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Case Study

The Choctaw Nation Easily Converts Paper-flow into Electron-flow

Like every government, the Choctaw Nation must manage a myriad of documents. Birth certificates, marriage licenses, death certificates, historical archives, land titles, along with administrative forms, such as purchase orders, are but a few. Add to that all of the financial, legal and administrative forms and reports required by the tribe’s businesses and you begin to get a sense of the scope of the challenge it faced.
Case Study

Forms Keep on Trucking at Cequent with the Help of Fortra

To optimize efficiency, Cequent wanted a complete form production, management and filing solution that could automatically route documents to users’ electronic inboxes either based on the document’s contents or source or by using pre-defined routing definitions.
Case Study

Fortra Speeds and Simplifies Hotel Check-In at Borgata

A primary requirement for a signature-capture application is to reliably attach signatures to the document that was signed. Otherwise, guests’ signatures may be applied to contracts that they had not agreed to. The hotel’s old signature application kept signatures with the associated documents, but the process was clumsy.
Case Study

Fortra Software Gives AAA Carolinas a Life

With more than 800 employees, AAA Carolinas is one of the largest affiliates in the AAA organization. The company is headquartered in Charlotte but has 34 offices in the Carolinas and works with independent insurance carriers and agents in both states. AAA Carolinas’ insurance division’s document management process was slow, inefficient and costly. Agency underwriters and administrative staff manually processed, routed and filed hundreds of claims, reports, applications and files daily.
Guide

How to Manage IT Resource Consumption

At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be...
Guide

Commercial Clusters and Scalability

In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.
Guide

UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works

In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
Guide

UNIX Load Average: Reweighed

This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
Guide

The “LA Triplets” Quiz

This is a little quiz to test your understanding of the triplet of numbers that appear in the UNIX® load average (LA) performance metric.