Case Studies

World’s Largest Pallet Leasing Company Employs Cactus RFID Solution for Asset Tracking

“Our focus is on enabling visibility across all the touch points in the supply chain,” says Puneet Sawhney, Global Program Manager, RFID, CHEP, “We wanted to use a solution that is scalable, easily deployable, standards-based and offers lowest total cost of ownership. We also wanted to ensure that the front end for data capture and reporting was user-friendly and provided easy customization to meet the needs of our different customers around the world.”

Community Hospital Integrates Radiation Therapy System with BizTalk Server 2006

“In the past, if the system went down we had trouble identifying the problem right away. We wouldn’t know about it until we got a call from the radiation oncologist, which meant the delay was impacting patient care,” Avril Cardoso, Manager, Application Services, The Credit Valley Hospital says. “BizTalk 2006 enables a smarter, proactive system that alerts us to errors in real-time so we can take action right away – before the oncologist notices something is amiss.”

Tommy Hilfiger Delivers Full-Scale Online Retail Presence in Less Than Six Months

“I've never seen an entire corporation come together so quickly under a single information architecture. To see what we're achieving, and the pace at which we're achieving it, is tremendously exciting,” said Eric Singleton, CIO, Tommy Hilfiger Inc. “We believe that the new capabilities we'll realize will result in an additional return on investment, such as compressed product design times and optimization of our supply chain.”

Unified Western Grocers deploys Cactus GDS Accelerator to improve business efficiency

"Cactus has proven itself to be a highly proficient technology vendor, and making the decision to upgrade to Cactus GDS Accelerator was an easy one," said Greg Vick, Executive Director, supply chain and e-commerce systems, Unified Western Grocers. "By achieving global data synchronization, we expect to achieve significant savings in our supply chain by reducing data errors and through better integration with our existing business processes."

HP Selects Cactus Commerce to Achieve Global Data Synchronization Compliance

"Cactus worked closely with HP Services to define the user requirements and fine-tune the GDS Accelerator for BizTalk software in order to meet the needs of their integration project and achieve mandate compliance by the deadline of January 2005," said Daniel Sweeney, Manager, Worldwide Enterprise Integration Services, HP Consulting & Integration "Meanwhile, the flexible and scalable design of the Cactus solution ensures that it will continue to support our future business initiatives that include extending connectivity to additional retailers and datapools, as well as offering this strong solution to our mutual customers."

Cactus GDS Accelerator for BizTalk Server 2004 keeps Energizer's supply chain going,and going…

"Energizer has successfully deployed Cactus GDS Accelerator for BizTalk Server 2004," said John Thompson, Project Manager, Energizer Holdings "As a solution that makes effective use of our existing Microsoft platform, Cactus GDS Accelerator has enabled Energizer to quickly and easily meet the global data synchronization compliance mandate, without having to invest in any additional software or hardware."

Cactus Commerce flattens the supply chain and connects Sony with its mid-tier dealers

To meet Sony's need for a cost-effective way to connect electronically with its mid-tier dealers, the Cactus/PwC Consulting team proposed SoftFusion™. SoftFusion provides an architecture that is based on Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2002 (BTS) and open standards such as XML and HTTP.

Doing More with Less, Compass Group Extends Industry Leadership with Microsoft Technology, Goes on to Win Vendor Award

“Starting with eCatering, moving on to conference room and facilities management, we may be looking at a complete reinvention of the way business is done in our industry,” says Chris Hulick, Division President for Compass Group

Community of Practice Software ported from Linux and PHP to Windows Server 2003 and the .NET Framework for Enterprise Class Customers

Simplify, Tomoye's flagship Community of Practice (CoP) software is built on Linux using PHP, Apache, and MySQL. When some of Tomoye's customers began to outgrow the current offering, Tomoye needed to build an Enterprise scalable CoP platform. The company considered and rejected writing a J2EE application, and instead designed and built a new, highly advanced, highly scalable Web application in C# for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system using the Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server 2000. The time to market was a mere 18 months.

Printer Supplier Projects 80% Drop in Costs and 15% Increase in Business with Supplier Enablement Solution

“We felt strongly that the Microsoft Solution for Supplier Enablement could provide TCS with what it required—a powerful and flexible Web-based commerce system that’s affordable enough for a medium-size business,” Dickinson says, adding that the Microsoft solution deployed is about one-fifth the cost or less of a more complex, customized solution. “It can handle the large number of SKUs that TCS has in its catalog, it can work seamlessly with online marketplaces such as Ariba and other channels with little customization, and it can integrate the front end of TCS’s new Web-based commerce system with its existing, back-end ERP [enterprise resource planning] system.”

Cactus Communications Uses Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) to Build Air Transat’s Vacation Web Site

Air Transat wanted a vacation Web site that would appeal to its customers. Their vision was to be the first in the field to provide online travel accommodations. Cactus, armed with MSF best practices, worked with Exit.ca to ensure that the site's second version would be spectacular. The result is the ability to build prize-winning Web sites in a shorter time frame and using a smaller staff, resulting in increased profits.