At EMI Music Germany, decision makers use detailed business intelligence (BI) analytics to control all sales and marketing activities for new music titles, and to monitor sales success and profitability in real time. To monitor its sales development continuously and respond rapidly whenever necessary, the company analyzes approximately 50,000 sales transactions from five different countries on a daily basis.

Helifix is a market leader in the manufacture of wall ties, fixings and masonry reinforcement and repair systems. The company has 35 employees in its West London headquarters and manufacturing plant in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Helifix products are supplied worldwide, with a subsidiary in North America and business partners in Australia, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands.

Using the experience and results of the University Education Process Control (UEPC) implementation based on Sybase technology, The Russian Economic Academy of G.V. Plekhanov modernized its entire IT infrastructure by creating informational unity across the university. The Academy developed a new educational program management system and incorporated an innovative way of assessing the quality of education. This system created a new way of communicating among the students and staff, enabling staff to be more efficient and allowing the students to get more from their learning experience.

Since I'm in the middle of moving to a new city and need to get organized, I thought I'd roll a little application using SQL Anywhere, PowerBuilder, and Amazon Web Services to help organize my media collection. In doing so, I'm going to check out some cool features in SQL Anywhere, in particular, consuming Web Services.

Profit Tools is able to rapidly create an affordable, full-function, extensible and scalable solution that has been enthusiastically embraced by small to mid-sized commercial trucking companies. Nearly 200 companies have implemented Profit Tools; these customers are realizing significant bottom-line results.

Natexis Bleichroeder, Inc., a subsidiary of Natexis Banques Populaires, is a specialized investment bank based in New York with offices in several other U.S. cities and affiliates in London and Paris. The firm specializes in global equity sales, trading, and capital markets activities, and executes trades in more than 60 countries including the U.S., Europe, Asia, and emerging markets.

Founded in 1982 as a spin-off of the University of Ghent, Belgium, Bayer BioScience is one of the main innovation and research centers for Bayer CropScience. It is now a division of the multinational chemical, medical, and biotechnology concern Bayer AG. With its frequent mergers and acquisitions, Bayer BioScience required seamless evolution and future-proof software development, along with a means of meeting the exponentially growing performance requirements caused by scaling local operations into a multinational group.

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the largest trust in the UK. It provides acute services for the population of Leeds and is a regional center for the treatment of illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. The Trust employs more than 15,000 staff across eight sites and treats 125,000 inpatients, 65,000 day cases, and 700,000 outpatients each year. Its annual budget is more than £580 million.