Bell Mobility www.bell.ca
Solution for Direct Marketing Response Rates
Project Lead: John Walker, Associate Director of Customer Insights and Analysis
Project Description: Bell Mobility chose dfPower Studio from DataFlux, an end-user solution that gives both business analysts
and database administrators the ability to create, manage, and enforce data quality initiatives across the enterprise. With
dfPower Studio, Bell Mobility now creates custom data verification routines that have helped them to identify and eliminate
tens of thousands of duplicate prospect records while improving the quality of mailing and telemarketing lists.
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BT www.bt.com/index.jsp
End-to-End Customer Information Platform
Project Lead: Miriam O’Dowd, Business Manager, One IT Common Services and Components Program
Project Description: BT Global Services deployed a comprehensive customer service tool -- a BT-wide information hub -- for
BT's contact center agents. Titled Agora, it's the initiative within the Common Services and Components Program to develop
a strategic EIP (Enterprise Information Platform), the IT solution that will provide a single, consolidated, accurate view
of end-to-end global customer inventory data. Following the Google model, the large-scale infrastructure platform pools, profiles,
and integrates data from 15 disparate systems, eliminating problematic discrepancies.
Motorola www.motorola.com
Motorola: Enabling Rapid IT with SOA
Project Lead: Tom McMorris, Center of Excellence Lead -- Service-Oriented Architecture
Project Description: Selected AmberPoint as its SOA (service-oriented architecture) management vendor to help foster the rapid
growth and evolution of its SOA landscape. The SOA project required the integration of multiple solutions. AmberPoint communicates
bidirectionally with HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli for end-to-end management. Additionally, AmberPoint's end-point security integrates
with Forum Systems for enhanced Web services security. Several levels of integration were overcome. The first level of integration
was between the SOA Framework solution architecture. Motorola has a three-tiered architecture: registry, management, and security.
They are developed independently of one another. As a result, Motorola developed integrations either electronically or through
processes to provide the user with a simplified facade to deploy services. The second level of integration involves the development
of services that are reliable, have the potential for reuse, and have the probability for easy consumption through the application
of development and Web services standards. This integration process was created out of the complexity that most IDEs create
when generating WSDLs. The third and last integration point deals with the integration within the development lifecycle. One
of the chief concerns of many project and program managers was related to impacting project delivery dates. As a result, Motorola
has devised a process that minimally impacts the development lifecycle while maximizing the identification and development
of new business services.
WFI www.wfinet.com
Fiber-Grade Wireless Network Deployment
Project Lead: Nick DeKeyzer, Senior Project Manager
Project Description: WFI designed a Wi-Fi solution for the Westfield UTC Mall in San Diego and integrated it with the mall’s
IT network infrastructure. WFI selected ClearMesh Networks’ high-capacity, wireless optical mesh solution, which combines
fiber-grade service quality and capacity with integrated mesh-switching capability. The ClearMesh solution is comprised of
two products: the ClearMesh 300 node and the ClearMesh Management System. A Metro Grid deployment consists of ClearMesh 300
nodes roof-mounted on designated buildings in the mall. This integrated networking platform combines high-capacity Ethernet
switching and low-cost wireless optical transport with business-grade Ethernet service delivery interfaces. Using secure optical
transmission, the CM 300 distributes as much as 300Mbps of wire-speed, ultralow latency, and full-duplex service capacity.
This allows WFI to centrally manage various traffic overlays resulting from the mallwide Wi-Fi, point-of-sale, and surveillance
video applications at Westfield UTC. All this can be done from either the WFI Network Operations Center or from the Westfield
site using an authenticated operator-access GUI based on standard Java technology.
Wireless Evolution www.wirelessevolutions.com
Wireless Broadband Mesh Network: Military Community
Project Lead: Jim Harycki, President
Project Description: Rolled out a new wireless broadband Internet service to the residents of Gateway Center and Naval Training
Center communities in San Diego. Nearly 1,000 apartments will have access to the high-speed wireless Internet service as an
amenity provided throughout the two housing complexes. LMH worked with Wireless Evolutions, a fast-growing wireless communications
service provider based in Texas, which deployed 39 BelAir Networks wireless mesh access nodes in the two communities to provide
secure, reliable high-speed wireless access to the residents of the military housing communities. The ability of BelAir Networks
wireless mesh to support Voice over Wi-Fi and video will allow the support of future applications.
Xirrus www.xirrus.com
Delivering a Powerful Wi-Fi Enterprise Network
Project Lead: Dirk Gates, CEO and Founder
Project Description: Xirrus Wireless LAN Array enabled Semtech to intelligently deploy a cost-effective Wi-Fi solution that
maximizes Wi-Fi bandwidth and coverage.
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