Case Studies - Commerce, SMEs and B2B
Grid computing is not the preserve of the mega financial corporations or the multi-billion pharmaceutical giants. Grid computing is also used by SMEs, eMarketplaces, b2b and logistics companies as well - as these grid computing case studies from commerce and SMEs well demonstrate.
Company: Ducati Motor, Bentivogli
Business: Motorcycle manufacturers
Grid Solution: BEinGRID
Date: November 2009
B2B networks are formed by a medium-large company, called the starter, that invites its business partners to join its selected B2B IT solution, called the platform. This allows the starter to better manage its supply chain by providing a mechanism to electronically exchange information between network members.
The GRID2(B2B) solution consists of applications provided in the form of kits and related support services. The target market is IT companies that already own a B2B platform for supplier management. The kits solve the crucial problem for B2B platform owners of having all suppliers including SMEs electronically connected to the platform, and the kit price is very appealing to SMEs.
Grid computing case at Ducati Motor
Company: EADS Innovation Works
Business: in aerospace, defence and related services
Grid Solution: BEinGRID
Date: November 2009
Many big companies consist of several units generating a variety of information sets and performing advanced computing calculations. Workfl ow description offers an attractive approach to formally deal with the complex processes. Unfortunately, existing workfl ow solutions are mostly legacy systems, which are diffi cult to integrate in dynamically changing business and IT environments. Grid computing offers fl exible mechanisms to provide resources in the on-demand fashion.
Flowify as an integrated Grid solution demonstrates added value as a synergy hidden in independently-used IT technologies on the market in particularcomputing-intensive and workfl ow engineering applications. A lack of knowledge and expertise in the area of workfl ow management and Grid computing is a barrier for independent software vendors to offer a competitive solution to Flowify.
Grid computing case at EADS Innovation Works
Company: TVR Communications
Business: Interactive patient education and entertainment products
Solution Provider: Google Apps
Date: January 2009
400 employee firm TVR communications provides interactive patient education and entertainment products and services. After a decade without significant changes to their communication infrastructure – telephone still out ranked email – many technology advances hadn’t been taken advantage of and the infrastructure and storage was becoming pushed to the limit. Today, approximately 150 users use Google Apps for e-mail, calendaring, collaboration, and sharing documents. TVR users make extensive use of Google Sites to support tactical short-term projects and as external point of presence with customers and prospects. They also use Google Spreadsheets to support project management and budgeting. The ROI was 500% with payback in less than a month.
Case Study provided by Nucleus Research
Cloud Computing at TVR communications
Business: Tourism
Grid Solution: BEinGRID
Date: August 2009
TravelCRMGrid is an e-commerce travel solution offering Business Intelligence (BI) tools, capable of generating business intelligence reports within the travel sector. This will help individual travel agencies understand better the needs of their customers, improve their services, and increase customer loyalty. TravelCRMGrid is based on a Grid platform, comprising Fura, GRIA, OGSA-DAI, and the SLA Monitoring and Evaluation BEinGRID component. It is capable of integrating and pooling Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and BI applications in order to achieve massive and secure processing of CRM and BI data across different domains, leading to BI reports. This solution, based upon the analysis of federated data, will be marketed following a Software-as-a-Service model.
Versys is a worldwide provider of e-commerce travel services. TravelCRMGrid will be offered to Versys's clients. Valadis are a Technology and Service provider who provide the platform for TravelCRMGrid.
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Company: eBay
Business: eMarketplace
The huge online marketplace eBay, runs on 12,000 servers held together by eBay-developed Grid software – developed in house because at the time, no commercially available software was capable of handling the 610 million listings per quarter. This case study describes how eBay uses Grid computing in order to provide their scalable and stable auction hosting and search facilities.
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Company: TXT e-Solutions
Business: Textile Retail
Grid Solution: BEinGRID
Date: June 2008
Current Industry & Retail (I&R) platforms are both expensive and difficult to maintain and solution developers are struggling to meet the increasing demands on performance with traditional centralized architectures. Grid-based architectures are the ideal solution. End users will be relieved from the need to invest in infrastructure. Solution providers will be freed from code optimization details, allowing them to concentrate on the value-added aspects of their applications i.e. interoperability, maintainability and re-usability features of the code. The mission of the experiment was to demonstrate the technical feasibility and the business convenience in introducing Grid technologies in I&R sectors.
ASSIST, the Grid application development environment supplied by the University of Pisa, has been designed to achieve dynamic resource allocation, heterogeneous, adaptable and autonomic behavior, as well as dynamic QoS control features. It allows for parallel, distributed application development where resource management and QoS can be largely automated by means of parallel program structures which simplify application development, increase software reuse and shorten the software development cycle. By means of mathematical QoS models, the Assist run-time support controls resource allocation and steers it to match the assigned SLA.
Grid computing case study provided by IT-tude.com
Grid computing at TXT e-Solutions
Company: Inboxer
Business: Spam Filtering
Grid Solution: Digipede
Date: Aug 2006
InBoxer develops award-winning email filters for individuals and enterprises. InBoxer employs sophisticated statistics to validate classification algorithms that can distinguish between different kinds of email. Scoring millions of email messages on dozens of attributes is, however, extremely compute- and data-intensive, so InBoxer began exploring alternatives for increasing the speed and scalability of its algorithms. Choosing a Grid solution from Digipede, the company saw a four-fold improvement in application performance.
Grid computing case study provided by Digipede
Company: Tecnocassa
Business: Real estate
Grid Solution: BEinGRID
Date: June 2008
Tecnocassa and Dominio Italia have integrated the Grid technology in their traditional products. The ability of the Grid middleware to convey standardization and easy access to the existing software reduces dramatically the costs for the integration of existing infrastructures with the database federation. This can be utilized by SMEs that have specific needs, such as increase efficiency and real-time solutions.
Grid computing case study provided by IT-tude.com
Company: Pacific Event Productions
Business: Events Management
Grid Solution: Digipede
Date: Aug 2006
Pacific Event Productions creates unique and memorable parties and conferences for Fortune 500 corporations, social organizations, and private individuals. For the viewing of information though the web, the company’s IT staff had put together a simple system to extract requested data from the appropriate databases, format it and convert it to a pdf file. However, this could take 5 to 15 seconds. With normal traffic this was acceptable, but the nature of the events business led to periods of high activity in the run up to an event. The company opted for a Grid computing package from Digipede that enabled them to handle ten times the load on the Web application.Grid computing case study provided by Digipede
Grid computing at Pacific Event Productions
Company: Marchi & Fildi and Lanificio Colombo
Business: Textile design
Grid Solution: BEinGRID
Date: June 2008
The textile industry is facing several issues: the need for increasing competitiveness, cross-company collaboration and innovation. The low investments in IT technology mean that most of the companies rely on old software for which maintenance is always more difficult and expensive. Domina has developed a Grid portal with the aim to improve and give a single web interface to three applications.
Grid computing case study provided by IT-tude.com
Grid computing at Marchi & Fildi and Lanificio Colombo
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Company: Trekk Cross-Media
Business: Events Management
Grid Solution: Digipede
Date: Aug 2006
When Trekk Cross-Media, a marketing, communication, and promotional agency, took on a contract to provide direct mail services for one of the nation's largest retailers, customized for each individual address, it taxed their existing systems to the limit. Employing a Grid technology package from Digipede changed all that: with a simple system, throughput increased from 750 iterations per hour to over 5,000 per hour.
Grid computing case study provided by Digipede
Grid computing at Trekk Cross-Media
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