Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery and The Cure for Big Data

January 9, 2013 by 2 Comments
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Pharmaceutical drug discovery can become highly problematic when a company has over a decade worth of test data that needs to be analyzed. How can you expect to visualize 10 years of pharmaceutical test data all at once? Allergan does it everyday. All around the world, whenever people come together for holidays, festivities, and just gatherings of friends and family they unintentionally bring an uninvited guest. Sicknesses and illnesses do not take holidays and get passed on at higher rates when people come together. It’s the work of pharmaceutical companies like Allergan to work year-round to keep people as safe and healthy as possible.

Allergan is a global specialty pharmaceutical company employing more than 9,000 people worldwide at world-class discovery and development facilities, as well as state-of-the-art manufacturing plants. Even the best pharmaceutical companies need the occasional [Read more...]

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ACEA Has Light Bulb Moment With TIBCO

December 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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The light bulb just went off in your head and you thought of an idea. Many people trying to think of an idea can relate to the “light bulb moment.” Ideas are born every day which become timeless throughout history. Everyone knows the story of Benjamin Franklin’s idea to tie a key to the tail of a kite on a stormy night with a lightning-filled sky. That idea allowed for more research on electricity. A light bulb went off for Franklin that allowed him to prove lightning was an electrical current existing in nature. He was not the first to research electricity, but his innovative thinking inspired great improvements and inventions. Like Franklin, ACEA has had some help with a great innovative charge in the energy industry.

ACEA developed from a basic electricity company into Italy’s largest municipal utility. The company is the leading supplier of water and among the largest distributors of electrical power. Equally significant, ACEA has also evolved from a state-controlled institution into a deregulated, free-market enterprise; one whose success hangs on its ability to render services at once efficient and robust. ACEA provides more than 2.7 million residential customers with power in the Rome area, and supplies water to more than seven million people. [Read more...]

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Like the Wright Brothers, TIBCO Helps Scandinavian Airlines Innovate in Air Travel

December 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with developing and building the first successful airplane. While they were not the first to build and fly an experimental aircraft, in 1903 they were the first to innovate the revolutionary concept of fixed-wing flight. Based on this fundamental shift in essential airplane architecture, we now have airplanes that travel the globe faster and better than anyone could have ever imagined. Every airline has them to thank for their business success, and Scandinavian Airlines understands the importance of safe and comfortable travel. Scandinavian Airlines is the fourth-largest airline in Europe and transports over 23 million passengers to 92 destinations in 33 countries each year.

The airline industry might appreciate the Wright brothers for their innovations in flying, but many other processes are critical to commercial airlines including customers and passenger service. As in most industries, unseen internal processes often get taken for granted, yet are just as important. Scandinavian Airlines is known as a technology innovator within the industry. They began migrating to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure in 2002 and now have approximately 60 to 70 services in use internally and externally. Just as every airline and pilot can be grateful for the Wright brothers, Scandinavian Airlines also appreciates the unseen help and support TIBCO provides to the company. TIBCO’s platform-neutral approach to SOA is helping the airline manage services across heterogeneous platforms – a critical success factor in their environment. [Read more...]

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Innovation is Child’s Play for UK Toy Giant Hamleys

November 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
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When does innovation start? At what age does the inspiration to innovate begin? From the early ages of childhood, kids think of new games and ways to have fun each day. Imagination and creativity is nothing new and it is not reserved for any particular age. When children play with toys, they imagine an entire new world from the moments they have the toy in their hands. A toy store is like a warehouse for imagination where potential childhood dreams can be played out with the right toy. This creativity and innovation start very young, and is carried on into adulthood to create some of the most successful businesses today. Hamleys, an internationally recognized toy retailer, knows the importance of creativity and imagination to children.  The flagship store in London has become more than a retail shop, but a tourist attraction itself due to the imaginative wonders inside. The retailer receives over five million visitors a year, of all ages. Hamleys is not just this seven-story wonder world in London, as their stores span eight countries, creating a global network that promotes imagination and innovation. [Read more...]

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What Can’t You Do Without? TIBCO: The Easy Button For Business

November 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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What things can’t you do without? Other than the necessities, what is important to your everyday life? Some people would say television, Internet, an iPod, or their cell phone. In today’s world, we all have certain things that we use daily to make our lives easier. Many of the things that we value so much today did not even exist 50 years ago, but that is the power of innovation. We have new tools to handle our problems more quickly and make life easier. In many ways, technology has become the easy button for life. Just as much as we often look for an easy button in our daily lives, companies sometimes need an easy button for business.

Founded in 1939, Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company is a market leader in providing benefit solutions to customers. They pride themselves in excellence in communications, enrollments, service, and services that can help employers and employees. Colonial Life is a leading national provider of voluntary benefits to over 70,000 companies faced the challenge of a large volume of paperwork, modifying payment methods, altering billing frequencies, and other workflow issues. At Colonial Life, there was no easy button to prioritize work in their manual environment. That is, there was no easy button until Colonial Life turned to TIBCO. [Read more...]

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TIBCO Innovates in Real Time for Global Carrier CargoSmart

November 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.” Bill Gates uttered these words and they could not be truer for TIBCO. The famously successful businessman is no stranger to innovation, and today there is great promise for new and exciting technological advancements. As a leading provider of infrastructure software, TIBCO knows it is important to innovate and help other companies innovate to become event-enabled enterprises. One such company is Hong Kong-based CargoSmart Limited, an ocean-carrier transportation portal that allows customers to master the challenging “end-to-end” shipping process that requires multi-carrier shipping to connect seller and buyer.

Gates’ words are not just inspiring, but an idea CargoSmart realizes is vital to the success in the transportation industry. Not only does innovation promise to bring “so much to so many” in this day and age, but CargoSmart has to ensure that their shipments are being received by “so many” of their customers in a timely and efficient manner. CargoSmart uses a TIBCO-based platform to create products and respond to events in real time. Also, CargoSmart built a collaborative platform for the company on tibbr – TIBCO’s social computing tool for the workplace. Because of TIBCO’s help, CargoSmart has the ability to cut transportation management costs, automate and streamline operations, and reduce the risk of late or mismanaged shipments. [Read more...]

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Upgrading to Google-Like Speeds – UK Governmental Department Gets Real Time

October 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Google something. Chances are you can find the answers you want before you finish reading this sentence. In fact, have you ever noticed Google times itself to see how fast it can produce results? In only 0.11 seconds, Google produced over 5 million results from a search of TIBCO. In today’s world, everyone wants information fast. No one wants to wait hours, days or weeks to receive the information they are looking for. With the instantaneity of emails, the Internet, and TIBCO, the world is moving at a much quicker pace. The UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) knows this well, and refuses to let innovation zoom past.

DVLA is an executive agency of the UK Department for Transport that maintains registrations of drivers and vehicles. The UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency faces the challenge of handling large volumes of forms and transactions quickly, but there are exceptions. Exceptions relating to medical conditions are passed to the Drivers Medical Group (DMG). The DMG relied heavily on document imaging systems to deal with paperwork, but the system previously in place became outdated which limited the capability to share cases between departments. The DMG needed something new; the company needed help. Imagine running a Google search and having to wait for someone to deal with your inquiry by hand, and then deliver you the information in the mail. [Read more...]

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Innovation at its Finest: TIBCO LogLogic

October 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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There is a big difference between invention and innovation. Invention is the creation of something new. Innovation is doing something that has been done before, differently and better. Improving on a process, tool or solution is just as important as having the original. Our lives continually get better because of the innovations bettering the tools we already have. From automobiles, to airplanes, to cell phones, without innovation, we would be stuck in the stone ages. We might not be able to reinvent the wheel, but we can definitely innovate using it. TIBCO is not only a leader in infrastructure software, but also a leader in innovation.

The Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin knows TIBCO’s innovative capabilities. The nation is a federally recognized sovereign nation that operates many of the functions typically found in other governments, such as Environmental Services, Law Enforcement, Licensing and Zoning, Public Works and Transit. The nation needed a company that would bring them success. The Oneida Tribe sought out LogLogic in order to have a log management solution compatible with an extensive range of log source devices and applications to help achieve PCI and HIPAA compliance. Oneida automated their log and security event management because of LogLogic, so the amount of time and resources they invest in managing IT environments has been significantly reduced. [Read more...]

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From Transactional Value to Emotional Experience – Converting Loyal Customers into Fans

October 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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If you spend even few minutes on the Web you will notice almost every business asks its customers to become a fan on its Facebook page. It doesn’t stop here; most companies ask you to like partner sites to accumulate loyalty points. In the last couple years, this major shift in how businesses approach customer loyalty, from transactional to emotional, is changing the game. Gone are the days when you knew if you spent so many dollars you would be rewarded with a defined value to redeem in a set way. Customers prefer to be surprised with new, innovative ways of rewarding their loyalty. This is not a new science; it always existed in sports, in a different way though. Wonder why people become fans of a sporting team and remain lifelong supporters? It is because their team satisfies their desire to be included in a group they like and want to be a part of.

Businesses understand the need to take loyalty beyond transactional value to a level of emotional gratification where loyal members turn into fans. One of the surest ways is the experience provided to customers in a dynamic loyalty program that can offer benefits in real-time scenarios. An airline is often exposed to flight delays and cancellations, which customers undoubtedly dislike. What if the airline provides its frequent flyers with seats in the earliest possible flight, or a free upgrade, or permissible change in destination? The airline not only turns an unlikely event into a good experience, but also offers an emotional value to its loyal members motivating them to be fans of the airline. Since they cannot offer benefits to all their inconvenienced customers they can rank customers on their social media behavior, and not just on a traditional transactional basis. [Read more...]

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Election 2012: No Need for a Debate with LogLogic

October 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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It is election season and Americans must soon decide who they want to become President of the United States. One of the many ways that people formulate their decision is hearing the presidential candidates debate, where the candidates will have a chance to make their case to the American people. Issues that will be covered include the economy, healthcare, the role of government and other topics. Even though the candidates have to argue over who is best to lead the nation for the next four years, in the world of business, choosing TIBCO LogLogic requires no debate.

Plantronics, Inc. knows what LogLogic has to offer when it comes to security and payment card industry data security standards (PCI DSS). Plantronics is the world’s leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lightweight communications headset products. Plantronics headsets are widely used in many Fortune 500 corporations and have been featured in numerous films and high-profile events. Plantronics utilized TIBCO LogLogic in order to achieve PCI and SOX compliance while maximizing time resources and reducing costs. [Read more...]

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