Success Stories
USi helps organizations get the most value from their enterprise applications. See a sampling below of how our clients are enjoying lower total cost of ownership and maximum value on their IT investments using USi's managed services.
Medical Research Charity Improves Data Collection with Web-Based System
Organization Name: Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Industry: Not-for-Profit
Product/Service: Custom Data Repository
For organizations that deal with rare and life-threatening diseases, such as the United Kingdom’s Cystic Fibrosis Trust, collecting and interpreting clinical patient data is critical for more effective treatments, higher standards of care, better funding—and, ultimately, longer and healthier lives for patients. The web-enabled CF Patient Registry launched in April 2007 now makes data collection easier.
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Creating Ways for a Fast-Growing Company to Track Revenue and Boost Regulatory Compliance
Organization Name: IronPort
Industry: Internet Security
Product/Service: Hosted and Managed Oracle ERP System and Professional Services
Unlike some competitors in the email and web security space, IronPort offers standalone solutions as well as bundled solutions of network appliances, software applications, and services. Although it's a successful strategy for both security and business, this diverse approach creates a complex challenge. The company sought to automate and integrate processes—including its unique revenue tracking approach.
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ERP Implementation and Management Organizes Enterprise for IPO
Organization Name: Cavium Networks
Industry: High Technology Manufacturing
Product/Service: Application Implementation, Management, and Hosting
In preparation for rapid growth and an IPO, Cavium realized that while an integrated ERP system could manage its business, it didn’t want to build to resources to manage its ERP. Working with USi allows the company the flexibility it needs from its Oracle solution and reduces its TCO.
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New eCommerce Site Supports Expansion: Boosts Traffic, Service, Efficiency
Organization Name: The Yankee Candle Company, Inc.
Industry: Wholesale, retail, and manufacturing
Product/Service: eCommerce Site Development, Management, and Hosting
Yankee needed an experienced outsourcing partner to design, develop, and host a website to support aggressive growth plans for its consumer-direct channel. With USi building and managing Yankee Candle's eCommerce solution, the site adapts continually to new needs, expands web services to wholesalers, increases order efficiency, and grows Yankee Candle's web-based consumer-direct channel.
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Hosted Solutions Bring Efficiency and Reliability to Critical Business Systems
Organization Name: Arthritis Foundation
Industry: Not-for-Profit
Product/Service: Application Management
The Arthritis Foundation needed to find a more reliable—and cost effective—means for managing its critical business systems. Using USi as a host and application management partner, the Foundation was able to reduce overhead costs by 17%.
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Remote Application Management Improves Reliability and Security
Organization Name: Sterling Commerce
Industry: Technology – Computer Software
Product/Service: Remote Application Management
When Sterling Commerce wanted to upgrade its PeopleSoft system, it realized that outsourcing the application's management made sense because the company had limited internal resources, but it preferred to keep the application running in its own data center. By working with USi, the company was able to host its PeopleSoft in-house and finish its upgrade ahead of schedule.
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Using Outsourced PeopleSoft Financials to Control Costs
Organization Name: Sunburst Hospitality
Industry: Leisure
Product/Service: Rapid PeopleSoft Implementation and Hosting
When Sunburst needed to establish its own PeopleSoft implementation apart from its parent company, Choice Hotels, it called upon USi to help maintain the levels of service it required while controlling costs. USi provided a solution that separated Sunburst from its parent company, yet maintained the same features and functions the company needed, and USi deployed the solution in 90 days.
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Integrating Applications for a Complete Spend Management System
Organization Name: Rohm and Haas
Industry: Manufacturing
Product/Service: Implementation and Management of Enterprise Spend Management
Recognizing that its legacy spend management systems should be integrated with its ERP systems, Rohm and Haas selected USi to manage its Ariba B2B Commerce Solution. Working with USi, Rohm and Haas saw its invoice processing cost drop significantly.
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High Availability Website Increases Customer Satisfaction
Organization Name: Fortune 500 Financial Services Company
Industry: Financial Services
Product/Service: SOA-Designed Website; USi Hosting of Website
When this financial services client wanted to create a highly personalized customer loyalty portal for its credit card holders, it turned to USi. Once USi developed an SOA-based solution, the client experienced an 800% increase in the number of rewards redemptions.
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Systems Consolidation Eases Regulatory Compliance
Organization Name: XL Capital
Industry: Financial Services
Product/Service: Application Management and Hosting
XL was finding it difficult and time-consuming to consolidate worldwide financial information and meet regulatory requirements in its global locations. By working with USi to implement and manage a single global financial management solution, XL Capital's worldwide offices have continuous access to financial applications and simplified regulatory reporting.
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Customized Web-based Solutions Reduce Operational Costs
Organization Name: Coventry Health Care
Industry: Managed Health Care and Insurance
Product/Service: Custom Web Solution
Coventry sought a customized web-based solution that would tie together different plan-specific sites and make delivering and administering health plans more cost-effective. USi built a centralized framework that allows Coventry's content managers and IT administrators to deploy interactive websites without making code adjustments.
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