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Company: |
Astra Zeneca |
| Industry: |
Global Pharmaceuticals - maker of Prilosec |
| Project: |
Astra Zeneca (then Astra Merck) enlisted accenture to assist them with starting their new US operations.
There were many projects. One of the highest profile projects was the creation of a state-of-the-art sales force automation tool.
This tool, called Compass, would allow AZ's fledgling sales force to share customer and sales information freely amongst the entire
sales force and headquarters; giving AZ a strategic advantage in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry. |
| Our Role: |
Assist accenture with the creation of the front-end Windows application of the sales force automation tool. |
| Technology: |
The project was one of the early innovators of the store-and-forward approach for database applications. Oracle was used as the central database. PowerBuilder was used to develop the front-end, and Watcom was used as the mobile database. |
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Company: |
Cahners |
| Industry: |
Global Publisher - Travel, Retail, etc. |
| Project: |
Cahners had recently purchased Reed Travel, and embarked on an audit related rebate program to their customers.
Navigant Consulting assisted Cahners with rebate processing. A system was created by PriceWaterhouseCoopers to track the rebate program.
Navigant assumed the technology aspects of the project including the system created by PWC. |
| Our Role: |
Assist Navigant as a technology liaison between Cahners and Navigant. Monitor, upgrade, and maintain all project related systems. |
| Technology: |
The tracking system was created in PowerBuilder with a MS SQL Server backend. Processors utilized the tracking system and Access. |
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Company: |
Maryland State Retirement Agency |
| Industry: |
Government - Pensions, Retirement |
| Project: |
The MSRA was moving to a new Pension system. Part of the conversion involved moving their large volume of data from their mainframe to their new system.
Navigant was responsible for loading, cleaning, and transforming this data for eventual loading into their new system. |
| Our Role: |
Led the data clean-up and database conversion. |
| Technology: |
The extracted data was loaded onto PC servers running MS SQL Server. The very large database (VLDB) was unweildy and required innovative approaches to perform the necessary analysis and conversion. |
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Company: |
Monster Worldwide |
| Industry: |
Leading Online Global Careers Network |
| Project: |
As a result of Monster's outstanding growth, they were in need of release management resources to assist them develop and launch new business applications. |
| Our Role: |
Assisted with development and led the release engineering of major new applications. |
| Technology: |
The applications are developed in Microsoft .NET with SQL Server backend. Perforce is used as the release automation tool. |
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Company: |
TMP Worldwide |
| Industry: |
Leading Yellow Pages Advertising Reseller |
| Project: |
Create a new order management system to process their almost $1 billion in annual yellow page advertising sales. |
| Our Role: |
Architect the solution and assist with development. |
| Technology: |
The applications was developed in Microsoft .NET with SQL Server backend. MapPoint was used to generate advertising maps. |
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