Business Challenge: An aging, inflexible legacy system could no longer support Seedco's highly successful EarnBenefits program that helps low-income workers access a range of public and private benefits and work supports.
Solution: A web-based application built using JBoss Enterprise Middleware running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System, Hibernate Framework, JBoss Seam Framework and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Industry-standard Intel-based x86 servers
Benefits: The new application allowed Seedco to streamline the process of determining eligibility and accelerate access to benefits by qualified individuals. The solution also contributed to the organization's bottom line, as other non-profit organizations are licensing the software solution to use in their own benefits programs.
“JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extremely sophisticated technology that can be used to address almost every kind of enterprise problem. I really don't see any other offering that competes with it.”
-- Jake Kirby, Vice President of Information Technology, Seedco
Benefits: Cut development costs in half, reduced development time, increased employee productivity, and achieved greater stability
“I put my job on the line that JBoss would work, and I’ve actually benefited from that, given how many advantages we’ve gained from it. We’ve now done more than a dozen code releases based on JBoss and I’m very satisfied with my decision.”
–Gary Smith, manager of application development, Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Company
Business Challenge: Camden Council’s disparate data silos were restricting the customer service experience for its planning application process
Migration Path: Multiple databases, including: CRM - Lagan frontline; Tagish iCasework - self service e-forms and case management, both available on Oracle 9.2, Framework-i; Social care application, data available on CSV Files extracted from the system, and Northgate Housing application, data exposed by Web services provided by supplier
Solution: Camden Council implemented JBoss Enterprise Data Services with the help and guidance of Red Hat Consulting to integrate disparate data silos and greatly enhance the customer experience
Software: JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform (based on the MetaMatrix technology), JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate
Benefits: Reduced project cost by approximately 80 percent, reduced enquiry time by two thirds, and improved customer satisfaction
"The knowledge transfer that occurred during our site engagement means my internal team knows more about the technology and how to use it effectively. This component added value to our consulting purchase and lasted long after the consultant had left."
- Francois Mounier, integration and development manager, corporate ICT, Camden Council
Company:Brazil Federal Supreme Tribunal's Information and Technology Office (STF)
Industry: Government
Geography: Brazil
Business Challenge: Needed a service-oriented architecture that improved Brazil's Federal Supreme Tribunal's (STF) system integration process and the database and deployment governance in the STI (Technology Information of Office Secretary)
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Operations Network, JBoss SOA Platform, JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM, JBoss Rules, and Hibernate
Hardware: x86 commodity servers with Intel Xeon-Based Processors
Benefits: Reduced costs and increased agility, functionality, and flexibility with a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions
Reduced Costs By Migrating Its Web Application Platform and Building a Customer Information Portal on JBoss Enterprise Middleware
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Customer: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg)
Industry: Printing & Publishing, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Geography: US, EMEA
Business Challenge: Establish a new customer specific portal to enhance its customer relationship and provide internal business units with valuable customer insight; Evaluate and deploy an application server platform for its Java-based environment
Solution: With the help of Red Hat Consulting, Heidelberg built an interactive customer portal using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and migrated its proprietary application platform to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle 10g database, SAP R/3, Autonomy search engine, Interwoven TeamSite 6.5 (CMS), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit
Hardware: Virtualized servers and F5 Load balancer
Partner: Maris IT Consulting
Migration path: Proprietary portal platform and application server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Improved customer web presence with a central portal that increased services and information available, provided ability to use applications based on open standards in order to interact better with customers, suppliers and partners, reduced costs, gained excellent support and continuous advancements of its portal software, and reduced vendor lock-in.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: An aging and costly IT infrastructure was impeding the ability of Union Bank to scale to growth and respond agilely to changing market dynamics
MIGRATION PATH: UNIX™ on high-end RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based HP servers; Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux™, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform™, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: More than 150 Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Improved reliability and scalability, cut costs, and delivered new financial services and products to market faster
COMPANIES: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and Rivet Logic
CATEGORY: Optimized Systems
INDUSTRY: Publishing
GEOGRAPHY: Cambridge, Massachusetts
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: The HBP's ability to get new products to market and the quality of the customer experience at its e-commerce site were hindered by a proprietary operating system, a difficult-to-use legacy content management system (CMS), and inflexible customer-facing Web applications, which were negatively impacting the HBP's revenues and limiting growth
MIGRATION PATH: From a proprietary operating system running a proprietary legacy CMS application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running the Alfresco Content Management System
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Frameworks including JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, jBPM, Oracle Database, and Alfresco's open source Content Management System
Business Challenge: Provide an alternative channel for taxi booking to alleviate phone call booking overload during peak periods
Solution: Short Message Service (SMS) booking system developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam
Benefits: Allows customers to book a taxi anytime, anywhere using SMS in just 30 seconds, which means less waiting time for customers and more booking jobs for cab drivers
Business Challenge: Enabling a rapidly growing, high-volume, 24x7 business, through the creation of an agile and highly productive development environment for building and running mission-critical applications.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Migration Path: From many database centric Windows platform components towards a SOA enterprise architecture providing service orchestration, platform independence and loose coupling of coarse-grained application modules. The latter allows for an evolutionary approach to re-platforming of a very large enterprise system without a large up-front cost and significant business risk.
Benefits: A highly productive, flexible and robust application development environment that enables MedQuist to proficiently produce innovative functionality for customer-facing solutions and to quickly take advantage of newly acquired applications by efficiently integrating them into its DocQment Enterprise Platform.
“Our applications are mission critical and absolutely need to be available 24x7. Red Hat’s JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products just work, enabling us to focus on building industry-leading software, which in turn helps our customers reduce their costs and improve patient care.”
– Dan Garnett, Vice President of Product Development, MedQuist.
Geography: Hong Kong
Business Challenge: Rapid business growth and the expansion of its service portfolio made it necessary to replace website with an efficient financial information portal, and to leverage virtualization technology to reduce hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows and UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AP with integrated virtualization
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate
Hardware: Intel Xeon based servers
Services: Red Hat Consulting
Benefits: High-performance, flexible IT infrastructure delivered through the integrated virtualization technology in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 50-70% Reduction in software and hardware costs
“Previously, in the financial services industry, companies were forced to rely on proprietary vendors. We are using Red Hat because of our confidence in the company to meet our very high levels of availability, performance and security that are essential in our business. The use of Red Hat and JBoss has enabled us to save approximately 50-70% overall on the entire project costs and even more in annual costs.”
-Philip Choi, Head of Technology for Quam Limited
Business Challenge: Improving the efficiency of its demand-response network that helps manage energy supply and demand
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Benefits: Streamlined the complex workflows involved in aligning the needs of utilities/grid operators to avoid blackouts during peak energy-consumption times and the desire of energy users to generate revenues through better managing their energy use.
“It would be very difficult for us to compete successfully without jBPM. We could not deliver our solutions nearly as efficiently and cost-effectively in this extremely aggressive market without it.”
–Ed Kusnitz, lead platform engineer, EnerNOC
Geography: Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia
Business Challenge: Rebuild the All Homes Pty Ltd technology platform in order to modernise its website, ensuring an optimal user experience and equipping the site with support for future expansion plans
Migration Path: Outdated, costly software and hardware solutions to enterprise Linux servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Hibernate Framework
Solution:
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM xSeries x3550 and x3560 servers
Benefits: Experienced increased performance, reliability, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
Experiences 500 percent increase in website capacity after implementing Red Hat and JBoss technologies
Raleigh NC – February 13, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that The Decurion Corporation, a real estate and movie exhibition corporation, has achieved success with a full suite of Red Hat solutions. Since implementing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Global File System for Decurion's ArcLight Cinemas website, the company has experienced enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Migration Path: Pearl-based environment to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Faster development, greater scalability and “Ignited Performance”
“We have a very smart, fast-moving team and had set very aggressive deadlines for
taking our designs and re-factoring them in JBoss. “Instructor-led or classroom training wasn’t going to work. We needed someone who had detailed
knowledge of the entire platform, as well as of the specific applications and who could
go shoulder-to-shoulder as we tore into the code.”
- Frank Gartland, Vice President, Solution Strategy and Development, Incentive Logic.
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Opportunity: The aim was to free CAMIF from overly-complex nested systems and come up with a more efficient information system which was structured
by business activity, thus enabling more transparent and targeted intervention.
Solution: CAMIF has built its technical base using Open Source components and can now offer business applications as both development frameworks and cross-functional services. Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server, JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Rules, JBoss Messaging, JBoss Eclipse IDE
Benefits: There are currently three application groups that benefit from the new architecture, which now integrates open source solutions, including several modules from the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Project summary: The CAMIF Group, a multi-specialist distributor and the third largest French mail-order company, offers a range that extends from household appliances and personal equipment to supplying local authorities and from home furnishings to fine foods, without forgetting financial products. In 2003, the company took the step of progressively decommissioning their twenty-year-old HP3000 servers and completely revising the software architecture that was in place.
Category: Increased ROI Winner: Alintec Industry: Tech and Government Geography: Milan, Italy
Overview
Alintec (www.alintec.it) (previously Politecnico Innovazione), a non-profit consortium promoting technological innovation within SMEs and public institutions and technology transfer between academia and industry in Europe, was selected following the high return on investment (ROI) it achieved after the implementation of multiple JBoss technologies within its Internet-based Library Management System (LMS) for the Province of Bergamo. The JBoss-based solution increased library loan rates by more than 25 percent and the frequency of inter-library loans by over 30 percent. Overall, it has positively impacted the end-user experience in terms of speed and ease-of-use.
Selected by the community as the 2006 JBoss Innovator of the Year
Category: Service Orientated Architecture
Winner:RLPTechnologies
Submitted by: RLPTechnologies Team (see below)
Industry: Bio Engineering
Geography: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Overview
Selected for their use of JBoss AS and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform that has revolutionized how data is collected, enhanced and compiled to increase data-file processing performance by 70%, increase scalability by 400%, and enrich the timeliness, accuracy and quality of R.L. Polk’s data for the automotive industry.
Start-up shortens time-to-market, gains industry recognition Industry: Sales 2.0
Geography: Pittsburgh, PA
Opportunity: Build a high-availability Saas solution that could support product evolution, a growing subscriber base, and integration with multiple technologies
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Oracle 10g RAC cluster solution
Applications: Landslide (a Sales Workstyle Management Solution)
Benefits: Expedited time-to-market, optimized resources to improved product development, and delivered a highly secure, reliable solution that's recognized by the industry
Submitted by: Michael Simpson, CTO Industry: Healthcare Geography: Louisville, CO Website: http://www.mckesson.com
Overview
Selected for being the first company to employ the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform to integrate its varied healthcare software applications on one unified platform, saving approximately one million dollars in combined software and hardware costs and allowing the company to provide a more robust and enterprise-ready solution for patient care.
Selected for their use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JEMS to build a consumer-directed healthcare solution that was first-to-market, yielding immediate customer traction, increased market visibility, thus reflective of corporate leadership and success.
Opportunity: Build a hosting business providing excellent value, support, and low prices; implement scalable backup and restoration solution that could support phenomenal growth rates
Migration Path: Novell Linux Enterprise SUSE to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Hibernate; MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres databases; BakBone NetVault: Backup
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Series servers
Benefits: Helped achieve phenomenal customer growth rates by facilitating sales and customer support and supporting scalability of new backup and restoration system
Benefits: Gained huge efficiencies, saved customers up to one million dollars in total cost of ownership, and provided a reliable, enterprise-ready solution that helps provide high-quality patient care
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