In this week’s installment of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop, we feature IT
project activity at 7-Eleven, InterContinental Hotels Group, New York Life and
several state goverments. 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.
IT Projects: The Inside Scoop (July 27, 2011)
| Company | Location | Project/s |
|---|---|---|
| 7-Eleven | Dallas, TX | Upgrades to IBM Power7 Systems for IT production and disaster recovery environments. Completes major virtualization of its Intel environment, on IBM servers. |
| Belk | Charlotte, NC | Selects Oracle Retail Merchandising System as part of company-wide initiative to revamp or replace core processes and operations supporting its e-commerce site and 304 stores in 16 Southern states. |
| Botsford Hospital | Farmington Hills, MI | ACS is currently implementing McKesson’s Paragon EMR. Project completion is scheduled for October 2011. |
| InterContinental Hotels Group | Miami, FL | Moving 25,000 office workers off of Microsoft e-mail and Office applications and onto Google’s Web-based alternatives; 6,000 have been converted to date. |
| Keen | Portland, OR | Currently implementing SAP. |
| New York Life | New York, NY | Upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2010. Integrating Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 and OCS/Lync. |
| Olmsted Medical Center | Rochester, MN | Have implemented Microsoft Lync. |
| Qualcomm | San Diego, CA | Has deployed Oracle Identity Federation. |
| State of Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | Hackers have broken into the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s computers, downloaded and released hundreds of law-enforcement files. |
| State of Connecticut | Hartford, CT | DOIT merged with DAS on July 1, 2011. |
| State of Wyoming | Cheyenne, WY | 10,000 of Wyoming’s state employees have now migrated to Google Apps for Government. |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | Migrating 30,000 students to the Google email service and other applications. |
Source: CIO Insight / DiscoverOrg, July 26, 2011.