The mining company was facing challenges in monitoring and collecting data from remote installations. The boreholes in the phosphate mine were located in a remote desert area with no utility-provided electricity or internet. Communications were limited to company satellite phones. If anything happened in one of the boreholes, it would take hours to get medical help or a crucial part. The ability to monitor and remotely supervise the boreholes was not just for compliance reasons, but also for safety. The company needed to collect and turn critical data into value. Another challenge was the pre-permitting process which required a lot of data to prove that the soil is stable enough for the operation.

Refrigerated transport is essential in Australia, and without it much of its agriculture, food processing, preservation and distribution, and even the pharmaceutical sector, would not be able to function properly. The global market for refrigeration is increasing, partly due to consumers becoming more health-conscious and wanting more fresh, healthy food, much of which is perishable. Producers must adapt to overcome logistics constraints and, at the same time, reduce the level of waste in the food industry. Nearly all of the produce eaten in Australia is grown there and Australia produces about three times as much as is consumed in the country. Each region has a different season, so seasonal produce has to be trucked from the growing region to the consumers in other regions. Refrigeration therefore is critically important to the Australian (and global) food chain. In the 1990’s, a shake-up in the transportation industry led to two big trucking companies dominating refrigeration. Because they had to squeeze costs down, they chose to no longer hire/train drivers to work with refrigeration units, so today’s refrigerated truck drivers have little or no experience with the units. QTRS fills that gap.

Landsbond der Christelijke Mutualiteiten (LCM) needed to quickly process an ever-growing volume of information they receive from the many stakeholders involved in health care provision. Managing and monitoring these transactions from start to finish was becoming increasingly complex and started to pose issues for LCM’s development capacities. LCM was looking for a high-performance integrated solution for exchanging B2B information on a flexible SOA foundation. A significant increase in data exchange volumes and rates, as well as the diversification of types and file formats posed several challenges for LCM, because this brought them increased workload and complexity, greater risk of being unable to meet deadlines and more time-critical data to manage.

Mondi Packaging Bags’ site acquisition strategy resulted in a heterogeneous IT landscape structure that was rapidly becoming too complex. Over 20 different back-office systems were running on a wide variety of platforms and with varying software release statuses — all systems needed to be connected to the sales portal. The company was also planning to gradually implement SAP systems in all of its larger production sites. The challenge was to create an integration layer to connect all company systems and all of its customers’ procurement systems to the sales portal.

Statens Innkrevingssentral, a subsidiary of the Norwegian Department of Finance, was struggling with a legacy mainframe solution that was functionally fine, but did not measure up to modern solutions and was too costly to operate. The institution was exposed to risk at a time when it was asked to dramatically lower operating expenses. The legacy mainframe solution was responsible for a loss in competitiveness. The institution called upon its own organization and partners to carry out an analysis to outline the requirements in detail. This analysis was the basis on which all parties involved designed the final solution, a new collection and ledger system. This new system would provide Statens Innkrevingssentral with the desired reduction in operating expenses and ensure the implementation of new claim types without further development.

Lufthansa Cargo, a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, was facing challenges in training its diverse workforce. The company employs people of many different nationalities with a wide range of language skills, and each process requires meticulous compliance with predefined procedures. Forwarding agents must be trained thoroughly, irrespective of the high rate of employee turnover. The company was looking for a solution to simplify the descriptions of complex processes and all delivery methods, provide language-independent information about processes, and gain broader acceptance among staff. The company also wanted to improve the transparency of its processes and workflows for employees.

Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, was facing challenges in managing complex data and legacy process management systems. The company was struggling to meet customer demands for lower prices and more detailed order tracking. Bosch's global scale, with over 450 subsidiaries and local companies operating in over 60 countries, made these demands seem insurmountable. The company was also dealing with data stored on independent systems, complex reporting requirements, increasing competition and thinner margins, and growing process administration delays. Bosch lacked a centralized platform for generating reports or a standard way to manage business processes, which was like operating with blinders on. The company needed more agility, better insights, and greater flexibility.

Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetraenke AG (CCEAG), one of The Coca-Cola Company’s (TCCC’s) top bottlers, was chosen as a pilot center for the Coke One global template deployment. The project would ultimately impact more than 75 percent of CCEAG’s existing applications in a highly interdependent IT landscape. Close to 1,000 business processes had to be reviewed and aligned across seven key areas: market-to-order, order-to-cash, forecast-to-deploy, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, master data management and human resource management. This corresponded to roughly 120 enterprise applications, 300 operational interfaces, 900 BI interfaces and 150 business objects that were impacted. CCEAG’s decision to use Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) to facilitate its Coke One deployment was a clear project success factor. While the Coke One model specified the target state and functional processes, localizations to the template were required to meet individual bottlers’ needs. Bottlers had to determine and manage the extensive changes to their operations themselves, all while maintaining daily business. Adding to the challenge, the model also lacked conventions and standards to guide the evolution of the bottlers’ IT landscapes.

SA Water, owned by the Government of South Australia, faced a significant challenge when preparing its first Regulatory Business Proposal (RBP). The company needed to bridge information silos, aggregate knowledge capital dispersed throughout the company, identify and fill information gaps, and leverage it all collectively to create a holistic, multi-year plan. In conjunction with this effort, the Information Services (IS) forward plan of capabilities, initiatives, and business demands had to be broadened from a yearly focused approach into a multi-year strategy to be in line with SA Water’s RBP. The company needed an integrated, flexible planning tool that would increase visibility across SA Water’s business domains, enable tracking of capital expenditure planning activities, and facilitate demand prioritization and scenario analyses.

BTPN, a leading bank in Indonesia, faced a complex challenge: How to connect everyone from farmers to millennial digital natives across thousands of islands, while also ensuring its legacy core banking system doesn’t grind to a halt. The bank needed to transition to a new role as a transactional bank, achieve deeper market penetration, and release two stunning mobile banking services in Wow! and Jenius. The bank also faced challenges such as a geography encompassing 17,000 islands, rapid growth in millennial market dominance, diverse socioeconomic populations, exponential increase in mobile access, disparate back-end systems, and high costs of maintaining bank branches.

The company, a global federation of autonomous DIY retailer networks, was facing challenges due to rapid year-over-year growth, disparate data systems, complex per-brand needs, and a transition from products to solutions. The market was being disrupted by large online retailers, changing international trade agreements, and customers who wanted the power of mobile and the web when they shop. The company needed to pivot from merely selling products to selling service-based solutions. This required preparing all of its businesses, operating in different countries and under differing regulatory regimes, to be agile enough to offer new capabilities, new products, and new service models for a changing type of consumer.

Kredi Kayıt Bürosu (KKB), Turkey’s first and only credit bureau, experienced rapid growth since its inception in 1995. The company expanded to 180 member institutions, serving over 2 million end customers. However, this success brought challenges. The company was overwhelmed by a deluge of data, both digital and on paper, and struggled to manage it efficiently. Manual processes, including updating some data by hand and manually searching documents, were time-consuming and inefficient. Additionally, Turkey's strict requirement for immediate implementation and enforcement of new regulations added to the pressure. KKB needed a major change to continue its growth and handle new regulations with agility.

Gardner Denver, a leading global provider of high-quality industrial equipment, technologies, and services, faced several challenges. The company lacked real-time fault detection and the ability to remotely configure equipment, leading to costly servicing and repairs. The company's customers rely on the continuous operation of their industrial equipment, and eliminating downtime was a primary goal. Gardner Denver sells its equipment through a strong, global set of partners and distributors. It needed a way to capture operational information from its machinery and provide it to the organizations best placed to support its customers. Each partner and distributor takes ownership in its customers and pride in the quality performance of its equipment. Delivery of secure and unique solutions by each partner and distributor is critical to ensure high-performing machinery.

Georgia-Pacific, a leading manufacturer and marketer of tissue, packaging, paper, pulp, building products and related chemicals, was in the process of transitioning its technology to SAP® and Microsoft®. However, the company needed to continue meeting ongoing user needs with cost-effective products that could extract more information from older systems. A major operational challenge at the company's Port Hudson Operations was managing rental expenses for large equipment that the mill used only periodically. The legacy system did not provide the kind of information about rentals that would ensure effective management of such expenses. The company needed to improve its reporting capabilities while finding a cost-effective way to maximize the value of its RMS files and to open Champs to PCs.

Allied Electronics, an electrocomponents distributor, wanted to increase sales at its 70 branch offices scattered throughout the U.S. & Canada. The idea was to create a quote system that could use Allied data stored in an RMS database running on a VMS server. The Allied Quote system would enable managers, salespersons, credit managers and product managers to communicate through web forms using ASP.NET technology. The system would allow them to produce new quotes for customers, get management approval on certain quotes, have a contact database, provide a way for the various users to register inventory checks, and create orders, among a long list of other activities. The main interest was to capture data that was getting lost during phone conversations with customers, and also to be more responsive to the changes in their entry process. Gathering all the data on their quotes would give them a lot more information and allow their salespeople to dispose of their need to keep voluminous files on all of their customers.

A leading credit card company was failing to meet its one-second Service Level Agreement (SLA) for identifying blacklisted credit cards approximately 0.3 percent of the time. This resulted in blacklisted cards being improperly accepted, costing the company an estimated $10 million annually. The causes were twofold. First, the company kept its list of seven million blacklisted card numbers and individuals in a disk-bound Oracle® database, which was slow to access. Second, the Java® garbage collector caused extended, unpredictable pauses. Each pause forced the company to “guess” on many transactions, exposing the company to losses.

The company, a Fortune 100 shipping company, was facing a challenge in presenting relevant cross-sell offers to its customers within the stipulated Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The company receives more than 32 million tracking requests daily, each of which presents an opportunity to increase sales and customer satisfaction by serving up relevant content and offers. However, deciding which offers to present required time-consuming calls to multiple disk-bound databases, resulting in data retrieval times at least four times slower than those mandated by SLAs. This lag was cutting into potential cross-sell revenues and putting the company at risk of upsetting customers with a subpar online experience.

The company, a top loyalty program provider, was facing a challenge in meeting the aggressive end-to-end Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 500 milliseconds for every transaction, as demanded by large retail prospects. The company's data center took an average of 20 percent longer than that — 600 milliseconds — just to query upwards of 32GB of customer data in a central, disk-bound database. Furthermore, Java-related garbage collection pauses caused unexpected spikes in response times that would have resulted in financial penalties for failure to meet the SLA, and in unhappy customers. In order to win new business from larger retailers, the company realized it had to move its data into fast machine memory.

The company, a leading global producer of passive electronic components and interconnects, was facing several challenges. It was operating on a legacy mainframe infrastructure that was over 30 years old. The mainframe IBM environment, which included Software AG’s Adabas, Natural and EntireX, was still functional but was not equipped to handle the demands of the modern manufacturing world. The company was facing rising operational costs and was struggling to prepare for the green energy revolution and faster production cycles. By 2013, the company was in a critical situation. Backup hardware had become impossible to find, older users supporting the legacy system were retiring, software updates were non-existent, and adding new functionality was off the table. This meant that in the event of a disaster, there was nobody the company could call.

AVIC, a large-scale enterprise managed by the central government of China, was facing pressure from the aviation industry to improve its processes. The company had no top-level design and individualized processes with no collective strategy. The business and IT strategy were misaligned. AVIC had a number of complex, disparate systems and processes that needed to be streamlined if it was going to outshine its competition in terms of efficiency and agility and deliver on its strategy. Its approach was twofold: First, establish its AVIC Operation System (AOS) and get IT management in order and, second, conduct an in-depth process application analysis and smarten up.

The U.S. Army, one of the largest military forces in the world, faced several challenges. They needed to translate strategic business vision into effective enterprise change more efficiently, guide IT investment decisions to 'to-be' environments, enhance collaboration and support of core missions like HR, logistics, acquisitions and procurement, enable continuous process improvement, and manage rising costs in a constrained budgetary environment. The Army needed a robust strategy for its transformation, considering its 17 end-to-end processes, 1,600 operational activities, 700 systems in its IT portfolio, and four major ERPs.

The company, a leading marketing agency, was facing challenges due to the overwhelming volumes of data, the industry-wide revolution in digitalization, and a disruptive media and advertising environment. The company needed to deliver marketing messages to customers where they are, when they are receptive, and perfectly optimized for the right device or medium. They also needed to move beyond simple, post-campaign analysis to a set of analytic techniques that incorporated probability, statistics, algorithmic modeling, data mining, and machine learning. The volumes of data, computational resources, and technical knowhow required for this were tremendous.

Chevron, one of the top three integrated energy companies, wanted a centralized SAP® system with standardized process and master data design. The company was seeking to extract more value from its business processes. Additionally, Chevron identified the need for business process intelligence and a governance framework to ensure high quality and management of all material master data in SAP®. The challenge was to implement a system that could cover a wide range of processes, activities, and master data types across multiple countries.

The insurance company, despite its rapid growth and global presence, was facing challenges with its data integration platform. The legacy system was resource-intensive, expensive to maintain, and required specially trained personnel to operate. It was also not scalable, making it unfit for the company's growth trajectory. The insurance industry relies heavily on efficient data management for real-time business decisions, and the company's existing system was proving to be a significant barrier to growth. The company needed a solution that could integrate data from disparate systems, streamline operations, and scale with the company's growth.

As the company transitioned from a single market focus to becoming a digitalized global enterprise, rapidly growing data complexity became a major threat to the business. The company needed to manage complex product life cycles, control financial and human risks, and work with dozens of independent systems. Earlier attempts to solve these problems with a small data science team focusing on production had promising results. But the company quickly ran aground of business and technology liabilities, such as: human errors in manually coded models, scalability bottlenecks, burgeoning data volumes, and an inability to achieve real-time data processing goals.

The financial services company was facing challenges due to the extreme complexity of data volumes as a result of product flexibility. The company's data science teams were hitting capacity ceilings, leading to external risk from financial fraud such as money laundering and corruption. The company was using a dedicated team of data scientists to create hand-coded fraud models, but with millions of customer accounts, a large service portfolio, and geographically dispersed operations, manual coding became a major liability. The process of converting algorithmic fraud models to operational form dramatically slowed the process of “operationalization.”

The company, a global leader in consumer health products, was facing several challenges. They wanted to 'win differently' with a digital business platform, improve access to information enterprise-wide, reduce manual work and standardize processes, increase visibility across the global supply chain, and become more customer-centric. They were dealing with painful processes like manually collecting data from disconnected systems. They had no way to detect issues in delivery flow, and customer interactions were reactive rather than proactive. Costs increased due to shipment escalations. The disjointed Approval for Product Release (APR) process required manually consolidating paper specs into binders across all R&D functions. Every region had a different framework with no way to monitor or share information. There was no workflow support, no integration to other systems.

The company provides insight into the watching and buying habits of an estimated 10 million global consumers. Ad agencies and brand marketers rely on the company’s online measurement tools to maximize the effectiveness of fast-moving Internet advertising campaigns, so it’s critical that the company deliver ad performance reports quickly. Customers retrieved campaign performance reports through a web portal, which in turn queried a diskbound database to compile reports from tens of terabytes of ad-tracking data. However, customer satisfaction took a hit when slowdowns in data access began to degrade system performance. In some cases, customers had to wait as long as 20 seconds for campaign reports — an eternity in today’s need-itnow world. Even more troubling, slow database access caused an internal security system to time out on more than 50% of queries, and the problem only got worse as data volumes grew.

The Fortune 500 company, a multinational medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer, was facing challenges with its Approval for Product Release (APR) process. The process was outdated, paper-based, and relied on disparate systems, making it difficult to streamline and benchmark across products and countries. The old process took up to two years to complete and required stakeholders to write thousands of emails back and forth for a single product approval. With email-based collaboration, it was nearly impossible to determine who was working on the document or if additional changes had been made since the last email was sent. When there are potentially 50 different people who might have to make adjustments to a single document, duplicate work was almost inevitable.

The Central Bottling Company (CBC) Group, which holds the Coca-Cola franchise for Israel, wanted to mobilize its retail portal as part of a broader initiative to speed up the ordering process. Smaller retailers were still placing orders with on-site sales people and through an online portal. By mobilizing the portal, the CBC Group aimed to create a convenient self-service channel for retailers. The Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) needed to work with the largest variety of operating systems and offer superior time to market at minimal cost and with maximum internal support.