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Move From Linux To Windows Server Improves Reliability For Building Materials Provider
White Papers Building materials provider Western Materials had a Linux-based solution for file, print, Virtual Private Network (VPN), and e-mail services that was unreliable, required constant support, and didn't integrate well with mobile devices.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Foxworth-Galbraith Builds Success With IBM SAN
White Papers For over a hundred years, Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company has been supplying lumber and building materials to professional builders in the Southwest. With locations throughout Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona, the company is one of the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Manufacturing/Distribution: Itochu Kenzai Reduces Printing By 190,000 Pages Per Month With Electronic Storage Solution From IBM
White Papers Itochu Kenzai Corporation (Itochu Kenzai) is a comprehensive building materials trading company that offers products and services ranging from the manufacture of building materials to construction, software development and sales.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Moore Has Trouble Seeing Past Silicon
News Although many believe the future of the computing industry lies with building chips out of carbon nanotubes or other novel materials, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted it won't be easy to replace silicon.
[March 10, 2005, 8:30]
Mechanics Of Materials Toolbox For Maple
Downloads Toolbox calls to change old traditions in education process of the most complicated engineering disciplines like structural mechanics and strength of materials as well as to open new potential for mechanical design and civil engineers in machine...
[May 31, 2008, 23:16]
IBM Hopes To Use DNA To Build Chips
News Our goal is to use these structures as bread boards on which to assemble carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, quantum dots," said Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and materials expert working on the project.
[February 20, 2008, 17:33]
AMD Reveals Futuristic Transistor Designs
News The silicon-on-insulator design technique uses special materials to better isolate transistors inside a chip, with the aim of increasing performance and reducing power consumption. But researchers at companies such as AMD, Intel and IBM are working...
[April 3, 2003, 7:48]
Timna Chip Turns Back The Clock, Part II
News It can help in terms of bringing the cost of (a PC's) building materials down," said Roger Kay, manager of International Data Corporation's Desktop PC Practice. The result, based on the typical 3x multiplier applied to the cost of materials to...
[May 12, 2000, 12:40]
An Eco-designer Eyes Clean Tech
News Better yet, according to McDonough, a product - a shoe, car, building or carpet - should be made of materials that become "nutrients" to other products at the end of its life. For example, we can look at building materials and technical systems...
[December 19, 2005, 16:15]
Trend Micro Premium Support Program Is Gold Standard At Georgia-Pacific
White Papers Georgia-Pacific’s building products distribution segment has long been among the nation’s leading wholesale suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Turbo Construction Demo
Downloads It contains many tools for calculating building materials as well as standard construction requirements for different building projects. Turbo Construction is for people in the Construction Industry. This Demo only contains a small library of tools...
[February 12, 2006, 11:16]
Wood Products Manufacturer Streamlines IT With Integrated Electronic Data Interchange
White Papers Roseburg Forest Products manufactures and markets a range of building materials and specialty products to customers throughout North America. The company had migrated many of its business systems to a platform based on Microsoft software, but it...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Identity Management Case Study: A Major US Construction Materials Company
White Papers The client is a US-based Fortune 500 company that manufactures building materials for the construction and remodeling industries. The first challenge was the need for a holistic security plan to proactively mitigate threats of intrusion...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
AFS Exploring New Service Offerings With High-Yield, Money-Saving BladeStore
White Papers National Gypsum, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, manufactures and supplies building materials. Maintaining the systems behind National Gypsum’s operations is critical to the company’s ability to serve its construction industry clients.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
BaumitBayosan Improves Business Processes And Increases Profitability With Integrated Applications
White Papers KG produces building materials for distribution throughout Germany. BaumitBayosan GmbH & Co. The challenge was to implement a modern IT solution to respond quickly to business opportunities; minimize payment losses; and optimize business processes...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Leading The Pack With SAP And Unisys
White Papers Wolf Organization has been a leading distributor of building materials. Wolf chose Unisys for its hardware needs. Unisys also introduced Wolf to the Unisys enterprise-class Microsoft Windows NT servers that have received certification for SAP R/3...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
SAMSE Migrates To Linux-Based Platform To Improve Performance And Security While Reducing Costs
White Papers SAMSE, France's third largest building-materials merchant, has more than 100 points of sale, mainly located in the Rhone-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Burgundy, and Franche-Comte regions. The challenge was to reduce IT infrastructure costs by...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Lafarge Optimizes Career-Planning Management For Its Staff
White Papers Founded in 1833, Lafarge is one of the world's leaders in building materials. The issue was to unify the group's human resources and pay systems by implementing a single, all-encompassing human capital management tool.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mobile Version Of BuilderCentral Helps Manage Construction Projects
White Papers Wickes Lumber, one of the largest U.S.distributors of lumber and building materials, created its BuilderCentral software to help builders manage all aspects of the construction process. By adding a Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC version...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Shide Group Streamlines Business Management
White Papers Founded in 1992, Shide Group specializes in the manufacturing and processing of chemical-based building materials. Shide Group wanted to establish a robust business management platform to oversee operations and boost information sharing within the...
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