American Airlines’ iPad Deployment and 12 Other Hot Tech Projects

In this week’s roundup of the hottest tech projects, we highlight IT activity
across 13 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies, including American Airlines’ rollout of Apple iPads to its pilots.

Information
for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at
DiscoverOrg and covers technology deployments, software implementations, and IT
department changes across Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies. DiscoverOrg
provides a constantly updated database of IT org charts and direct contact
information on IT executives in Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies.

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IT Projects: The Inside Scoop (September 26, 2011)

Company

Location

Project/s 

American Airlines

Fort Worth, TX

Rolling out
thousands of iPads to its pilots to serve as flight manuals. FAA has approved
their use as interactive maps and navigation charts. 

CareSource

Dayton, OH

Selects MicroStrategy-based
Mobile BI platform. 

Charmer Sunbelt Group

New York, NY

Currently implementing
SAP HANA in-memory analytics engine. 

Department of Veterans Affairs

Washington, DC

Has
added procurement of tablets such as iPads and Android models to its existing
enterprise contract.

HealthSouth

Birmingham, AL

To purchase Cerner
Millenium (EHR) for its 97 in-patient rehabilitation facilities in 26 states.
Also included are Cerner’s computerized physician order entry system and
medication administration system. 

Kelly Services

Troy, MI

Using Force.com to build
internal and customer-facing applications to extend workforce management
solutions to customers. 

McLane Company

Temple, TX

Has upgraded to the Oracle
E-Business Suite 12.1. 

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Norfolk, VA

Currently
in the realization stage of SAP implementation. 

SAP America

Newtown Square, PA

Has rolled out nearly
9,000 iPads as of September 2011.

Social Security Administration

Baltimore, MD:

Buys
land for 400,000-square-foot data center. 

Thomson Reuters

New York, NY

Chooses Workday’s Software-as-a-Service
offerings for human capital management and payroll. 

U-Mass Memorial Health Care

Worcester, MA

Migrating
data from its Pittsburgh data center and electronic health record and other
clinical data to a Siemens cloud-based system in Malvern, Pa. 

University of Kentucky Lexington, KY Pre-beta testing
Dell’s newly announced Infrastructure-as-a Service cloud.

Source: CIO Insight / DiscoverOrg, September 26, 2011

CIO Insight Staff
CIO Insight Staff
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