SunTrust Bank www.suntrust.com
Configuration Policy Review Project
Project Lead: Tim Baker, Manager, Network Management and Support
Project Description: SunTrust launched a configuration policy review initiative to improve customer support, comply with internal audit requests, consolidate device management across disparate datacenters, and deliver increased cost savings to the financial holdings company's bottom line. The project, based on network automation software from HP (formerly Opsware), affected 6,600 network devices and three datacenters; facilitated the provisioning of a new datacenter in three hours, as opposed to four days; and resulted in $300,000 savings.
Industry: Financial Services

Sybase www.sybase.com
Global, Closed-Loop Marketing System
Project Lead: Jackie Kiley, Director, Corporate Marketing
Project Description: Sybase launched a closed-loop marketing system initiative in an effort to produced more accurately scored, quality sales leads. The project integrated Eloqua Conversion Suite, Salesforce.com, and the company's own Business Intelligence warehouse, Web interactions and portal, and privacy database. The system, for which new processes, business rules, and data flow were constructed, has been implemented to 65 users in 22 countries.
Industry: Technology

Tata Consultancy Services www.tcs.com
Integrated Enterprise Portal and Enterprise Application Systems
Project Lead: Alok Kumar, Vice President & Global Head - Internal IT
Project Description: Project Ultimatix integrates 50 core applications to streamline operations and internal collaboration for more than 700 business processes. The result is a unified network and method for deploying all internal processes, including HR, finance, and project management. Based on the ERP suite, Ultimatix includes custom applications based on J2EE using rule engines, workflow services, and SOA. Systems are deployed on a virtualized server infrastructure.
Industry: Services

Team Transport www.teamtransport.net
Tracking and Efficiency Improvements
Project Lead: Jennifer Michna, Vice President of Finance
Project Description: Team Transport rolled out a mobile dispatch solution to its team of 60 truck drivers, who had previously been required to pick up paperwork for every job at the company's central location. The solution required Team Transport's IT team to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Actsoft's Comet Tracker GPS tracking tool, and Compcare dispatching software. Equipped with BlackBerry 7520 devices, drivers print paperwork using a Bluetooth printer and update tracking logs on the go.
Industry: Distribution

Toshiba America Electronic Components www.toshiba.com/taec
TAEC Business Intelligence System
Project Lead: Malcolm Wood, Director, Business Analysis, Strategic Planning
Project Description: Toshiba America Electronic Components initiated a strategic redesign of its entire BI system, partnering with industry leaders to develop an end-to-end solution. To achieve an integrated solution, Business Objects and Percentix, a Hyperion consulting firm, worked with IT teams from TAEC and Toshiba Semiconductor Japan to design a new reporting solution integrating Hyperion BPM tools with Business Objects enterprise reporting and performance management tools, incorporating data from Oracle 11i applications with other business data sources.
Industry: Technology

Transplace www.transplace.com
Server Virtualization
Project Lead: Vince Biddlecombe, Chief Technology Officer
Project Description: In anticipation of significant operational growth, the transportation management services company launched a server virtualization initiative, rolling out VMware on Sun servers to support Oracle databases and J2EE applications on BEA's WebLogic Web server. Consolidating 120 server instances onto 30 machines, the company also beefed up its network I/O capabilities to stave off network traffic congestion, installing multiple NICs, and bulked up its SAN storage environment to provide sufficient fail-over capacity.
Industry: Distribution