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Company: Red Hat
Industry: Open source software
Geography: US – Raleigh, NC
Opportunity: Implement and build a reliable, high-performance platform using SOA to meet growing business and performance demands
Migration Path: Tomcat 5 to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle BPEL and, Mule ESB to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
Benefits: Established a reliable platform with zero unplanned downtime, reduced hardware costs by more than 50 percent, increased performance by more than 25 percent, and increased resource efficiency for the IT organization
“The JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio is the cornerstone in our middleware infrastructure and our IT architecture vision. We have laid the groundwork to establish a world class technology stack, largely based on the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.”
–Lee Congdon, Chief Information Officer, Red Hat.
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Spanish Employment Portal Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for key architecture deployment
Raleigh, NC– June 30, 2009 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.
Infojobs.net now fully leverages JBoss Application Platform 4.2.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its application servers, indexing subsystem and database servers. Established ten years ago, InfoJobs.net runs a high-traffic web portal and has experienced significant growth. More than 5,500 users register their curriculum vitae through the InfoJobs.net web portal each day. With over 100,000 employment vacancies listed, Infojobs.net must meet the high-volume demand required by its users. Because of Red Hat’s significant value and fast run-times the IT department at InfoJobs.net migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for all its environments and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for its web and satellite servers.
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Industry: Transportation
Geography: Singapore
Business Challenge: Provide an alternative channel for taxi booking to alleviate phone call booking overload during peak periods
Solution: Short Message Service (SMS) booking system developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam
Benefits: Allows customers to book a taxi anytime, anywhere using SMS in just 30 seconds, which means less waiting time for customers and more booking jobs for cab drivers
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Industry: Education
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To launch an extranet service that would be available to its external users of more than 35,000 examiners and moderators
Migration path: Proprietary, closed solution to a more cost-effective and flexible platform based on JBoss Enterprise Application platform
Solution:
Hardware – HP x86 based commodity servers
Software – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Alfresco ECM, Enterprise DB
Benefits: Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), including cost and efficiency savings of £250,000 per year, and freedom from vendor lock-in
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Company: MedQuist Inc.
Industry: Clinical Documentation Workflow Solutions
Geography: Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Business Challenge: Enabling a rapidly growing, high-volume, 24×7 business, through the creation of an agile and highly productive development environment for building and running mission-critical applications.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Migration Path: From many database centric Windows platform components towards a SOA enterprise architecture providing service orchestration, platform independence and loose coupling of coarse-grained application modules. The latter allows for an evolutionary approach to re-platforming of a very large enterprise system without a large up-front cost and significant business risk.
Benefits: A highly productive, flexible and robust application development environment that enables MedQuist to proficiently produce innovative functionality for customer-facing solutions and to quickly take advantage of newly acquired applications by efficiently integrating them into its DocQment Enterprise Platform.
“Our applications are mission critical and absolutely need to be available 24×7. Red Hat’s JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products just work, enabling us to focus on building industry-leading software, which in turn helps our customers reduce their costs and improve patient care.”
– Dan Garnett, Vice President of Product Development, MedQuist.
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Company: Sensei, Inc.
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: US
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and frameworks including; JBoss Enterprise Application Platforms, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and JBoss ESB, jBPM, Hibernate, Cache and RichFaces; all components of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Enterprise Portal Platforms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pentaho Business Intelligence, MySQL, and Alfresco.
Migration Path: Open source middleware projects from JBoss.org to JBoss Enterprise Middleware Solutions and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Benefits: Lowered infrastructure and development costs; more flexibility when deploying applications; greater scalability; enhanced standards and support.
“With a proprietary solution, trying to grow our product line would be painful, both in terms of man-hours and integrating additional software. But with the cost-effectiveness of JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we are able to reallocate resources to scale our I.T. infrastructure.”
-Tim Dion, Chief Information Officer, Sensei Inc.
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Company: Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Industry: Education
Geography: International
Business Challenge: Roll out new, competitively priced educational products and services more swiftly while cutting costs. Build applications upon a base of infrastructure software technology that would position ETS for evolution into cloud models.
Migration Path: SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware technologies
Hardware: Intel x86 systems
Benefits: Reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable and secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly. Easy transition of applications into cloud provider environments in the future.
“We performed extensive in-house performance testing, talked to industry analysts, and considered all other aspects of the operating system and application server, including the quality of support, market share, and the software and hardware ecosystem. Once we took all these things into consideration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss from Red Hat with support subscription was the obvious choice.”
– Harikumar Rajappan, enterprise IT architect for applications at ETS
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Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Slovenia
Business Challenge: Banka Koper chose to build its new online banking solution, Banka IN, on Red Hat’s open source platform to avoid vendor lock-in, enable in-house innovation, and because the Red Hat solution offered easy integration, greater efficiency, and better performance.
Migration Path: Proprietary Platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3, including JBoss Seam, Alfresco Content Management System, and IBM DB2.
Hardware: HP BladeSystem
Benefits: Reduced operational costs, and enabled easy integration, faster development time, and in-house innovation
“Red Hat’s open source platform is the right solution for Banka Koper. It is in line with our business strategy to become independent of any technology platform and allows us to develop our own solutions and stay at the forefront of technology innovation,”
-Mojca Plahuta, director of Information Technology Division, Banka Koper
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Company: Sherwin-Williams Company
Industry: Paint and Coatings
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: To develop and deploy functionally rich Web applications using a standards-based platform supported by a single vendor for both home office and field use
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Migration Path: HP/UX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Benefits: Improve time to market of mission-critical applications. Increase staff productivity and efficiency using JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Higher-quality applications.
“JBoss has been a great fit for solving our primary business and technical challenges. We’ve accelerated the process of getting developers trained and up to speed. We’ve managed to get our arms around a vast set of web technologies by limiting our scope while providing our business users with the applications they need to be successful.”
-Alan Flowers, manager of the Java-Web-Integration Services team at Sherwin-Williams
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SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS
BBP develops financial messaging applications that are offered to financial institutions on an in-house or service bureau basis for SWIFT, SIC, and other financial networks. BBP guarantees continuous interbank connection availability and 24×7 access to its IGTplus middleware. Given the sensitivity of the application and the underlying data, BBP required an application infrastructure that could meet its stringent requirements for security and availability. BBP chose Red Hat and Ingres technologies due to comprehensive functionality provided by the individual products as well as the fact that the products were pre-integrated, fully certified, tested, and tuned for performance.
This solution was also chosen because both Ingres and Red Hat are well known for providing 24×7 support and maintenance to enterprises around the world. Cost was an important factor as well. Deployed since 2003, the application provides software and services to hundreds of banks throughout Europe as well as other countries including the United States.
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Rivet Logic Helps New Gravity Venture Deploy the Application on Alfresco, JBoss, Ingres, and Red Hat
SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS
As Facebook seeks to expand beyond purely social networking, New Gravity Ventures enters the market with ConnectedWeddings.com, a Facebook application that offers an innovative and easier way to plan weddings. The new application enables couples anywhere to use Facebook, an iPhone or the Web to manage planning tasks and create a customized, professional looking wedding page-all for free.
The two most important criteria for the Facebook application were scalability and the ability to derive optimal value from the content and present it to consumers in unique ways. New Gravity Ventures also required a solution that would empower end-users with the tools they need to fully take advantage of the application’s social networking capability.
Rivet Logic chose Alfresco as the content management platform for ConnectedWeddings.com because of its ability to support content-rich applications. Rivet Logic deployed a solution based on an open source infrastructure stack that included the Alfresco content management platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and the Ingres Database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Hong Kong
Business Challenge: Rapid business growth and the expansion of its service portfolio made it necessary to replace website with an efficient financial information portal, and to leverage virtualization technology to reduce hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows and UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AP with integrated virtualization
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate
Hardware: Intel Xeon based servers
Services: Red Hat Consulting
Benefits: High-performance, flexible IT infrastructure delivered through the integrated virtualization technology in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 50-70% Reduction in software and hardware costs
“Previously, in the financial services industry, companies were forced to rely on proprietary vendors. We are using Red Hat because of our confidence in the company to meet our very high levels of availability, performance and security that are essential in our business. The use of Red Hat and JBoss has enabled us to save approximately 50-70% overall on the entire project costs and even more in annual costs.”
-Philip Choi, Head of Technology for Quam Limited
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Organization increases ability to handle mission-critical educational demands utilizing JBoss Enterprise Middleware
RALEIGH, NC – April 28, 2009 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Brazilian National Institute of Educational Research and Studies (Inep), has migrated its applications to a full suite of JBoss Enterprise Middleware technology, including the JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms. Since beginning its migration to JBoss solutions, Inep has increased scalability, performance and stability for its mission-critical applications.
Inep, a Federal Institution linked to the Education Ministry of Brazil (MEC), manages the data and results from educational studies, research and evaluations related to the Brazilian Educational System. It is also responsible for the National High School Brazilian Exam (ENEM), which had over one million online registrations in 2008. After regularly encountering IT issues that required reconfiguring Inep’s system, the organization decided that the performance and scalability of its complex IT architecture must be increased to better execute daily tasks.
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Company: North American Non-profit Medical Research Organization; Vizuri, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner
Industry: Healthcare: Biomedical Research and science education
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Aggregate critical information, reduce operational costs, and increase performance to internal and external users, and increase availability of research to a wider audience, through the use of a foundational portal platform.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (32-cpu), JBoss Rules (32-cpu), JBoss jBPM (32-cpu), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Alfresco ECM, Alfresco WCM
Benefits: The Red Hat and Vizuri partnership helped a non-profit medical research organization complete a side-by-side evaluation and selection process that compared the solution benefits of open source software to proprietary software. Through customer experiences, JBoss and Vizuri were able to outline to the customer that the cost savings provided by the selecting an open source solution would allow the customer to leverage Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.
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Company: EnerNOC
Industry: Energy
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Improving the efficiency of its demand-response network that helps manage energy supply and demand
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Benefits: Streamlined the complex workflows involved in aligning the needs of utilities/grid operators to avoid blackouts during peak energy-consumption times and the desire of energy users to generate revenues through better managing their energy use.
“It would be very difficult for us to compete successfully without jBPM. We could not deliver our solutions nearly as efficiently and cost-effectively in this extremely aggressive market without it.”
–Ed Kusnitz, lead platform engineer, EnerNOC
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Online bank selects JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for web applications
MILAN, ITALY, 10 February 2009 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IWBank, an organization focused on financial services and online banking, has selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and the JBoss Operations Network to improve the efficiency of its web-banking applications.
IWBank is committed to providing integrated online financial services that guarantee high efficiency, safety and transparency levels, in addition to offering competitive terms and excellent service to its customers. In late 2008, IWBank decided to extend its collaboration with Red Hat, which provides the bank with open source solutions, by adopting the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop its web applications.
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Company: Covad Communications Group Inc.
Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: San Jose, California
Opportunity: Transition from inflexible and costly proprietary middleware software and hardware to JBoss Enterprise Middleware to cut costs while speeding new broadband/VoIP products to market
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network
Hardware: x86 system
Benefits: Reduce costs by more than $500,000 annually in hardware and software support; enabled cost-effective modernization of service-oriented architecture (SOA); improved performance of existing systems; reduced time-to-market of new products.
“In the current challenging economic situation, it is all the more important for Covad to retain its edge in automated Operations Support Systems while reducing the software support costs. We needed to modernize our SOA and roll out new products, all the while doing a new software rollout every six weeks and maintaining 99.9% uptime. That’s why we love JBOSS – it allows us to do more with less”
- Unmesh Kulkarni, Director of Software Architecture and Delivery, Covad Communications Group, Inc.
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Companies: Advent Conferencing and CITYTECH
Industry: Conferencing/ Services/Technology
Geography: Chicago
Business Challenge: Needed to differentiate itself from the competition in a commodity marketplace.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Including: JBoss Seam Framework, JBoss Messaging and JBoss Cache, JBoss jBPM Framework
Benefits: Increased sales by offering a more flexible and customized service; Boosted customer satisfaction by improving provisioning and billing procedures; streamlined internal processes and cut operational costs through integrating customer relationship management, business process management, and accounting systems.
“With an award-winning organization like Red Hat behind us, and world-class technology like JBoss to leverage for our solutions, we are primed for success,” said Matt Van Bergan, chief technology officer, CITYTECH.
“CITYTECH listens to my needs, and is very creative about coming back with ideas, they speak in terms that make me confident they understand my business, and are completely focused on making Advent successful.” – Mike Swimelar, president, Advent Conferencing
See CITYTECH in the Press: Enterprise Management Quarterly
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Industry: Government, tax collection
Geography: Ecuador
Challenge: To develop a technology solution on a stable, secure, and affordable platform for an Internet-based tax return project.
Migration Path: From proprietary software to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and from JBoss Application Server 2.4 to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Software: Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Hardware: HP blades with dual-core AMD processors and quad-core Intel processors on a 64-bit architecture
Benefits: To promote and enable Internet-based tax return filing by taxpayers to reduce processing times and avoid increasing the customer service infrastructure at its own counters and bank tellers.
SRI’s experience with open source has been successful. The organization has achieved an efficient, reliable, scalable and affordable platform. The access to Red Hat’s source code has allowed the company to customize the functionality of the products in terms of business needs. The success achieved with Red Hat solutions has encouraged the organization to explore open source solutions for other areas of the business.
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Industry: Marketing services
Geography: Global
Business Challenge:
To increase the speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the business’ high-performance grid computing environment, which now records more than one trillion transactions per month
Migration Path: UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network
Hardware: x86 Servers
Benefits: Standardizing its grid computing environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux helped Acxiom achieve 100-fold performance gains and unmatched scalability while also reducing costs and increasing flexibility
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Industry: Car rental
Geography: EMEA
Business Challenge: To replace Avis’ costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department
Migration Path: Proprietary Sun hardware with Solaris and Weblogic-based application server platforms to a more cost-effective and flexible platform based on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on Windows Server 2003
Hardware: Wintel environment incorporating Dell hardware, Intel-based dual-CPU, quad-core machines with 8-16Gigs of RAM, Windows Server 2003 32bit and 64bit
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate framework
Benefits: Experienced significantly reduced TCO of at least 50 percent from reduced maintenance costs, as well as increased licensing flexibility and reconfigurability and decreased server load
“Avis has absolute trust in JBoss and its mission-critical enterprise applications. We are very satisfied with the results that we’ve achieved since migrating to JBoss solutions.”
–Jens Utech, Director Revenue and Fleet Applications at Avis.
Bank PHB improves flexibility, reliability and performance with Red Hat solutions
Dubai, GITEX – October 23, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Bank PHB, one of Nigeria’s top ten banks, has migrated its core mission-critical banking applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. Bank PHB migrated to Red Hat’s open source solutions to achieve the next step in scalability, performance and the ability to handle heavy workloads and achieve cost reduction more effectively than with other proprietary software platforms.
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Company: Booz Allen Hamilton
Industry: Government, Management Consulting
Geography: McLean, Virginia
Challenge: Build a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution for a government client that could be leveraged and reused for other client engagements
Migration Path: Transitioned a custom coded, proprietary-based solution to a a hybrid COTS/GOTS/Open-Source application that leveraged a significant portion of the Red Hat product portfolio.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform including JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with Xen virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS.
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Hardware: Eight Dell 2950 servers with 32 gigabytes of memory
Benefits: Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications
“We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client’s budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice.”
– Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
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Industry: Real estate
Geography: Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia
Business Challenge: Rebuild the All Homes Pty Ltd technology platform in order to modernise its website, ensuring an optimal user experience and equipping the site with support for future expansion plans
Migration Path: Outdated, costly software and hardware solutions to enterprise Linux servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Hibernate Framework
Solution:
Benefits: Experienced increased performance, reliability, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
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Industry: Government
Geography: Italy
Challenge: One of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, CSI-Piemonte has been promoting the modernization of the local public administration for thirty years. Its specific objective was to develop an open source platform for the supply of business applications which offered a real competitive advantage for companies in Piedmont.
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