TransUnion www.transunion.com
Advanced Analytics Project
Project Lead: Peter Hoversten, CIO
Project Description: Faced with a $2 million investment to increase capacity or a potentially risky overhaul, TransUnion rebuilt its existing mainframe system, establishing an ETL (extract, transform, load) tool to process approximately 3TB of data in mainframe-based data sets and forward it along to Sybase IQ for loading. The system reduces complex query results by 83 percent, saving TransUnion millions of dollars by eliminating the need for overflow CPUs in an effort to maintain customer service level agreements.
Industry: Financial Services

U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems www.eis.army.mil
IT Infrastructure Modernization
Project Lead: Hari Bezwada, Director of the Information Technology Systems Project Office
Project Description: Information Technology Systems completed several upgrades at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to provide state-of-the-art communication services for the soldiers in long-term care at the hospital's medical-hold residences. The upgrades involved implementing iMac desktops (with Internet access), phone service, and cable TV service in all 700 medical-hold rooms at Walter Reed. ITS also built a separate LAN to support the new services without impacting Walter Reed's existing production network.
Industry: Government

U.S. Joint Forces Command www.jfcom.mil
Information Sharing Exchange to Counter IEDs
Project Lead: James O. Barclay, Director, Joint Center for Operational Analysis
Project Description: The Knowledge and Information Fusion Exchange provides direct support to warfighters, coalition partners, and the R&D community to counter the IED (Improvised Explosive Device) threat. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SQL Server provide the KnIFE framework for collaborating, content provisioning, visualization, BI, and communications. The initiative makes databases and information portals on IED threats available to a range of military users, including warfighters with little or no connectivity.
Industry: Government

Univé Verzekeringen www.unive.nl
Reliable SOA for Customer Service Advantage
Project Lead: Bob Alberts, SOA Project Manager
Project Description: Univé -- a Dutch, not-for-profit, cooperative insurance company -- launched an SOA initiative to automate its back-office workflow and insurance-quotation applications. Tapping the .Net Framework, Univé has implemented 74 .Net Web services with 177 end points to date. The initiative also includes Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and AmberPoint SOA Management System. As a result of this project, 60 percent of all new insurance policies are now automatically registered to the organization's mainframe.
Industry: Insurance

UPS www.ups.com
Fully Integrated Online Customer Request Service
Project Lead: Cathy Callagee, Vice President, Information Services
Project Description: UPS Delivery Intercept is an automated service that enables shippers to intercept and reroute packages before they are delivered. The Web-enabled service leverages existing UPS-developed systems used in the company's small package delivery business and customer-facing systems. A wide array of technologies was tapped to complete the project, including server virtualization and messaging middleware. The complete implementation affected workstations and servers in 1,000 buildings and required functional changes to the 60,000 mobile devices these buildings deploy each day.
Industry: Distribution

USFoodservice www.usfoodservice.com
Project Streamline: Mobile Sales Force Automation
Project Lead: Paul Schwartz, Senior Vice President, Infrastructure
Project Description: Project Streamline provides a standard computing infrastructure for a mobile sales force of 5,000 territory managers in more than 70 locations. The suite includes roaming VPN, full access to corporate systems, efficient data transport, policy-based security, and standardized office tools, including e-mail, backup, and document management.
Industry: Hospitality