http://www.eweek.com Past Case Studies - RSS Feeds en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:42:49 -0400 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:42:49 -0400 Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:00:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Tis-the-Season-to-Counterfeit/?kc=rss - Chairman William Killgallon of toymaker Ohio Art is expecting his companys stocking to be filled with lumps of counterfeit goods this holiday season. Killgallon isnt happy about it. Ohio Art, which sells about $37 million worth of playthings such as Etch-a-Sketch tablets and the Betty Spaghetty f...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Tis-the-Season-to-Counterfeit/?kc=rss Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:37:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Bank-of-America-When-Systems-Dont-Merge/?kc=rss - Bank of America now stretches from the West Coast to the Gulf Coast to the East Coast. But its information systems dont. Even five years after combining with Southern banking giant NationsBank for $67 billion, customers still cant easily transfer money between accounts from the banks East and Wes...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Bank-of-America-When-Systems-Dont-Merge/?kc=rss Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:14:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Can-Technology-Outpace-a-California-Wildfire/?kc=rss - In October and early November, Ernylee Chamlee monitored fire officials moment by moment, as they called in air tankers, trucks and manpower to fight wildfires raging in Southern California--from her desktop computer in Sacramento. Chamlee is staff chief of operations, command and control for the...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Can-Technology-Outpace-a-California-Wildfire/?kc=rss Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Will-Amazoncoms-Growth-Strategy-Work/?kc=rss - It was a statement unusual in its candor. Cornell Williams, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Gap Inc. Direct, the online division of apparel retailer Gap Inc., was at an e-tailers conference in mid-2003 when he was asked about his companys decision a year earlier to sell clothing thro...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Will-Amazoncoms-Growth-Strategy-Work/?kc=rss Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:00:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Ameritrade-Merges-Best-of-IT-With-Datek/?kc=rss - Since the bursting of the Internet bubble, online brokerages have been buying and selling each other like over-caffeinated day traders. Ameritrade, the largest Internet broker, has been one of the most aggressive. It has picked up National Discount Brokers, mydiscountbroker, and the online accounts...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Ameritrade-Merges-Best-of-IT-With-Datek/?kc=rss Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/New-Balance-Forecasting-for-Market-Leadership/?kc=rss - You are a salesman for the New Balance Athletic Shoe company. Youre driving to Boulder, Colo., one Monday in July to meet with the regional buyer from your top account, The Sports Authority. Your cell phone rings. Its Jim Tompkins, president of New Balance. Is your forecast right? he asks. Where...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/New-Balance-Forecasting-for-Market-Leadership/?kc=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/WD40-Systems-Transformation-and-Brand-Expansion/?kc=rss - Mike Freemans job was to fix something that wasnt broken. WD-40 Co., where Freeman is president of North American operations, makes WD-40 lubricant spray. For decades, that was all it made, and the San Diego company was expert at getting those iconic blue-and-yellow cans onto its retail custome...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/WD40-Systems-Transformation-and-Brand-Expansion/?kc=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Sonic-Automotive-Roadside-Aid/?kc=rss - When Chief Information Officer David Boatman arrived at Sonic Automotive four years ago, the company was motoring ahead like it was on the acquisition Autobahn. Purring like a Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG, the auto dealer had begun picking up dozens of independent dealerships in a buying spree thats b...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Sonic-Automotive-Roadside-Aid/?kc=rss Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Hot-Topic-Small-Companies-Big-Returns/?kc=rss - At least once a year, Hot Topic Vice President of Technology John Horwath spends a day working at one of the chains stores, selling body jewelry, spiked chokers and other current emblems of alternative youth culture. At 44, Horwath is old enough to be the target of youth rebellion, with a dau...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Hot-Topic-Small-Companies-Big-Returns/?kc=rss Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Dallas-Mavericks-Customer-Management/?kc=rss - Ken Bonzon keeps a serenity prayer by St. Teresa of Avila taped to his computer monitor. Let nothing frighten you, it counsels, which is good advice when your boss is Mark Cuban. As chief information officer of the NBAs Dallas Mavericks, Bonzon works for a technology visionary who is outspoke...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Dallas-Mavericks-Customer-Management/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/SarbanesOxley-Does-Honesty-Pay-Off/?kc=rss - For Bob Travatello, the benefit of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley is calculated in prison time: The ROI is keeping my CEO and CFO out of jail. Travatello is chief information officer for Blue Rhino, a Winston-Salem, N.C., provider of propane gas cylinders for backyard grills. Like counterparts at ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/SarbanesOxley-Does-Honesty-Pay-Off/?kc=rss Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Linux-for-the-Long-Haul/?kc=rss - Two years ago, few enterprises would admit they were running Linux. Today, there are few organizations that are not piloting or using the open-source operating system in some fashion. To get an idea of how the operating systems role is developing in organizations, we revisited two of our Linux case...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Linux-for-the-Long-Haul/?kc=rss Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Curing-Web-App-Performance-Ills/?kc=rss - As mission-critical, Web-based applications proliferate in the enterprise, organizations are rushing to deploy tools that better monitor and manage performance across a distributed infrastructure. McKesson Corp., a $50 billion pharmaceuticals company in San Francisco, needed a comprehensive solutio...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Curing-Web-App-Performance-Ills/?kc=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/BAT-Looks-to-Web-Services/?kc=rss - When executives at British American Tobacco plc. needed a way to tap into and make sense of data in a variety of databases and enterprise applications, the IT department tapped into Web services. BAT, the second-largest publicly listed tobacco company in the world, employs about 90,000 people in 18...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/BAT-Looks-to-Web-Services/?kc=rss Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Penguin-Moves-to-Disney/?kc=rss - Last year, when the Walt Disney Co.s feature animation unit, in Burbank, Calif., announced that it was using Linux for digital animation work, speculation grew that Adobe Systems Inc. would finally port its products to Linux. To this day, however, Adobe has done no such thing. Rather than wait, D...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-Case-Studies/Penguin-Moves-to-Disney/?kc=rss