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| Financial Services Firm Enhances Developer Productivity More than 60 Percent
Farm Credit Financial Partners, Inc. (FPI), which provides customer relationship management (CRM) and credit delivery systems, loan accounting, general ledger processing services, and other hardware, software, network, and telecom support to Farm Credit Associations, needed to rewrite its successful but decade-old application. After considering Java-based development tools, the organization chose to build its new application using Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET 2003 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. FPI has benefited from enhanced developer productivity, ease of use, flexibility in meeting customer needs, and support for a range of deployment scenarios. | | Customer Relationship Marketing Vendor Delivers Next-Generation Web Solution
Got Corporation provides a set of e-mail and marketing automation tools and services that meet a wide variety of industry needs. With its range of self-serve tools and advanced e-mail marketing programs, Got gives customers individual solutions. Got Corporation's existing Sun/Java/Oracle application was not able to scale to accommodate growth and the new features required by its customers, and it was evident it was reaching maturity. After comparing various scenarios, Got decided to build a new application from scratch using the Microsoft® .NET Framework, C#, Microsoft ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000. Got needed to bring this to market quickly, and did: In 5 months. 12 C# developers wrote the complex Web application built to support 50,000 transactions per minute. Got used Web services to integrate with third-party applications and components, regardless of their platform. | | Data Integration Solution Boasts Ease of Use
Software Labs develops advanced data management solutions. When designing eXamin Fusion, Software Labs considered Java, but chose to build the product with C#, Windows Forms, Microsoft ADO.NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Windows Forms made it easy to give the product a rich graphical user interface, and ADO.NET made it easy to write connectors for a wide variety of databases. | | Managed Code Speeds Development of Internet Research Tool
Onfolio was founded with a vision: to empower Internet users with software for collecting, organizing, and sharing information found online. Onfolio wanted to develop a research tool integrated with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Onfolio rejected the conventional choice of unmanaged code for developing this tool, and instead developed it primarily in C#. This choice allowed Onfolio to concentrate on usability and features rather than on low-level issues. | | Technology Speeds the Pistachio Harvest
From mid-August to mid-October every year, Paramount Farms of California's San Joaquin Valley processes roughly 11,000 loads of the year's pistachio harvest. For optimum quality, the nuts have to get from the tree to the huller as quickly as possible, without ever touching the ground. Since 2002, Paramount has been removing bottlenecks from the harvest process using a variety of computer technologies—RFID tags, bar code readers, Pocket PCs, networking, Web services, databases, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs)—tied together with software written using the Microsoft® .NET Framework. Paramount has not only improved the speed of the harvest, it has also improved its accuracy at every step, reduced unnecessary data entry, and provided better visibility to management and growers alike. | | Developers Improve Reservation Process for Resort Operator
Vail Resorts owns and operates five popular ski resorts in Colorado and California/Nevada, and one summer resort in Wyoming. The company's reservation agents were challenged by a central reservation system that was difficult to use and almost impossible to update. Vail Resorts found the answer to these troubles with the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Interlink Group. Within six months, the team created AirLink, a rich client application, using the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 development environment. AirLink provides Vail Resorts's reservation agents an easy-to-use application that integrates the company's central reservation system with an online airfare service and allows the company to scale its system efficiently to take advantage of new opportunities.
| | Desktop Application Searches Online Media Catalog
PixelMill wanted to create an easy-to-use desktop catalog of selected design templates; Corbis wanted to create an easy-to-use desktop catalog of its stock photography. PixelMill provided a Microsoft .NET Framework–based Web service for searching and accessing its content, and developed a Windows Forms application in C# for searching its catalog.
| | Walmart.com Offers Easy, Inexpensive Music Purchase and Download
Walmart.com wanted to compete effectively in the downloaded online music business, and to match the functionality and user experience offered by its competitors. Walmart.com engaged Microsoft solution provider and content delivery network SyncCast to develop an integrated plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 and 10 using Visual C# .NET. The new plug-in gives customers an easy, integrated online browsing, purchase, download, and listening experience.
| | Energy Management Software Ported to Cost-Effective 64-bit Computing Platform
The Automation and Information Systems group of the Power Transmission and Distribution unit of multinational company AREVA needed to update its e-terraplatform suite of products for the electric power industry to run on a modern, cost-effective 64-bit computing platform. The e-terraplatform suite, which consists of roughly 3.5 million lines of code, represents over 15 years of effort by 30 to 40 developers. AREVA Transmission & Distribution (T&D;) chose to port the suite to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-bit edition, and completed the port in only 6 months. The suite achieves better than 99.95% availability using redundant hardware and application models.
| | Sophisticated Smart Client Solves Problems for Microsoft Business Group in Just Three Months
The Volume Licensing Business Tools and Analytics group at Microsoft Corporation provides support to the licensing executives and specialists who prepare licensing agreements for enterprise customers. The Microsoft group needed a way to automate enterprise price quotes, and they wanted access online and off. To meet this business need, a development team built a smart client application by using the beta edition of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 development environment on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Equipped with flexible development tools and powerful data management available from the beta edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the team quickly created a simple but sophisticated application, with minimal deployment and update effort required.
| | Health Care System Revamps Intranet Portal, Improves Reliability and Security
Baylor Health Care System had an antiquated ColdFusion-based intranet site that needed a new design and technology to support it. After looking at several open source portal solutions, Baylor decided to write its own portal and most of the associated applications using a Microsoft .NET–solution that used C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server 2000. The new portal uses Active Directory and an internally developed security engine to provide single sign-on functionality. It also uses a custom extension to SQL Server written in C++ to expose Active Directory functionality through database queries. The conversion has greatly improved site reliability and has allowed Baylor to manage site development much more effectively.
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