Case Study: Honam Petrochemical's Quest For Better Management Reports

  Honam Petrochemical Corporation (HPC), Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, this company manufactures and sells petrochemical products, including synthetic resins; synthetic industrial materials, including ethylene glycol and ethylene oxide for making polyester; automobile antifreeze solutions; benzene; propylene; and ethylene. HPC has about 1,700 employees, and its 2011 revenues were close to US$7.3 billion. It's a leader in Korea's heavy chemical industry.

    HPC's primary market is South Korea, but the company has set its sights on becoming a top-tier chemical company throughout Asia and achieving sales of US$10 billion. Honam plans to do this by strengthening its existing businesses, extending its overseas business, and developing new businesses. To manage its far-flung operations, HPC needs reliable reports that are able to accurately measure management performance and provide useful, accurate information for increasing sales and reducing costs. 

Case Study: Customer Relationship Management Heads To The Cloud

   Salesforce.com is the most successful enterprise scale software as a service (SaaS) and the undisputed global leader in cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Users can access Salesforce applications anywhere through an Internet-enabled mobile device or a connected computer. Subcriptions start as low as $15 per user per month for the pared-down Group version for small sales and marketing teams, with monthly subscriptions for large enterprise ranging from $65-$250 per user. 

Case Study: Austin Energy's Billing System Can't Light Up

    Austin Energy handles electrical, water and waste disposal for the City of Austin, Texas and surrounding counties, serving more than 1 million residents. It is publicly owned company and an arm of city government, and returns its profits to the community each year. The company has provided $1.5 billion in dividends back to Austin since 1976, which help fund city services such as fire, police, emergency medical services, parks and libraries. 

     Austin Energy has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the country, but its legacy billing systems did not integrate with smart meters and other newer technologies. It also lacked newer customer assistance options, like the ability to choose the time of the month that a customer prefers to pay bills. To modernize the billing system and to bring its information systems up to date with newer energy conservation methods, Austin Energy contracted with IBM in 2009 to create a centralized billing system and to run the system for five years.

Case Study: Groupon's Business Model: Social and Local

    Groupon is a business that offers subscribers daily deals from local merchants. The catch: a group of people (usually at least 25) has to purchase the discounted coupon (a "Groupon"). If you really want to go to that Italian restaurant in your area with a 50 percent discount coupon, you will need to message your friends to pay for the coupon as well. As soon as the minimum number of coupons is sold, the offer is open to everyone.

Case Study: Albassami's Job Is Not Feasible Without It

   If you live in a country with a diverse geography and a climate characterized as being harsh, with a dry desert and great temperature extremes like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and you need to move from one city to another, where the distance could be some thousand kilometers, you have two choices: to drive, or to fly and ship your car via a car transport carrier. Many people in the Kingdom prefer the second option. This has created a market for car transportation in the Kingdom that is the largest in the Middle East. Albassami was established to respond to these market needs. The Albassami International Group is considered one of the leading land transporters in the Middle East,


 

Case Study : LEGO - Embracing Change By Combining BI With A Flexible Information System

    The Lego Group, which is headquartered in Billund, Denmark, is one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world. Lego's main products have been the bricks and figures that children have played with for generations. The Danish company had experienced sustained growth since its founding in 1932 and for most of its history its major manufacturing facilities were located in Denmark. In 2003, Lego was facing tough competition from imitators and manufacturers of electronic toys. In an effort to reduce costs, the group decided to initiate a gradual restructuring process that continues today. 

Case Study: Knowledge Management And Collaboration at Tata Consulting Services

     Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT-Services, business-solution and out-sourcing organization that offers a portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services to clients all over the globe in horizontal, vertical and geographical domains. A part of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 108,000 IT consultants in 47 countries. 

Case Study: Should Business Move To The Cloud?

     Cloud computing has just begun to take off in the business world. The biggest player in the cloud computing marketplace is one you might not expect. Amazon. Under its Web Service division (AWS), Amazon has streamlined cloud computing and made it an affordable and sensible option for companies ranging from tiny Internet start-ups to established companies like FedEx.


 

Case Study: Piloting Procter & Gamble From Decision Cockpits

   Procter & Gamble (P&G) is one of the biggest consumer goods companies in the world, with 127,000 employees across 180 countries, 300 brands, and $82 billion in revenues in 2011. P&G is regularly ranked near the top of lists of "most admired companies" for its ability to create, market and sell major consumer products brands. A major reason for P&G's success has been its robust information technology and willingness to pursue new IT innovations to maintain a competitive advantage in its industry. 

Case Study: The Battle Over Net Neutrality

 What kind of Internet user are you? Do you primarily use the Net to do little e-mail and look up phone numbers? Or are you online all day, watching YouTube videos, downloading music files, or playing online games? If you have a smartphones, do you use it to make calls and check the Web every so often, or do you stream TV shows and movies on a regular basis? If you're a power Internet or smartphones user, you are consuming a great deal of bandwidth and hundreds of millions of people like you might start to slow the Internet down. YouTube consumed as much bandwidth in 2007 as the entire Internet did in 2000 and AT&T's mobile network will carry more data in the first two months of 2015 than in all of 2010. 

Case Study : Modernization of NTUC Income

    NTUC income ("Income"), one of Singapore's largest insurers, has over 1.8 million policy holders with total assets of S$21.3 billion. The insurer employs about 3,400 insurance advisors and 1,200 office staff, with the majority located across an eight-branch network. On June 1, 2003, Income succeeded in the migration of its legacy insurance systems to a digital web-based system. The Herculean task required not only the upgrading of hardware and applications, it also required Income to streamline its decade-old business processes and IT practices. 

Case Study: What Does It Take To Go Mobile

     This case is about firms go to mobile technology - show its customers new way that mobility can streamline operations, reduce costs, increase works productivity and enable power of real-time response. Mobile technology is a business models and activities which based mobile technology where firms need to designed and develop software applications for mobile environments. Mobile apps is different from that on PC. There are special features on mobile devices such as location-based services that give firms potential to interact with customers in meaningful way. Firms need to be able to take advantage of those features while delivering an experience that is appropriate to a small screen.

Case Study: Summit Electric Lights Up With A New ERP System

         Summit Electric Supply is one of the top wholesale industrial electric distributor in US. Its products range from basic commodities to sophisticated electrical components. Summit Electric provides many value-added services that help electrical contractors purchase electric supplies efficiently.

       Unfortunately, its old legacy information system could not keep up with the business. The old system could no longer process its nightly inventory and financial updates. Summit need a system that could handle a very large number of SKUs. Changed to new system ERP which is SAP that would require improve its business process and the way people worked.  

Case Study: Apple, Google And Microsoft Battle For Your Internet Experience

The three Internet titans-Apple, Google and Microsoft are in an epic struggle to dominate your Internet experience. They are competing on several fronts: digital content, from music to videos and books for sale in their online stores; physical devices from Apple's iPhone to Google's Android phones, to Microsoft's windows 8 phones. Each firm generates extraordinary amounts of cash based on different business models and is using that cash in hopes of being the top dog on Internet.

ASTRONOMY FACTS

THE 5 CLOSEST STARS TO THE EARTH

Traveling at a speed of 25K miles per hour (which is faster than any human has ever traveled), it would take you a little over 110,000 years to reach the Earth's Closest star, excluding the Sun, The 5 closest stars are:

1. Proxima Centauri - 25 million miles
2. Alpha Centauri - 25.5 million miles
3. Bernard's Star - 35 million miles
4. Wolf 359 - 45.5 million miles
5. Lalande 21185 - 48 million miles

LARGEST METEORITES FOUND IN THE UNITED STATES

Throughout the history of the Earth, it has been literally pounded by meteorites. In the U.s alone about 1,200 meteorites have been recorded to reach the surface. The 10 largest meteorites have been found in the following states:

• Arizona - 3
• California - 2
• Kansas - 2
• Oregon - 1
• Nevada - 1
• Georgia - 1

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Case Study: Facebook Its About The Money

Facebook boasts that it is free to join and always will be, so where the money coming from to service 1 billion subscribers? Just like its fellow tech titan and rival Google, Facebook's revenue comes almost entirely from advertising. Facebook does not have a diverse array of hot new gadgets, a countywide network of brick-and-mortar retail outlets, or a full inventory software; instead, it has your personal information, and the information of hundreds of millions of others with Facebook accounts.

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