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Customer: Sparbank

Industry: Banking

Geography: Denmark

Business Challenge: For legal compliance reasons, SPARBANK must ensure high availabillity for mission-critical applications. The bank also required access to professional support and services for its application platform.

Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Service Bus

Migration Path: JBoss.org community project to JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Benefits: Guaranteed high availability and greater flexibility of SPARBANK's mission-critical application platform

“Running mission-critical applications in a bank requires a supported platform. Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware suite offers access to a complete set of services, including industry-leading technical support, certified patches and updates, long-term maintenance policies, and software assurance. Therefore it was a natural choice to migrate from the unsupported JBoss Community project to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platform.”
-- Kenneth Larsen, development team at SPARBANK

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Customer: King's College London

Industry: Education

Geography: United Kingdom

Red Hat Advanced Business Partner: Tier 2 Consulting

Business Challenge: To provide online learning materials and assessment tools virtually to dental students through a flexible, secure and cost-effective technology infrastructure with optimal functionality

Migration Path: The application was developed from the ground up using JBoss

Solution: The IVIDENT project (International Virtual Dental School, now known as UDENTE - Universal Dental E-Learning http://www.udente.org) is a flexible learning platform (FLP), conceived to deliver quality assured content and web-based education tools to dental students. The platform is built on Red Hat's open source middleware portfolio including: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Developer Studio

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, and jBPM

Hardware: Dell Poweredge 1435 and 2x Dual Core AMD

Benefits: To create an award-winning virtual experience for students, to improve the educational experience for both students and tutors, potentially improve ROI while reducing costs, to increase flexibility, interoperability and ease of maintenance.

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2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Superior Alternatives

Customer: State of Tennessee: Office for Information Resources (OIR)

Geography: US

Business Challenge: Implement a cost-effective, flexible middleware software, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, resulting in lower costs, increased performance and scaling for growth

Migration Path: Proprietary middleware software to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Consulting,
Red Hat Training

Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent support
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Dubai, U.A.E. - – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Emirates Group IT, operating under the brand name Mercator, a global provider of business technology solutions, delivering business transformation, process improvement and return on investment to more than 100 customers in over five continents, has standardized its IT operations on a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware after a three month pilot program..

In an effort to simplify its datacenter and reduce the total cost of operations for web server technologies, the Emirates Group migrated approximately 80% of its comparable servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat's middleware solution portfolio offers a certified and supported platform for other open source technologies, a critical factor for the Emirates Group when deciding to standardise on open source technologies.

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COMPANY: Union Bank, N.A.

CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives

INDUSTRY: Financial Services

GEOGRAPHY: Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

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

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COMPANY: American Family Mutual Insurance Company

INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Management Excellence

INDUSTRY: Property and Casualty Insurance

GEOGRAPHY: North America

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost effective centralized management solution for its 1,200 instances of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure

MIGRATION PATH: Ad hoc monitoring solutions to JBoss Operations Network

SOFTWARE:JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on 150 plus systems, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle DB, HP OpenView

HARDWARE: Intel based Dell x86 commodity servers

BENEFITS: Improved availability and reliability of applications, a monitoring solution that can manage a large number of application server instances, simplified management, enhanced management and monitoring, and reduced costs

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Company: Sherwin-Williams Company

Industry: Paint and Coatings

Geography: Global

Business Challenge: To develop and deploy functionally rich Web applications using a standards-based platform supported by a single vendor for both home office and field use

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Migration Path: HP/UX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: x86 servers

Benefits: Improve time to market of mission-critical applications. Increase staff productivity and efficiency using JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Higher-quality applications.

“JBoss has been a great fit for solving our primary business and technical challenges. We’ve accelerated the process of getting developers trained and up to speed. We’ve managed to get our arms around a vast set of web technologies by limiting our scope while providing our business users with the applications they need to be successful.”
-Alan Flowers, manager of the Java-Web-Integration Services team at Sherwin-Williams

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Industry: Education

Geography: United Kingdom

Opportunity: learndirect provides delivers online education, training, and advice for two million users, facilitating over 50,000 sessions and 10,000 new course enrollments per week. With systems needing to be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per week, there was no room for outages or failure. A reliable, high performance system was needed to replace learndirect's Visual Basic-based legacy system, which was outdated and costly to support. A requirement to work with the source code and to adopt the most cost effective solution led learndirect to open source solutions from Red Hat.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, JBoss Application Server 4.0.3, Hibernate 3.0.5, JBoss Clustering and current investigating JBossCache 1.4.1

Hardware: 4 x IBM Blade Servers

Services: Gold-Level JBoss Subscription, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Support, JBoss Training

Benefits: Immediate savings from choosing open source software with zero licencing costs. In addition, learndirect could easily scaled out its architecture as needed with no more incremental licensing costs An increase in system performance and stability with an application server which outperformed its proprietary competitors in extensive testing. The new JBoss-based learndirect system is currently running at 99.989% uptime Rapid development and time to market, thanks to the transparency of the software's source code

In terms of performance levels, JBoss Application Server actually came out as the fastest and this was a key factor in our decision as service levels to users are of upmost importance. As the evaluation continued we soon realised that JBoss competed extremely well with the proprietary alternatives and when we considered that scaling JBoss out as far as we liked would not create any extra licence costs on our bottom line, the decision was a very easy one to make – we chose open source from JBoss,” concluded Mather.

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Superior Alternatives

Winner: Booz Allen Hamilton

Submitted by: Christopher Dale

Vertical: Government

Geography: US

Website: www.boozallen.com

Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm with more than 18,000 employees serving government clients from more than 80 offices and has been recognized by major publications as a best place to work. Integrating the full range of consulting capabilities, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps government clients solve their toughest problems with services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.

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Customer: Incentive Logic

Industry: Performance-based rewards solutions

Geography: Scottsdale, Arizona

Opportunity: Transforming the infrastructure for increased scalability and agility.

Solution: The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and an interactive, hands-on workshop

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate

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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Industry: Retail

Geography: France

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.

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Category: User Experience

Winner: Daiwa Securities America

Submitted by: Steve Dunstan, Vice President / Enterprise Systems Architect

Industry: Financial services

Geography: New York, NY

Overview
Migration of 120 separate applications running to JBoss Portal using a series of unified templates. This enabled rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and hundreds of thousand of dollars in cost-savings.

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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.

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Category: Clustering
Winner: J. Craig Venter Institute
Submitted by: Pete Davies, Indresh Singh, Tom Dolafi, Chris Lemieux, Sean Murphy, Adam Resnick, Angelo Trivelli, Bryan Yu, and Saul Kravitz
Industry: Bio Engineering
Geography: Rockville, MD

Overview
Selected for use of JBoss messaging and clustering to provide the stability and scalability necessary to process in excess of 40 million traces in batch across a 2 node cluster that supports over 100 DNA sequencers (scaling to 8 nodes to process large collections of traces) while also saving the not-for-profit genomic research center over $500,000 per year in licensing and maintenance costs.

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Category: Return on Investment (ROI)

Winner: Kroger

Submitted by: Kroger Team

Industry: Retail

Geography: Cincinnati, Ohio

Overview

Selected for building out a shared infrastructure (grid) system on JBoss AS that deploys the majority of their mission-critical applications, boosting overall capacity by 40% and saving Kroger over $100,000 in licensing costs and $400 per CPU in yearly maintenance costs.

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