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ASSIGNMENT

IT for Managers

case study : developments of industries

after implementing I T.


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INTRODUCTION

This assignment deals with survival of several Industries

including Domestic, National, International, international

market leader, International market follower from various

problems after implementing Information Technology as

well as software solutions.

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1: DOMESTIC INDUSTRY

ASIAN PAINTS

Industry:

Paint manufacturing

Customer Profile:

Asian Paints is India's largest paint company and among

the top ten decorative coatings companies in the world

today, with revenues of INR 25.6 billion ranks(Approx. U.S.$585 million) in 2004-05 financial year.

Business Situation:

Asian Paints expanded its business around the globe, in

some cases acquiring companies. Each one of these

Subsidiaries had its own IT infrastructure, maintenance

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of which was a big issue with the corporate IT team.

Supporting this diverse infrastructure required IT staff

time and skills in multiple technologies and platforms.

Solution:

Asian Paints executives decided to standardize on one

platform, Microsoft Business SolutionsNavision

version 3.7, for its operations in 22 countries outside ofIndia.

Benefits:

Standardized technology platform reduces IT

administration. Faster, quicker, improved data flow to parent

company and regional teams.

Removes the need for double reporting.

Multilingual software integrates companies across

the glob

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2 : NATIONAL INDUSTRY

OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPERATION OF

INDIA

Customer Profile:

ONGC, a horizontally integrated petroleum company, is

Indias most profitable corporation.It comes under

NAVARATHNA position. The company contributes 77

percent of Indias crude oil and 81 percent of natural gas

production. The Uran complex of ONGC is a receiving

on-shore point for oil and gas from its offshore

installations.

Business situation:

The main production of oil and natural gas is from Two

units such as Ethane Propane Recovery Unit (EPRU) andCondensate Fractionation Unit(CFU-II)Implementing

Honeywells advanced process control Software, Oil

and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), India,

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increased output by 8655 tons per annum

from two units. The installed solution includes

Profit Controller, based on Honeywells

patented Robust Multivariable Predictive

Control Technology (RMPCT).

Project goals for the EPRU included:

Increase plant throughput

Minimize C2 content in lean gas Maximize chilling and separation in all sub-units

including de-methaniser

Optimize reflux to de-methaniser column

Project goals for the CFU-II included:

Maximize LPG and LAN production while honoringthe product specification limits

Optimize stripper column operation through steam

consumption

Optimize LPG column operation through steam

consumption and reflux rate

Solution:

Engineers from ONGC and Honeywell worked together

to implement a multivariable predictive controller and

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inferential property prediction package based on

Honeywells Profit Controller offering. Profit Controller

was implemented on the EPRU and CFU-II. Tuning Profit

Controller was easily accomplished with a standard

interface, Profit Viewer. All values entered in the

advanced process control graphics were checked with the

values observed in Profit Viewer.

The ability of the controller to reject various disturbances

was easily seen in simulations. Simulations also providedan opportunity for setting the tuning parameters to

reasonable initial values.

All the important product qualities were effectively

predicted online using Honeywells Profit SensorPro

technology.

Profit Controller performs the following functions in

the EPRU unit:

Controls methane at the bottom by manipulating the

column overhead pressure, column bottom

temperature, and reflux flow Controls ethane in overheads by manipulating the

column overhead pressure, top temperature, and

reflux flow

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Profit Controller performs the following functions in

the CFU-II unit:

Achieves the maximization of LPG by manipulatingthe column overhead pressure, column temperature,

and reflux flow

Controls LPG weathering by manipulating the

column temperature, pressure, and reflux flow

Controls LPG C2 content by manipulating the

stripper column temperature Controls LAN RVP by manipulating the column

bottom temperature

BENEFITS:

ONGC, a horizontally integrated petroleum company, is

Indias most profitable corporation. The company

contributes 77 percent of Indias crude oil and 81 percent

of natural gas production. The Uran complex of ONGC is

a receiving on-shore point for oil and gas from its

offshore installations.

The Profit Controller implementation helped ONGC:

Increase production by 7255 tpa from the Ethane

Propane Recovery Unit (EPRU)

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Increase LPG and LAN yield by 1400 tpa from

Condensate Fractionation Unit (CFU-II)

Achieve a smooth and robust operation

Maximize unit throughput, improve product quality,

and minimize energy usage

In addition, the following installation benefits were realized:

The project paid for itself in just two months The optimizer speed feature enabled easy tuning for

disturbance absorption and the gradual introduction

of the full optimization

Minimal effort was required to tune and commission

the Profit Controller

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3: INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY

INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY

International insurance company is a leading global

provider of business and personal insurance products.

The organization lacked a strong software asset

management (SAM) process and was unable to accurately

match software deployments with contracted product

volumes per the terms of the maintenance agreement. In

particular, it was difficult to track changes in their Oracle

license consumption that occurred due to application

consolidation, retirement or hardware changes.But after

implementing I T, It saved more than 50% on oracle

renewal.

Corporate Profile:

This customer is a leading provider of business andpersonal insurance products in the Asia Pacific region and

beyond, with operations in seven countries. With 2008

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revenue in excess of $7B and more than 12,000

employees worldwide, it is truly a global enterprise.

The Challenge :

The customer has a substantial investment in Oracle

databases and applications, such as SAP, that run on the

Oracle platform. Its current agreement with Oracle is a

standard yearly rollover of maintenance, with annual

payments that exceed seven figures. The organizationlacked a strong software asset management (SAM)

process and was unable to accurately match software

deployments with contracted product volumes per the

terms of the maintenance agreement. In particular, it was

difficult to track

changes in their Oracle license consumption that occurred

due to application consolidation, retirement or hardware

changes.

Oracle offers two different license models Named User

Plus (NUP) and Processor-based licensing, both of which

are complex. The user based license requires the

organization to keep track of all users accessing the

Oracle database either directly or through various front-

end applications. Processor licenses require in-depth

knowledge of the underlying

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server hardware, since they are a function of processor

type (manufacturer) as well as the number of cores in

each processor. Oracle licensing rules further complicate

the license management problem by mandating a NUP

minimum of 25 users per processor. Consequently,

getting a clear picture of how the deployment of Oracle

software was related to the Oracle software licensing was

a challenge for this insurance company, as it is for many

organizations.

The Flexera Software Solution & Benefits:

They selected FlexNet Manager for Oracle from Flexera

Software, which provides Oracle database discovery,

inventory collection and advanced license management

functionality. FlexNet Manager for Oracle uses twodifferent discovery techniques SNMP and port

scanningto ensure that Oracle database instances are

discovered across the entire network. By combining these

two discovery methods, FlexNet Manager for Oracle is

able to identify both known and unknown/ unapproved

Oracle installations. FlexNet Manager for Oracles agent-less inventory capability automatically collects database

configuration information and options in use for each

database instance. Support for NUP and processor license

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models allows FlexNet Manager for Oracle to determine

an accurate Oracle license position from this detailed

configuration information. The contract management

functions in FlexNet Manager for Oracle also allow them

to more effectively manage their maintenance renewals

for maximum cost savings.

Using FlexNet Manager for Oracle, the customer was able

to achieve significant Oracle software savings in a

number of ways. In the first case a new applicationrequired a sizeable Oracle database and the cost of the

database had been factored into the budget of the project.

With the Oracle configuration and licensing information

from FlexNet Manager for Oracle, the Vendor

Management team was able to show how the database

requirement could be met through a configuration changewithin the current database licensing expenditure. This

represented a considerable cost avoidance saving. In the

second case, annual Oracle software maintenance was

reduced by using the information from FlexNet Manager

for Oracle to adjust the placement of databases without

impacting performance. Prior to the FlexNet Manager forOracle implementation, the benefits of this activity had

been considered too uncertain to justify the effort. Lastly,

they achieved additional maintenance savings by

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determining that some systems were out of support and

that there was no justification for paying maintenance.

The combination of license resizing and removal from

maintenance has reduced their annual maintenance

payment by more than 50 percent. Hence, the customer

has already realized a return on investment (ROI) for

FlexNet Manager for Oracle of approximately 200%

within the first 6 months of implementation.

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4:INTERNATIONAL MARKET LEADER

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SONY ELECTRONICS

Sony Electronics Improves Collaboration, Information

Access, and Productivity after the implementation of I T.

Customer Profile:

Headquartered in San Diego, California, Sony Electronicsis a leading provider of popular consumer and

professional electronic products. The companys

operations include research and development, design,

engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing,

distribution, and customer service. Sony Electronics is

part of Sony Corporation, which is ranked as one of theworlds 100 largest companies by Forbes magazine. The

companys other divisions include Sony Pictures

Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, and Sony

Corporation of America.

Challenges faced:

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With corporate, engineering, research, and

manufacturing sites spread across the United States

and around the globe, Sony Electronics faced

challenges in communication across divisions and

between employees.

Without a robust collaboration system in place,

employees were exchanging ideas and plans mostly

through e-mail, which overloaded inboxes and

created document versioning issues Sony is also constantly seeking to innovate and

modernize its information infrastructure to better

meet the expectations and working styles of the next

generation of employees. Sony is placing a greater

emphasis on telecommuting, and employees want the

company to adopt the same types of socialnetworking technologies that they use in other

areas of daily life.

Additionally, Sony Electronics employees faced

challenges navigating the vast amounts of information on

the corporate network and tapping into expert resourceswithin the company.

Sony Electronics sought a solution that would support itsgoals to promote innovation through collaboration and

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efficient access to information and expertise acrosscorporate boundaries.

Solutions:

Given its positive experiences with Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007, Sony Electronics was

excited to accelerate its internal culture of innovation

with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The

company wanted to take advantage of new featuressuch as an improved user interface, enhanced wiki

functionality,and more robust search capabilities.

IT staff at Sony had also made a lot of customizations to

its Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. These

included developing forms with the Microsoft InfoPath

information-gathering program, implementing new

workflows, branding the corporate intranet, and creating

custom ASPX pages. Other customizations included wiki

tagging, FAST search refinements, and controls built

using the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in. As a

result, one of the important steps in the deployment of

SharePoint Server 2010 has been to move these

customizations into the new versions test environment.

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To address the companys search

needs,sonyElectronics also deployed Microsoft

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. This

software complements the search and integration

capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010 by adding

a more engaging and conversational search

experience, and context to provide specific search

experiences for different needs. It also offers

advanced content processing to create metadataand add structure to unstructured content.

Benefits:

To address the companys search needs, Sony Electronics

also deployed Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for

SharePoint. This software complements the search andintegration capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010 by

adding a more engaging and conversational search

experience, and context to provide specific search

experiences for different needs. It also offers advanced

content processing to create metadata and add structure to

unstructured content. Increased Innovation and Sense of Community

At Sony Electronics, innovation thrives on employees

interacting and exchanging ideas. To promote this

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interaction, the company is taking advantage of

SharePoint features that foster a greater sense of

community in the virtual environment.

Better Access to Information and In-House

Expertise

There is a vast amount of information on

the Sony Electronics intranet, and in the

past, it was difficult to narrow down

search results to find a particulardocument. Now, IT staff has indexed

internal documents with FAST Search

Server 2010 for SharePoint, and this has

made it significantly easier to track down

desired files.

Higher Productivity, Lower Costs, FasterDevelopment

The improved access to stored information

and internal experts translates directly

into cost savingsby avoiding hiring

outside consultantsand into time savings

and higher productivity.

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Software and Services

Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office Communications Server

2007

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Microsoft Office Communicator

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5 :INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOLLOWER

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., established in 1969, is one

of the top-ten electronics manufacturers in the world. In

terms of marker share, the company is the world-leadingmanufacturer of color TVs, TFT-LCDs, memory chips

and color monitors. It holds the number-two position in

CRT and DLP rear-projection TVs, laser printers and

DVD players. It is number three in mobile phones,

LCDTVs, microwave ovens and vacuum cleaners.

Business Situation:

Samsung Electronics entered into a business management

system with scenarios that can instantly recognize signs of

environmental changes and counteract accordingly. To

accomplish this, the company turned to IT as a lever tosupport this new strategy and, as a leader in innovation,

planned this IT project to provide insight into its SCM

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Solution:

Samsung Electronics judged that it must operate a market-

based SCM in order to make early detection of changes inthe global market environment and adapt to change

requirements in a short period of time, so it decided to

deploy Microsofts BI platform, including SQL Server

2008, to implement its market demand-based SCM.

Benefits:

Expected to increase demand forecast accuracy by

20%

Enhanced reliability of decision making

Highly reliable business management forecast

system

Decreased business risks through strengthened

simulations

Achieved 1000% ROI

Software and Services

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Windows Server 2008

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REFERENCES:

GlobalNavisionRoleoutAsianPaints.pdf

http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/enterpr

ise-license-optimization.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies

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