First Mortgage Services shifts conveyancing from paper to the IBM® cloud
Ten-year-old mid-sized company First Mortgage Services is doing for conveyancing what the government has already done for land title registration: eliminating the paper. With its web-delivered application for lawyers and lenders, First Mortgage Services are using IBM's Virtual Server Services to offer a paperless mortgage approval process that can significantly speed property transactions.
IBM's Maximo Asset Management software keeps Port's assets ship-shape
Port Taranaki needed to upgrade its asset management processes. It relied on a 20-year-old PC-based system for floating assets and paper records for shore-based
equipment, in order to get a total view of the company's assets and inventory. The Port has deployed IBM's Maximo Asset Management system to
take care of purchasing and inventory management of everything from ballpoint pens to forklift wheels and to manage maintenance of equipment for all civil, mechanical and marine operations.
Data that's easy to slice and dice
Senior finance managers at Teachers Credit Union wanted to automate importing data from the Core Banking system to TM1 to enable faster, better informed decision making. Teachers Credit Union chose to expand its use of IBM Cognos TM1 enterprise planning software for improved budgeting, forecasting and analysis.
From bricks to clicks: Building an online store in 100 days.
To broaden its reach and stay competitive during the holiday trade period, privately owned Brisbane-based retailer City Beach needed to implement an online sales channel. With Christmas rapidly approaching, they had only 4 months to establish online trading.
Smarter consumer insight on the cards with IBM
Hallmark Cards Australia Limited recently purchased a virtualised infrastructure solution to replace their existing Dell Intel infrastructure from Advent One.
Advent One and Hallmark worked in partnership to install and configure the hardware and VMware software and to complete the migration of the existing servers and systems from the current platforms to the new infrastructure. This will involve
migration of the current physical server based environments to
virtual images utilising the VMware virtualisation software and
SAN based storage.
Serving up Faster Sales Figures
Australia hamburger restaurant chain Wendy's is using a business intelligence tool to analyse sales data in near real-time, enabling it to improve marketing decisions in a competitive market.
Fighting online threats
As the number one website for buying and selling cars, Carsales.com.au is a potential target for cybercrime, a common threat for leading online brands. Phishing attacks in particular are notoriously difficult to tackle and Carsales.com.au needed an external solution which would help maintain its reputation as a safe online trading destination.
With the help of IBM, Carsales.com.au has been able to
significantly mitigate its exposure and risk to phishing attacks,
and are confident that its customers can continue to trade in a
safe and secure online environment.
Keeping track of patients
See how smarter location services systems helped one Melbourne based healthcare facility, Samarinda Lodge, keep track of wandering patients and save on staff costs using an innovative messaging and location system.
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