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Companies: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Zimbra
Industry: Higher education; technology (software)
Geography: Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sunnyvale, California
Business Challenge: The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee needed to replace an aging email system with a new platform that would provide innovative collaboration solutions to their 50,000 accounts
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Benefits: Reduced IT administration and support costs by standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as primary campus operating system; By migrating the existing email system to Zimbra Collaboration Suite, UWM improved communication and collaboration among students, faculty and staff and provided a single integrated calendar and email solution; increased focus on student retention by providing tools to manage their academic and personal schedules and stay connected with faculty.
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one of the most requested OS today, primarily due to its stability and performance. It was the obvious choice as the primary deployment platform for Zimbra.”
—Ramesh May, Senior Manager, Marketing and Products, Zimbra
“When evaluating integrated email and calendar solutions, we focused on the total cost of ownership—that is, the lifetime cost, not just the purchase cost—of the applications. Zimbra running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux emerged as the clear consensus choice.” —Bruce Maas, chief information officer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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Company: National City Corporation
Industry: Financial services
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Reengineering the datacenter infrastructure with a cost-effective and scalable platform that provided mission-critical reliability and superior performance to accommodate fast-paced business expansion
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DB
Hardware: 600 Intel Xeon Processor-based x86-based physical and virtual HP ProLiant DL580 servers
Migration Path: From UNIX systems, including Sun Solaris, running on proprietary RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon Processor-based HP ProLiant servers
Benefits: Reduced IT operating costs down to two cents per transaction which has the potential to save millions over the life of the systems, provided the ability to scale for business growth, and reegineered datacenter without unscheduled business interruptions
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“In addition to its ability to scale, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has rock-solid reliability and has been extremely stable. Our decision to standardize on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure was key to enabling rapid business growth while maintaining customer service levels.” – Thomas McGinnis, platform engineer, PNC (formerly National City Corporation)
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Company: ANSYS Japn K.K.
Industry: Software: CAE
Business Challenge:Provide support for complex analytical simulations: address customer requirements for more advanced CAE technologies, investigate emerging processor technologies, increase productivity
Solution: Deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and selected AMD Opteron™ processors, which are scalable up to 8-processors/32-cores and widely employed in the CAE
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL785 G5, 8-processor, 32-core, Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, 256GB DRR2 memory
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ANSYS, Fluent and other CAE software solutions from ANSYS, Inc.
Benefits: The server runs continuously and stably under high loads. Found a highly manageable way of leveraging the power of the new server, like a cluster in a single box. Achieved a significant reduction in power consumption, making it possible to add additional servers. Provides customers with simulation results more rapidly, addresses customer challenges more flexibly, contributes to higher IT ROI
Overview: US-based ANSYS Inc. has taken a global leadership role in the field of CAE software, an integral and indispensable part of many manufacturing processes. ANSYS Japan K.K., the Japanese arm of ANSYS Inc., has deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to keep pace with customer demand for complex engineering simulations. The company appreciates the benefits of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including its stability under high loads and significantly reduced power consumption.
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Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Singapore
Business Challenge: Needed a solution to enable them to proactively monitor, track and respond in terms of bed usage and associated resources
Migration Path: Paper-based system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat Alliance Partner: Y3 Technologies Pte Ltd
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM PowerSeries 2 P6-570 virutalized server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Bed management solution improved bed turnaround, and thus staff productivity; real-time information enables staff to provide improved patient care
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, together with Y3, offered a unique solution that met our needs and exceeded our expectations.”
– Fong Yong Choi, MIS manager at MAH
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Industry: Construction & Engineering
Geography: Headquarters and global operations is based in the Principality of Liechtenstein
Business Challenge: To migrate all SAP® business-critical applications from a
discontinued legacy UNIX environment to a scalable and reliable platform and to eliminate vendor
lock-in
Migration Path: HP Tru64 UNIX on Alpha Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on x86_64
commodity based hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System
(GFS), ATIX Open-Sharedroot Extension, SAP applications including SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), and the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform
Hardware: 185 HP ProLiant servers, the largest machines have 32 CPUs with 128GB RAM
Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; achieved an estimated 50 percent overall cost reduction; increased performance by more than 100 percent; provided ease of management and reliable uptime; reduced electricity costs and carbon footprint; and provided the company with a long-term platform strategy that will help retain expert knowledge and enable the team to be highly responsive to the increasing requirements of a global manufacturing, sales and service organization
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“We migrated to SAP applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers after evaluation and testing. Since migrating, we have have experienced increased performance of more than 100 percent. We also reduced IT costs with a commoditized architecture. Having a tight level of integration between Red Hat and SAP support organizations gives us the confidence to continue along this path and further reduce our costs by migrating all of our SAP environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
– Martin Petry, CIO at Hilti
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Customer: Monash University: Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Industry: Education
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: Monash University needed to construct a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to support its biomedical research efforts. The cluster needed to be easily expandable, and CPU power per dollar spent was a major consideration.
Solution:cluster built on Dell PoweEdge blade servers and Dell PowerVault storage running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers with Intel Xeon processors, Dell PowerEdge M1000e enclosures, Dell PowerVault MD3000 modular disk storage arrays, Dell PowerVault MD1000 disk expansion enclosures
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Platfrom OCS (Open Cluster Stack)
Benefits: Able to add a new server node in minutes with no downtime, able to support 400% more research projects, research completed in weeks vs. months, favorable price, lower power requirements, easily expandability of both cluster and storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware form bedrock for over 120 applications and high traffic web portal
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Industry: Publishing
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To replace inefficient, incumbent systems with a reliable and affordable standardised system
Migration Path: A number of different platforms, including Tomcat, to one standardised platform based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Hardware: x86 commodity hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including JBoss Hibernate
Benefits: Gained increased knowledge management, expanded stability, and reduced operational costs
“We are more than happy with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Our 60-strong development team are happy with the implementation and the operation teams understand it, laying strong foundations for the future.”
– Peter Hanlon, chief technical architect, Trader Media Group
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Company: Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation (OL&T)
Industry: Transportation: Managed logistics services for the chemicals and process industries
Geography: Headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut with international offices in North America and Europe
Business Challenge: Needed to cost-effectively scale its infrastructure to meet exponential growth in the business
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Oracle Database, Oracle ProC
Hardware: 33 multi-core Intel® Xeon® based IBM xSeries servers
Migration Path: HP-UX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multicore Intel Xeon processor based servers
Benefits: Ability to add transaction processing and storage capacity quickly and cost-effectively as business continues to expand. Ensures uptime and reliability to customers relying on Odyssey Logistics & Technology to run mission-critical supply chain operations
“Migrating to Linux was synonymous with migrating to Red Hat. Because of its rigorous quality control, Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based servers is truly a rock-solid platform. Its reliability continues to impress us daily,” said Massey. “And we increasingly think of Red Hat as a partner, not a vendor. We absolutely trust Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel with our most mission-critical systems.”
– Brad Massey, director, IT Support Services, Odyssey Logistics & Technology
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Company: SNS Bank
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Netherlands
Middleware: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and jBPM
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Flexible and high-performance platform; fast, standardized development, cost effective, low total cost of ownership.
SOA allows the Defense Information Systems Agency to better support the joint warfighter in times of war and peace.
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Industry: Government
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Fusion of information, logistics, engineering, planning and transportation technologies to enable military mobility and versatility
Software: MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform
Benefits: Ability to use legacy systems in DISA’s Net-Centric environment, increased security of information shared across agencies and task forces, enabled America’s troops to be more mobile and versatile, in any location, at any time
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Company: Gap Inc. Direct
Industry: Clothing Online Retail
Geography: San Francisco
Business Challenge: Ensuring security and payment card industry compliance while managing system level access across the enterprise
Migration Path: UNIX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Likewise Enterprise
Hardware: 1,500 Intel-based IBM blade servers
Benefits: Savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on reduced administrative and hardware costs associated with compliance and security requirements. Compliance with PCI and SOX requirements through automatic authentication of users across a mixed systems environment.
“The ROI [return on investment] of the Red Hat-Likewise solution is up to several hundred thousand dollars annually once you add all of the hardware and software savings to the reduced costs associated with manually auditing the systems. Likewise Enterprise’s compliance enhancements allowed us to control user access and permissions, thus enabling us to grow our Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.”
– Jeff Arcuri, senior manager, IT for GAP Inc. Direct
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Industry: Manufacturing
Geography: Republic of Korea
Challenge: Migrate to a flexible platform to achieve cost savings for server consolidation in the data center project
Migration: UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Database
Hardware: IBM xSeries, HP BladeSystem
Benefits: Reduce server operating costs; achieve reliable and flexible system operation
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Industry: Airlines/Travel
Geography: The Netherlands
Business Challenge: Renew, update, and unify the heterogeneous IT infrastructure created by the merger of Air France and KLM to create an affordable and scalable platform
Migration Path: IBM AIX and Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5; IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, SAP, KARMA, (KLM-Air France Revenue Management Application), Alfresco Document Management System, TIBCO, Oracle
Benefits: Delivered reduced costs expected to amount to approximately 11 million Euros by the end of 2011; a homogeneous, universal platform; an open architecture with impressive performance and reliable support
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“There is no internal discussion. The best product is Red Hat Enterprise Linux: End of story. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we work more effectively and productively and we save significantly on manpower and continuity.”
— Rene Matla, ICT production manager Linux at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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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, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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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Red Hat provides the University of Southern Mississippi with time-saving solution
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Customer: University of Southern Mississippi
Industry: Education
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Reconfiguring servers that were not based on the same hardware platform lead to an increase in errors and demanded much of the IT team’s time and financial resources
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite
Benefits: Streamlined the university’s IT environment and standardized the systems management process, reduced overhead, minimized errors, and saved time and financial resources
“We transitioned to Red Hat solutions very easily. It was just flipping a switch. It was easy.”
– James Daniel, system administrator at the University of Southern Mississippi
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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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Customer: Healthplan Services (HPS)
Geography: North America
Industry: Healthcare
Migration Path: Sun Solaris 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform; Sun SPARC servers to virtualized Linux instances on HP ProLiant DL380 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network, Apache webserver, MySQL databases, IBM DB2
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 servers
Benefits: Increased performance, usability and convenience; enhanced support, and reduced cost with a Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration on HP ProLiant servers
“The speed is going to increase: we’ll see people working faster, and we’ll be able to process more claims, all by switching an operating system. I can’t believe it was that cut and dry.”
– Adam Atkinson, UNIX administrator at Healthplan Services
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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: Local Government
Geography: The Netherlands
Opportunity: Renew part of the city’s IT infrastructure and create a future-proof platform for its heterogeneous environment
Migration Path: Windows and Unix with small amounts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, including virtualization and clustering
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Consulting, Basis Registratie Systeem (BRS)
Hardware: 6 Dell 1750, 1850, 1950, and 2950 servers
Benefits: Run more applications with less hardware, enable cost- and space-savings, provide scalability, offer capacity to support future growth and deliver disaster-recovery capabilities
“One of the key benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization is that we can install and roll out a new application in 60 minutes to all of our systems, compared to four hours per system previously.”
– Hennie Stam, Senior System Administrator, DS+V Division at City of Rotterdam.
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Oil and Gas Leader Reduced Costs and Increased Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Integrated Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based Servers
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Company: YPF SA
Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Argentina
Business Challenge: Renovate proprietary infrastructure with the goal of reducing costs and boosting performance with open source solutions
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Network, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), 10g DB, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x 346, 366, 3650, 3850 servers
Migration Path: From SUN Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x servers
Benefits: Reduced capital and operational costs, boosted performance and efficiency of administrators, increased internal customer satisfaction by reducing implementation time, increased scalability and agility, and expanded flexibility
“Now, more than 80 percent of our Oracle databases and 90 percent of our SAP applications run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based servers and is the choice for our SAP and Oracle implementations.”
–Adriana Marisa Vázquez, responsible for the UNIX administration group at YPF.
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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 ProLiant 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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Customer: Aviza Technology
Industry: Electronics
Deployment Country: United States
Solution: Enterprise Resource Planning
Business Partner: IBM
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun SPARC to IBM System x
Business Need: When end-of-life issues on the company’s existing Sun hardware began impacting the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Aviza sought a cost-effective systems solution from IBM.
Solution: Aviza implemented a two-tier Oracle configuration, with Oracle EBS v11.5.10 on one IBM System x3850 4-socket server and Oracle Database 10g on one IBM System x3950 16-socket server—both running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM System Storage N5200 provides 2.4 TB of data storage. The development environment has six test instances running on five x3850 servers, with a second N5200 providing 7.2 TB of data storage.
Benefits: Aviza Technology achieved a multifold increase in solution performance, enabled new levels of systems scalability and flexibility across the company’s global IT infrastructure, and better positioned the company to meet unforeseen IT system challenges.
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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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Industry: Hosting and Internet services provider
Geography: Offices in Spain, France, and Portugal with customers in more than one hundred countries
Business Challenge: Unifying Linux distributions and offering customers a reliable, certified, and supported platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM System x 3250 and 3550 servers
Benefits: Improved quality and reliability of the company’s Internet services, reduced the complexity of its IT system, and simplified its IT maintenance process
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Lower costs and increased sales with a comprehensive call center solution
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Customer: PRO BTP
Industry: Insurance
Deployment Country: France
Solution: Unified Communications and Collaboration
Business Partner: IBM
Business Need: PRO BTP needed to improve the quality of its call answering service to better serve its members. It also wanted to find a solution that would reduce its communication costs.
Solution: PRO BTP engaged IBM Global Business Services and IBM Global Technology Services to provide a comprehensive call center solution, unifying call answering among the company’s three call centers. The IBM team evaluated all the alternatives then selected an Avaya Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure using Text over IP (ToIP) and Voice over IP (VoIP).
The solution runs on a reliable, scalable IBM BladeCenter HS20 platform, housed in IBM BladeCenter (Chassis) and running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
Benefits: The company has enjoyed dramatically improved call answering service with 90% of 5,500,000 annual calls answered in three rings or less, and lower telecommunications costs in a secure solution, with automatic backup if one site fails.
