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BAT Belgium www.bat.com
Global Information Management
Project Lead: Koen Dehaen, Business Systems Manager
Project Description: Using software from Business Objects and Kalido, British American Tobacco Belgium created a unified BI platform in the wake of its 2005 merger with STC. Although previously sister companies, the two tobacco manufacturers used multiple custom-built data warehouses to monitor sales performance, pulling in data from differing sources to fuel significantly different SAP instances. The combined BI platform replaces the separate data warehouses with a single Kalido-based data warehouse, providing business executives with consistent, consolidated, up-to-date sales performance and market share data.

Del Monte Foods www.delmonte.com
Formula Lifecycle Management
Project Lead: Jonathan Wynn, Manager - Advanced Technology and Collaborative Services
Project Description: To better incorporate customer feedback and streamline the execution of change requests, Del Monte revamped its Pet Products formula change process, implementing SharePoint Server, InfoPath, and Excel 2007. The customized solution enables information sharing and document collaboration among Pet Products team members and provides a library for storing, organizing, managing, and archiving formulas and related change process documents.

Golder Associates www.golder.com
Global Collaboration Initiative
Project Lead: Joe Potegal, Senior Network Engineer
Project Description: Golder Associates launched a real-time collaboration initiative for more than 5,500 employees, centered on SharePoint and integrating document collaboration, Exchange, Veritas NetBackup, and AutoCAD. To keep the network from bogging down across its 150-plus offices, the group installed Riverbed WAN optimization technology. Future plans include the rollout of Microsoft Systems Management Server.

Johnson Controls www.johnsoncontrols.com
Network Consolidation Due to Acquisition
Project Lead: Steven Levanthal, Senior Network Monitoring Tools Engineer
Project Description: Johnson Controls IT migrated dozens of applications to its already large, complex MPLS WAN in the wake of the company's acquisition of York International. Tapping NetScout deep-packet analysis capabilities, the team identified and resolved poor performance due to TCP Window Sizing issues and overwhelmed switches, as well as file transfer issues and authentication problems, to ensure a smooth transition for the now 146,000-person company.

Kennametal www.kennametal.com
Kennametal IT Services Migration for "Yankee" Acquisition
Project Lead: Larry Clawson, Global Business Integration Manager
Project Description: Establishing a best-practices approach to future acquisition migration management, the Kennametal IT group completed a three-site migration -- including the installation of new hardware and software for security, asset management, and office productivity -- in less than 100 days.

Kennametal www.kennametal.com
Kennametal Industrial Products Group - Enterprise Integration
Project Lead: Thomas F. McKee, Jr., Director IT, Business Systems & Information
Project Description: This 12-month project to standardize and migrate the four legacy ERP systems of Kennametal's Industrial Products Group to the company's SAP global business and information management system included more than 320 users spread across 13 sites. The conversion is expected to save more than $1 million annually, as well as $7 million in inventory reduction in the first year.

Monsanto Co. www.monsanto.com
Improving Customer Order Accuracy and Predictability
Project Lead: Ann Ripp, IT U.S. Project Management Lead
Project Description: This agricultural product provider's Go-Ag supply-chain system is a homegrown service-oriented integration of several custom supply/demand applications and SAP R/3. Fine-tuned with custom Java code in areas where the XML mapping performance of webMethods Integration Server proved inefficient, the system aligns Monsanto's seed supply with proven grower demand by surfacing purchasing data six to nine months earlier than had the company's previous architecture.