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REAL Solutions has skills, knowledge and experience - designing,
implementing and supporting the IT ambitions and business aspirations of
organisations across Finance, Retail, Distribution, Manufacturing, Life
Sciences and Public Sectors.
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Your business will benefit from our experienced project managers, technical
consultants and pre-sales analysts, co-ordinating implementation across
multiple platforms, locations and protocols.
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We have earned a reputation for technical excellence and high levels of
customer satisfaction by working with you, ensuring that our goals are your
goals.
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Viewing and Downloading Case Studies
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Select the case study you wish to view from those below. You will be asked
to submit your details in a short registration form, after which you will
be sent the document as a PDF via the email address you enter.
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Aon Warranty Group (AWG) Case Study
Aon Warranty Group (AWG), part of the Aon Corporation, a global insurance,
risk-management and consultancy company, needed to increase speed of order
processing for better customer service, without replacing existing back-end
systems. REAL Solutions helped AWG implement IBM WebSphere Application Server
and Rational Application Developer, and introduced staff to Java through the
90-day On Ramp programme. REAL Solutions and AWG developed AonConnect, a
WebSphere application linking client systems at car dealerships with backend
systems. The new automated order processing application cuts paperwork, saves
customers time, eliminates manual re-keying as well as reducing errors.
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Baxter Healthcare Case Study
Baxter Healthcare approached REAL Solutions to install and implement an efficient
storage solution capable of supporting larger volumes of UNIX and System i storage
as requirements increase. Rapid implementation of two Enterprise Storage Servers
(ESS), networked and connected to two SUN Fire 4800 Servers and 10 NT/Windows
Servers, with ongoing installation of 40 NT Servers and 2 System i CPU’s, managed
and purchased from IBM which resulted in a consolidated, managed storage solution
with significantly enhanced reliability and inherent scalability, to accommodate
planned business growth.
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Flintshire County Council Case Study
With numerous physical servers running around 350 business-critical systems, Flintshire’s infrastructure
was large and complex to manage. A planned migration to a new file server platform threatened to add
yet more physical servers, creating a potentially unsustainable burden on already overstretched IT
staff resources. Working with REAL Solutions, Flintshire consolidated 18 physical servers to logical
partitions on two IBM System i™ 570s, then added Linux® partitions to the same systems to handle the
file serving workload. System i technology supports three different operating systems in a single
physical footprint, with the ability to dynamically reallocate system resources in response to
changing patterns of demand; the introduction of Linux on System i platform enabled Flintshire to
decommission 30 physical servers; stable and robust System i technology provides flexible,
highly-available services to internal users and local citizens.
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ITNET Case Study
ITNET, one of the UK's most successful IT facilities management companies,
working alongside REAL Solutions, implemented the first IT outsourcing
contract by a leading postal services supply company on AS/400/System i.
ITNET supported by REAL Solutions now provides the company with a wide
range of dedicated AS/400 and System i infrastructure services supporting a
number of business critical and highly sensitive applications.
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Johnsons Service Group Case Study
Johnsons one of Britain’s largest textile rental operators and leading
dry-cleaning companies needed to consolidate and simplify their distributed
processing, streamline the sales process and speed up order processing whilst
facilitating expansion and diversification. Johnsons invited REAL Solutions to
review its corporate AS/400 strategy and architecture. Working together they were
able to centralise the processing, leading to the implementation of a powerful
eBusiness and CRM solutions. The outcome was a streamlined High Availability system
which improved control over resources (security, capacity planning, back-ups) and
increased sales through enhanced sales management pipeline and powerful yet flexible
e-business Infrastructure.
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NSPCC Case Study
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is the
UK's leading child protection charity. The challenge was to increase donations
by enhancing the Web site, rapidly and cost-effectively. The NSPCC is working
with REAL Solutions to implement IBM Rational Software Modeler, which provides
a comprehensive project design and communications tool. Requirements management
and documentation will be handled by IBM Rational RequisitePro and SoDA, while
Rational Unified Process will ensure best practices in project management. REAL
Solutions is also transferring skills to the NSPCC with tailored training courses,
enabling inhouse staff to respond quickly to future business needs. Revised
architecture allows the NSPCC to take advantage of componentised software that
can be re-used as the Web site grows, allowing expansion of fund-raising
activities and enhanced supporter relationship management. Inhouse training
provides cost-effective Web development, and total costs of Web operations have
been reduced.
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Park Retail Case Study
Park Retail started out as a cash savings scheme for Christmas hampers, and
subsequently diversified to include gifts and vouchers.The company needed to
widen its customer base and improve customer service by automating order
processing and payment procedures through a Web interface. With the On Ramp
programme from REAL Solutions, Park Retail's IT team implemented WebSphere
Application Server and used IBM Rational Application Developer to develop a
solution which links the Web site to existing back-end systems. This resulted
in less manual processing, so Park Retail can deal better with seasonal demand
peaks and increase data integrity, thus improving customer service.
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Scania Case Study
Scania needed to manage and maintain, timely, consistent, service and
scheduling operational reports, for a large fleet of working trucks over
15 distributors and 90 service points. REAL Solutions supplied and
implemented an IBM Enterprise Storage Server, SAN Fibre Channel Switches
and 3583 Ultrium Scalable Tape Library offering increased availability,
reliability and scalability of the company's customer service application.
In addition this enabled Scania to reduce its batch window form six and a
half hours to just three hours, bringing the companies application even
closer to 24x7 availability.
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Complying with Financial Services Regulations – Through Information Availability
(Visions Solutions White Paper)
Over the past five years some of the most wide ranging and demanding financial
management and disclosure regulations in U.S. history have come into force such as
the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley Acts. The goal of this white paper is to
explain the impact of specific regulations on information availability and to give an
overview of the range of solutions available. It also offers straightforward guidance
on how to develop effective Information Availability strategy.
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(Adobe Acrobat pdf | 100kb approx.)
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Demystifying Compliance (SkyView Partners Inc. White Paper)
Compliance has become a four-letter word to many of you. There are compliance committees, compliance
officers, compliance newsletters and more. What does “compliance” really mean and how does one achieve it?
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(Adobe Acrobat pdf | 75kb approx.)
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Object Level Security V's Exit Points (SkyView Partners Inc. White Paper)
The question regarding exit points is something we at SkyView Partners have been explaining and discussing
with various prospects and customers during the 5+ years. The issue is that of Exit Points vs.
Object Level Security.
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(Adobe Acrobat pdf | 56kb approx.)
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PCI Compliance (SkyView Partners Inc. White Paper)
The Payment Card Industry has a published set of Data Security Standards to which organization's
accepting and storing credit card information must adhere. Since these Data Security Standards
apply to all systems, one must do some interpretation to determine how the requirements apply
to i5/OS and OS/400.
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Gulliver's Travel Associates (GTA) Case Study
GTA, one of the UK's top 50 privately owned companies, has a Worldwide
presence combining the scope and speed of the Internet with its own unique
reservations system. Their network is run from their London head office with
two IBM eServer System i 840 machines working with an AS/400 Tape Subsystem.
The key to their 24/7 operation is their High Availability and Disaster
Recovery solution from Vision Solutions installed and managed by REAL
Solutions. Time zones are no longer an obstacle when planning a cost efficient
business trip or a romantic cruise for two.
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(Adobe Acrobat pdf | 553kb approx.)
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MIMIX Serves Peace of Mind to Wimbledon 
If Wimbledon All England Tennis Clubs' ticket management system fails during
the championships people will about it! Data and applications help Wimbledon to
maximise customer service and optimise revenue. The club has to be able to depend
on them – no exceptions! That's why the All England Club relies on IBM System i
servers, with MIMIX High Availability solutions from Vision Solutions all
installed by REAL Solutions.
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(Adobe Acrobat pdf | 543kb approx.)
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What Every IT Manager Needs to Know:
Turn Downtime into Uptime & Do More With Less
(Vision Solutions White Paper)
Know what your company wants to achieve and how to use the IT resources at hand to
get it all done. Fortunately you can do more by uncovering unused potential and
unrealised value that exists in planned downtime within the IT infrastructure. This
white paper explores three strategies that use information availability software to
reduce/eliminate non-productive planned downtime and turn it into optimum uptime for
your business.
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(Adobe Acrobat pdf | 100kb approx.)
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Keeping Availability on Track
How Availability Is More Than Just Disaster
Insurance
Even with increasing demands for real-time, on demand IT, many CEOs, CIOs and
IT managers still consider information availability software (high-availability
(HA) and disaster-recovery (D/R) solutions) as IT insurance policies - only
valuable in case of disaster. However today's information-availability solutions
can offer so much more. They're now ROI-generating investments that can add value
to your business on a daily basis.
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(Adobe Acrobat pdf | 4.3MB approx.)
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