kevin Crowe, Union Pacific Railroad
- Trucking Dispatch Firm Case Study: .NET Application Setting Standard for Technology Innovation in Logistics Industry
This logistics industry leader saw a cost savings opportunity: Instead of giving customers a certain number of trucks per day for them to dispatch at will, they proposed handling the dispatching for their customers. If they knew where their customers’ loads were going, they could send one truck that had just delivered a load to pick up another nearby load instead of sending it back empty.
- Retail Beauty Products Chain Case Study: In Rescued Project, Solution Delivers Performance and Flexibility While Retaining Familiar User Interface
This industry leader had a store-based kiosk application crafted from several different vendor technologies, but it never got beyond a slow and buggy prototype. Magenic and Microsoft came to the rescue with a solution that is fast, bug-free, and preserves important features of the prototype, including its user interface.
- Receivables Management Firm Case Study: Replacing three systems with one, up-to-date system leads to increased operational efficiency
This firm now enjoys huge cost savings from reduced licensing fees, as well as increased operational efficiency from more effective use of resources and decreased training time.
- Payment Solutions Firm Case Study: Support System Monitors Pilot Programs in Real-Time with No Impact on Production Systems
“We needed to build a monitoring and reporting solution from the ground up that we could use to prove our business concepts as quickly and as inexpensively as possible. We were able to achieve this with the .NET Framework.” - Director of Authentication Development
- Health Data Services Firm Case Study: Developers Shift from Fixing Problems to Growing the Business
"Developer productivity was decreasing and the complexity of our applications was becoming unmanageable. We were spending more and more time trying to figure out how to fix problems and less and less time on writing new code. We needed a way to greatly enhance our productivity.” - CTO, Data Services Firm
- Human Resources Consulting Firm Case Study
This consulting firm is a global leader for HR and related financial advice and services. It and its affiliated companies provide a broad range of services in different aspects of human resource and investment management.
- INNfinity Hospitality Systems Case Study: Setting the Stage for Future Growth and Product Line Expansion with Custom Desktop Solution
“Magenic has the vision and the expertise to help us learn and expand our knowledge of technology. They have helped us architect an application that will stand the test of time. By following proven methodologies and architecture patterns we are building an extensible enterprise level application that will enable us to replace our existing product, reduce support costs and expand into vertical markets that previously had been unattainable.” - Beverly McCabe, Chief Information Officer
- Global Law Firm Case Study: Partner Evaluation System Improves Business
Managing the partner peer-review process at this giant law firm was difficult and time-consuming. Magenic’s solution used Microsoft® InfoPath and .NET Web Services to improve usability, reliability, security, and the firm’s overall profitability
- Global In Vitro Diagnostics Firm Case Study: Call Center and Field Service Management
The diagnostics division is huge and decentralized, making it a challenge to manage call center and field service in more than 100 countries. Magenic delivered an elegant Microsoft based solution to solve the problem.
- Electric Power Producer Case Study: Project Rescued Based on SharePoint 2003 and Custom .NET Functionality
A contractor claimed it knew Microsoft SharePoint but got in over its head and had to abandon the project. Magenic rescued the project with its unparalleled Microsoft technology expertise.
- AgriBusiness Leader Case Study: Improved Data Management Yields R&D Leap Forward
This worldwide agribusiness leader gains a 10-year advancement in R&D with a new database application, leveraging a Microsoft-based solution. Key researchers can do advanced analysis without hand-loading data and easily share insights with key decision-makers. By consolidating information from disparate database systems, this solution provides better information at 25 percent of the cost required to build a new data collection and reporting system.
- BioPharm Company Case Study: Supply Chain Management Application Manages Last Day of Shipment and Excess Inventory for Interferon Drugs
The biopharmaceutical company needed a better way to link inventory levels with drug expiration dates to avoid excess inventory. Magenic built a custom application that not only reduces their excess inventory but provides valuable reporting capabilities giving them more control in managing their supply chain.
- Major Food Manufacturer Case Study: Improved Analysis of Promotional Spending Yields Better Decisions
Food companies pay huge sums to retailers to fund sales and promotions. Keeping track of all that money can prove too much for companies.
- Major National Retailer Case Study: Innovative Data Analysis Techniques Lead to Increased Share of Wallet for Retailer
One of the nation’s most innovative and successful retailers is staking its continued growth on one-to-one customer marketing. The technique involves analyzing guest purchasing patterns to develop campaigns that lock in a larger share of their expenditures. The company made a good start in implementing this system by assembling a huge database of customer information, but eventually the retailer needed more effective ways to access and understand the data.
- Waste Mgmt Firm Case Study: New reporting engine reduces development and maintenance costs and provides flexibility in accessing and analyzing data
Cumbersome and time consuming reporting was limiting the access of company and customer data for this rapidly growing company. The dynamic features of Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 allowed this company to dramatically improve the timeliness and accuracy of their information.
- Nationwide Market Leader Case Study: Reporting Services Allows for Consistent View of Enterprise Information
This nationwide market leader is implementing an enterprise-reporting portal that is low cost and provides a consistent reporting paradigm throughout their entire organization. Although easy to use and customize, the solution provides a sophisticated way of rolling up and viewing their financial information.
- Real Estate Investment Unit Case Study: Sophisticated Analysis of Investment Portfolios Yields Increased Returns
This company’s real estate investment unit didn’t know where it stood financially until it compiled and analyzed monthly reports from dozens of different third-party asset managers. This labor-intensive process took weeks. Magenic developed a system that checks reports for errors and consistencies and compiles a standard report automatically. The result is faster and better reporting and analysis and a superior rate of investment return.
- National Fast Food Chain Case Study: Extracting POS Data Nightly from Over 2,000 Locations to Solve a Reporting Problem
This national fast food chain was interested in expanding its data warehouse to include daily POS item-level transactions from its 2,000-plus locations. This type of information is critical to marketing and product development executives in order to customize products and offerings to its customers by region or store. This organization also wanted a deeper understanding of seasonal buying patterns of their customers.
- Webcast: Top Application Development Trends
During the past 20 years it amazing how much has changed in application development, but more amazingly how much hasn't.
But technology today looks nothing like technology decades ago. So what is changing? Learn about some of the top trends in software development that are driving transformation..
- Maximize Business Potential by Outsourcing Application Management
The driving force in today’s commerce market is business application systems. Companies rely on these applications to manage their markets, drive their operations, maintain performance and solidify customer relationships. With rapidly growing competition in the IT industry, companies are increasingly outsourcing their application maintenance. The Magenic Delivery Center™ offers businesses the best application outsourcing available.
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