MCS Case Studies

• Random Access

  Random Access worked with Microsoft Consulting Services and Solution Provider Semiotix, Inc. to develop a sales automation system dubbed the Sales Support Project (SSP).

• FS-Italian State Railways

  By transferring extensive knowledge about Microsoft products and the ways they can maximize the benefits of an IBM-based system, Microsoft Consulting Services helped FS, the Italian State Railways Corporation, develop an open client-server architecture.

• Abaco Grupo Financiero

  Focusing on its front-line employees, Microsoft Consulting Services helped ABACO Grupo Financiero develop a set of client-server applications to increase the timeliness and quality of the information it delivered to customers.

• Caisses D'Epargne Du Centre

  Microsoft Consulting Services assisted with a project, code-named NASA (New Architecture for the Agency System), which consisted of the migration of a Philips' environment and the revamping of existing applications.

• Foothill Group Inc.

  Foothill implemented a Windows-based accounting system that gives managers instant access to general ledger information.

• Nationwide Building Society

  When one of the United Kingdomís largest financial institutions decided to make a major change in the way it manages its business, its search for a technology to enhance competitiveness and improve customer service led to the Windows NT operating system.

• Sparkassen Datendienst (Spardat)

  To manage the software distribution for a fast growing environment, Spardat, with the help of Microsoft Consulting Services and several Microsoft Solution Providers, chose to implement a Microsoft Systems Management Server solution.

• Freightliner

  Designed and developed by Microsoft Consulting Services, ServicePro is an integrated information system installed on servers running the Microsoft Windows NT operating system.

• George Weston Ltd

  Message Manager is a versatile, mail-based data acquisition system built for Canadaís leading food company by Microsoft Consulting Services.

• Sage Plc

  Sage Sovereign wanted Microsoft Consulting Services to assist them in selecting the best tool(s) and architecture for developing a Microsoft Windows version of their existing account applications.

• Saturn Corporation

  Microsoft Consulting Services in St. Louis, Missouri, wrote the stand-alone Saturn Manufacturing Measurement System.

• Greater Harris County 9-1-1 Emergency Network

  This project provides state-of-the-art features and functionality for 9-1-1 call processing, and creates an open architecture platform that allows for value-added applications.

• State of Washington-Office of Financial Management

  With help from Microsoft Consulting Services, OFM developed a client-server system that drastically reduces the mechanical aspects of budget development, cuts mainframe costs in half, reduces overtime for financial analysts and improves state government decision making.

• Hughes, Hubbard & Reed

  Hughes, Hubbard & Reed partnered with Microsoft Consulting Services for network integration and the development of a WAN system architecture.

• Aetna Life & Casualty-Document Production/Publishing

  Aetna received assistance from Microsoft Consulting Services during the development of Aeditor and the transition from the canceled workgroup application to the final solution incorporating Microsoft products.

• Aetna Life & Casualty-Policy Management/Underwriting

  The Financial Information System for Customer Teams (FISC) is a client-server-based inquiry and transaction-processing application. To align with Aetna's movement to Windows, and to improve FISC's perfomance, it was determined that it was time to make FISC a Windows-based application.

• Agena Corporation

  Taking advantage of the ease of use of Microsoft Windows and the power of Microsoft BackOffice technology, AGENA designed a full-featured agency management system that automates customer policy, accounting, marketing, and claims management functions.

• Eagle Star Life

  Three years ago, Eagle Star Life embarked upon a five year plan aimed at developing its systems to carry the company forward along the path of sustained growth and enhanced service provision. Microsoft Consulting Services was chosen as a partner in a significant part of this strategy.

• ITT Hartford Insurance Group

  In concert with a larger ITT Hartford effort to downsize, reengineer and automate its processes, the commercial lines loss control group, with the help of Microsoft Solution Provider Linc Systems and Microsoft Consulting Services, completed a pilot application to automate the field loss control survey process.

• John Hancock

  John Hancockís Retail business unit, with the assistance of Microsoft Consulting Services and third party Compucom, rolls out a Microsoft Office and Microsoft BackOffice-based client/server infrastructure throughout the 180+ field offices.

• Colas Group

  The project involves migrating the COLAS's BULL CTOS environment and porting the existing applications (by revamping some of them) to a new, open environment.

• Mirage Resorts

  Mirage Resorts, Inc. entered into a partnership with Microsoft Consulting Services to explore new technologies and determine how they could help the company meet its business objectives. MCS applied the principles in Microsoft Solutions Framework to help MRI develop and deploy the Yield Rate Management and Retail Analysis Systems.

• Rai Radio Televisione Italiana

  By helping RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana standardize on the Microsoft Windows operating system while enhancing the usability of RAIís existing applications, Microsoft Consulting Services enabled Italyís largest broadcasting company to increase productivity and gain a technological advantage.

• Mercury Communications

  Mercury Communications enlisted the services of Microsoft Consulting Services to design and build an entire sales and installation forecasting system.

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