SpringSource Case Studies
SpringSource Case Studies
The SpringSource suite of software products accelerate the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle. Nearly half of the Global 2000, including many world’s leading retail, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. Currently in use by many of the world's largest IT Operations groups, SpringSource Hyperic products manage some of the world's most complex Web infrastructures, including those of several Fortune 100 companies.
The list below shows some of our customers who are successfully using SpringSource products to improve their business results.
Featured Case Studies
Aegeon Accelerates Product Development
with Groovy and Grails
Aegeon is a Web 2.0 company focused on Enterprise Social Software solutions. Its principle activities are product development and professional services surrounding Spaceo.us, an innovative Enterprise Social Software platform.
“In a traditional Java project, we can spend weeks writing the initial code to set up the infrastructure, which is just the “plumbing” code. In Groovy and Grails, we can do that in a couple of hours with plug-ins. ”
“If we had built our prototype in Java, we would have only been able to deliver a quarter to a third of the functionality we produced in Groovy and Grails.”
“We have even greater confidence in Groovy and Grails now that it is backed by SpringSource.”
Anda Builds Robust and Economical Applications
with Spring
ANDA, founded in 1992, has become the 4th largest distributor of generic pharmaceuticals in the U.S. With over 7,000 items in stock, Anda’s product assortment also includes select brands, vaccines, injectables, medical/surgical supplies, oral dosage medications and OTCs/Vitamins.
“Spring is where I start on every project. It’s the glue that holds everything together. Spring is indispensable in enterprise Java development today.”
“Spring enables us to get up and running fast, with the functionality and security we need. I can’t imagine starting a project without it.”
“The amount of code in our latest application would require the work of a lot more people and a lot more time, if we were not using Spring.”
Energized by open source: Ditching closed apps spurred growth, utility says
BlueStar Energy is an independent retail electric supplier unaffiliated with any utility. The fastest-growing energy supplier in the nation, BlueStar is certified to sell electricity in Illinois, Maryland and the District of Columbia. BlueStar also provides green power and energy efficiency solutions to home and business customers.
“A shift to open source has been wildly successful for BlueStar Energy…”
CAS Severn Maximizes Development Resources with Groovy and Grails
CAS Severn, based in Laurel, Maryland, has been working for more than 30 years helping companies, government agencies and education sector customers maximize their IT investments by providing end-to-end technology solutions, as well as IT consulting, infrastructure optimization, enterprise process and content management, and operational support.
Read the CAS Severn Case Study
“In Groovy and Grails it is easy to build a prototype very fast and show it to the client. This is the perfect tool for prototyping.”
“A new developer can ramp up on Groovy and Grails in a couple weeks. It would take several months, maybe even a year, to get up to speed on our old in-house framework.”
“The great value of Groovy and Grails is less code, which means less maintenance, and that saves time. Because of the conventions, any developer that knows Grails can look at the code and immediately understand what is going on. This makes maintenance much easier.”
Spring Helps Cornell University Quickly Scale Application for Multiple Web Portals
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“It used to take up to four weeks of developer time to produce a portal and now it’s down to a day with Spring.”
“Spring enables us to provide more responsive service to customers because all portals get new features as soon as they are available.”
“When our time investment and developer resources on portal development are minimized due to Spring, this helps our bottom line and we can serve more organizations and reach more people.”
Credit Market Analysis Makes Major Productivity Gains with Spring.NET
CMA—the credit information specialist is headquartered in London with offices in New York and Singapore and is a wholly owned subsidiary of CME Group, the largest and most diverse derivatives exchange in the world.
Read the Credit Market Analysis Case Study
“Spring.NET has removed 30% of our development time, by providing the communication infrastructure between the layers of our software—and that 30% can now be focused on new features or speed to market.”
“With Spring.NET the cycle to find and fix a problem has been dramatically shortened. We used to take a week to resolve issues, now we can turn a solution around in a day.”
“We are using Spring.NET to differentiate our software in the market.”
European Patent Office Cuts Time-to-Market, Maintenance and Cost with Groovy Dynamic Language
The European Patent Office (EPO) is the patent granting authority of Europe, founded on the European Patent Convention, an agreement between 36 countries. EPO’s main responsibility is to examine patent applications and grant European patents, processing more than 140,000 patent applications per year.
Read the European Patent Office Case Study
“Groovy has allowed us to reduce the cost of our development resources by half. Previously, we used to have 8 developers assigned to these tasks, but now our team has 5 developers.”
“On the maintenance side, we move twice as fast with Groovy, compared to our previous platform. When you read a script written in our Groovy DFL, you don’t have all the Java syntax, you go straight to the point, making it easily maintainable.”
“When there was a major change to a data flow, it used to take a month at least…But in Groovy it only takes two weeks.”
eHARMONY Improves User Experience with Groovy and Grails
Pasadena, Calif.-based eHarmony, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is a pioneer in using relationship science to match singles seeking long-term relationships. Its services, available in the United States, Canada, Australia and United Kingdom, present users with compatible matches based on key dimensions of personality that are scientifically proven to predict highly successful long-term relationships.
“Groovy enabled us to quickly write scripts. I wrote the data retrieval script in a day, even with everything else I had to do. It would have added days to write the same simple script in Java.”
“Any enhancement we can develop quickly using Groovy makes a big difference to the whole eHarmony ecosystem.”
“Coding in Groovy is fun. You can try many different approaches in Groovy. You can go down a path and explore it to the max.”
EverBank Cuts Development Time with
Groovy and Grails
EverBank Financial Corp, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a private financial services holding company with approximately $5.3 billion in assets. EverBank, one of the largest privately-held financial services firms in the US, provides banking and lending products to more than 450,000 customers nationwide. The bank has received numerous industry awards including Money Magazine’s “Best of the Breed” and Forbes.com’s “Best of Web”.
“I estimated that the application would take me 3 weeks to develop in Struts. It took me about 3 days to get a working application up in Grails…Grails is the most productive platform available.”
“Grails takes less development time, so we have more time to address new features that the users want.”
“Groovy makes programming more interesting and more enjoyable, as you learn more creative ways to accomplish familiar tasks in Groovy.”
ExpertPlan Revolutionizes Development with Groovy and Grails
ExpertPlan, headquartered near Princeton, New Jersey, is a technology innovator in the area of retirement program administration. The company is a leader in the defi ned contribution market, providing private-labeled retirement solutions for thousands of companies and organizations with billions of dollars in retirement assets.
Read the ExpertPlan Case Study
“Groovy and Grails cut as much as two-thirds off the development process. I built the reporting application in 3 weeks…The estimate to complete the project on the old platform was at least 3 months.”
“Now we have SpringSource, one company to deal with for everything we want to have in the future—a simplified infrastructure, a more agile development methodology, a cloud, a virtualized infrastructure.”
“We are a small business competing against the big guys and we are looking for any advantage we can get. We believe Groovy and Grails will enable us to completely rebuild our site and our software to stay competitive.”
FIS Quickly Customizes and Upgrades Applications for Customers with Spring Web Flow
FIS, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, delivers banking and payments technologies to more than 14,000 financial institutions and businesses in more than 90 countries worldwide. FIS provides financial institution core processing, and card issuer and transaction processing services. The company maintains processing and technology relationships with 40 of the top 50 global banks, including 9 of the top 10. FIS has been ranked the number one overall financial technology provider in the world by The American Banker newspaper and the Financial Insights “FinTech 100” rankings.
“With Web Flow, we are now able to change the flows much faster, cutting down on our implementation time by 30%. That helps banks launch their websites much faster with our software, making our product more attractive to customers.”
“Now Spring Web Flow gives us more confidence to tell customers we can accomplish whatever changes they need with minimal effort.”
“When we cut down implementation time with Spring Web Flow, it helps us win new customers. Each bank has a specific timeframe during which they must open a bank … So it is very attractive to new customers when we say we can achieve implementation of the system in 4 months with Spring Web Flow.”
Spring Helps Intelliware Reduce Costs and Risk
Intelliware is a software development company that provides development, integration and testing services to healthcare clients. Intelliware's standards-based approach, its expertise with HL7v3-based systems, and its agile development practices ensure timely delivery of high quality healthcare solutions.
Read the Intelliware Case Study
“Spring enables a superior architecture over custom frameworks, which means testability is better, fewer bugs, and a more robust end product.”
“Spring brings a layer of consistency to the architecture, so it takes a less time for a developer to ramp up when they move to a new project.”
“Spring is a key technology for building flexible data set generation tools.”
Spring Empowers Iris Interactive to Deliver Flexible, Economical Software
Iris Interactive is an established Australian company specializing in Brand Driven Innovation software and solutions.
Read the Iris Interactive Case Study
“Today 100% of our revenue is attributed to the Iris Product Suite, which is based on Spring. The earlier versions of our Java product didn’t get anywhere without Spring. We would not be in business if we didn’t have Spring.”
“Spring has an explosive impact on our productivity…Productivity improvements are well above 100%, as a conservative estimate.”
“We are able to develop reliable products at an affordable cost to our customers with Spring.”
LinkedIn Ensures Positive User Experience with Spring
LinkedIn takes your personal business network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world’s largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, over 42 million professionals are on LinkedIn, representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies.
“For LinkedIn, Spring life cycle management translates directly to a smooth user experience.”
“All the employees at SpringSource are really smart and know what they are talking about. They have dug really deep into the issues, they understand our problems, and they solve them. ”
“There is no way we would be able to develop our application using OSGi or migrate to OSGi without a technology like Spring.”
LinkedIn, MTV Tap Spring to Develop Core Apps
LinkedIn takes your personal business network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Currently, over 42 million professionals are on LinkedIn, representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies. Formed in July 1999, MTV Networks Music is the world’s leading online music entertainment company, with 22 worldwide music destinations on the Web.
“Major social networking and media organizations such as LinkedIn and MTV Networks are leveraging the Spring Framework to build core applications that run their enterprises and Web sites. The open-source Spring platform is known for reducing the complexity of enterprise Java development.”
Logicalis Gains Customer Confidence and Wins News Business with Spring
Headquartered in the UK, Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions—delivering secure converged computing and communications infrastructure and services with operations in UK, US, Germany and throughout Latin America.
“Customer confidence that Spring is going to perform helps us close sales. When we propose Spring as an architecture, new clients are very comfortable.”
“Spring helps us get follow on work from customers because we can price a job at a point that makes us a reasonable margin, while still being cost competitive.”
“We like to use open source software but we need to have enterprise quality. Spring has helped us balance those requirements.”
Namics Delivers More Functionality for the Money
with Spring
Namics, based in Switzerland and Germany, is a consulting firm specializing in development of web applications for ecommerce, Intranet, brand communication and web content management. Namics serves companies in a variety of industries in Europe, including automotive, telecommunication, insurance, consumer goods and many others. Namics’ objective is to maintain long-term customer relationships by delivering on customer expectations, and the company has found that the application development environment can be a key contributor.
“Developing an application in Spring takes 40% to 50% less time because we don’t have to write the code for the infrastructure.”
“With Spring, we can deliver more functionality for a defined amount. We don’t have to tell customers that the budget limits our ability to provide what they have requested. We can now fulfill the needs of the customer more elegantly, and customer satisfaction is much higher.”
“Spring helps us achieve stronger long-term relationships with our customers, because we are able to deliver on the customer requests.”
Spring Helps Nimbuzz Improve Applications and Developer Performance
Nimbuzz, based in the Netherlands, provides a mobile social messenger application combining instant messaging, (geo) presence and VoIP. The free application enables users to connect with contacts across popular communities, including Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and social networks including Facebook and MySpace – all from a single application. Nimbuzz has positioned itself to become the largest global communications platform for seamless IP-based communication among mobile devices and social media platforms. Working in a cutting-edge software market requires the company to maintain cutting-edge development practices.
“Spring cuts down the development lifecycle by mega factors, saving a huge amount of time and allowing the R&D organizations to implement their own applications.”
“Our application has better performance because it is derived from Spring, and the services it offers are very robust, stable and scalable with high performance.”
“Spring has an immense impact on the development team. It improves the staff’s development skills.”
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Streamlines Development and Prototyping with Groovy and Grails
Northwestern Memorial Hospital has been recognized as the most preferred hospital in Chicago for 15 years. In 2009, 11 of Northwestern Memorial’s medical specialties were ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report magazine with six specialties ranked the highest in Illinois.
Read the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Case Study
“Within a week, I was able to build a prototype in Groovy and Grails that could talk to the backend system. If we tried to do that in Struts, it would take at least two months to get to that level, because Grails has so much boilerplate code already built in.”
“In the end, I can improve the user experience for our website, because I am able to quickly and cost-effectively add new features using Groovy and Grails.”
“SA developer can learn Grails and be productive within a week, because it is so easy and intuitive, while Struts could take up to 4 weeks.”
Spring Helps Object Partners Focus on Business Needs of Customers
Object Partners is a Minnesota-based enterprise IT consulting firm that specializes in building and deploying large-scale applications for leaders in a variety of industries.
Read the Object Partners Case Study
“Using Spring, we are more likely to hit the target delivery date that we promised to a customer, because there is less complexity, fewer problems get in our way, and we are more confident in what we are building upon.”
“Spring was the reason we were able to deliver at all, because time and money were running out.”
“Spring allows us to be more innovative.”
Orbitz Builds and Maintains Complex Network of Services with Spring
Orbitz Worldwide, based in Chicago, is a leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products. Orbitz Worldwide is one of the premier technology organizations in ecommerce today and owns a portfolio of consumer travel brands including: Orbitz, CheapTickets, ebookers, HotelClub, RatesToGo, the Away Network, Asia hotels, and corporate travel brand Orbitz for Business. Orbitz.com receives 6000 hits per second, and 10+ million unique visitors every day.
“On the front end of a project, Spring saves us a couple weeks of time that we are not working on the infrastructure.”
“We needed a flow engine and Spring was the only platform that could provide that functionality.”
“The penetration that Spring has made here at Orbitz is very impressive. Because it is so flexible, Spring has worked its way into every corner of our business.”
Quantel Accelerates Innovation with Spring
Quantel is a world-leading developer of innovative, high performance content creation and delivery systems across post, broadcast and DI.
“Spring makes our development, testing and research cycle much quicker. Using Spring has shortened out project development time by about a third and gives us a significantly more reliable and easier to manage system than we had previously.”
“Using Spring, I have already found about 20% of the bugs that I would not have found at this stage using our old process.”
“We were able to build a prototype in a month using Spring. There is no way we would have been able to build a prototype in the timeframe we had without using Spring.”
QuinScape Speeds Project Delivery and Improves Quality with Spring
QuinScape, based in Dortmund, Germany, is a software development consulting company working with customers throughout Europe. QuinScape specializes in the development of web applications, portal solutions, intranets and extranets.
“With Spring, we can develop much faster—a 15-30% increase in speed. Furthermore, when compared with legacy frameworks built in-house by our customers, we achieve up to a 100% speed up with Spring.”
“In the modular SpringSource dm Server…it is much easier to assemble large solutions…we are recomending this beneficial new technology to our clients.”
“With very good community support and SpringSource behind it, Spring is much more advanced than our competitors’ frameworks, and this really gives us a competitive advantage.”
RealNetworks Drives Innovation and Saves Time and Money with Spring
RealNetworks, Inc. delivers digital entertainment services to consumers via PC, portable music player, home entertainment system or mobile phone. Real created the streaming media category in 1995 and has continued to lead the market with pioneering products and services.
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“Innovation of new capabilities is critical to the success of the company...The modular way applications are built in Spring makes innovation easier and gives us more freedom and independence to experiment.”
“On our team, everyone’s morale is much higher, productivity is greater, and the quality of the applications we are building is much better - because we are using Spring.”
“Prior to using Spring, we averaged from three weeks to a month for a new developer to ramp up. Now, a new developer usually gets started on application development on the first or second day.”
Sky.Com Accelerates Release Cycle Six Fold with
Groovy and Grails
Sky is the UK’s leading entertainment and communications company, operating a multi-channel television service with 9.4+ million customers - a third of households in the UK and Ireland. Sky also operates multiple websites to deliver entertainment, news and other content to customers, and the company is the UK’s fastest growing broadband and fixed-telephony provider. Sky’s network of sites extend the company’s reach, attracting millions of unique users each month who contribute to over 1 billion monthly page impressions. The home page of sky.com links to content across a variety of sites and plays a vital role in helping Sky achieve its goal to increase traffic across all sites and gain new customers for its portfolio of services.
“Groovy is so much quicker and simpler to write code, so we can get applications up and running faster. With Groovy and Grails we can create a new feature in a week, when before it could easily take a month or more. I would not switch back to Java development, if given the option.”
“Now using Groovy and Grails, we release every week to production, compared with every six weeks previously.”
“With Groovy and Grails, a Java developer can become productive immediately … You can get started on day one.”
Spherion Boosts Developer Productivity with Spring
Spherion Corporation (NYSE: SFN) is a leading recruiting and staffing company that provides integrated solutions to meet the evolving needs of companies and job candidates. As an industry pioneer for more than 60 years, Spherion has sourced, screened and placed millions of individuals in temporary, temp-to-hire and full-time jobs.
“Spring has made development much simpler, and it has eliminated the maintenance and development hassle we had before with EJBs…By using Spring, we have reduced our development time by at least 30%.”
“It used to take about a month for a new developer to ramp up, but now it only takes a couple days with Spring.”
“We like the integration between Spring and Hibernate…We not only gain the advantages of Spring dependency injection, but we also get the benefits of using Hibernate to take care of mapping data to the database.”
Telecom Italia Speeds Delivery of Innovative Prototypes with Spring
Telecom Italia is Italy’s premier telecommunications company, providing fixed-line and mobile telecommunications, Internet, media and news in Italy, as well as throughout Europe and in Brazil.
Read the Telecom Italia Case Study
“Using Spring, our development time, debugging and testing is reduced by 30%. This is a critical advantage because of our tight deadlines for prototype delivery.”
“With Spring, we write better code. Better written code means it is easier to understand an issue and fix it.”
“One of the advantages of SpringSource dm Server, thanks to OSGi, is the ability to deploy different versions of the same library and share them between applications…this results in a lower footprint.””
TheLadders.com Maintains Competitive Edge
with Spring
TheLadders.com is the world's largest community catering exclusively to the $100k+ job market.
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“Every two weeks we are producing new software. We can’t afford to spend time on infrastructure maintenance. We need to be able to rapidly add features and applications and we rely on Spring to do that. Spring makes us more competitive by giving us this ability.”
“With SpringSource, I know our developers are going to get good training. The SpringSource trainers have been fantastic.”
“Spring lets us focus on the user experience instead of the framework, and allows us to meet our two-week release cycle.”
Traficon Meets Growing Customer Demand with Spring
Traficon, based in Belgium, is a world leader in traffic detection based on video image processing.
“We now have unlimited scalability. Theoretically we can go up to hundreds of thousands of detectors with a single system. This capability makes our company more competitive.”
“Spring and Flex/Flash technology allowed us to develop a much more responsive system.”
“We can fix bugs much faster in Spring…It is a great advantage to have the unit testing in Spring to quickly narrow down the possible sources of error.”
TYBRIN Delivers Enhanced Application Functionality and Reliability with Spring
Founded in 1972, TYBRIN Corporation is a premier provider of process-based systems and software engineering products and services.
“I built the application in one weekend leveraging components built on the Spring framework—saving six months of work. I would never have been able to pull that off without Spring.”
“Spring allows us to focus on the customer needs—the business element—and not the underlying infrastructure.”
“Spring gives us a competitive advantage when it comes to bidding.”
Wired.com Simplifies and Accelerates Development
with Grails
Wired.com, the online arm of Wired Magazine, is a cutting edge guide covering how technology is changing the world. Not simply an online version of the print publication, however, Wired.com delivers a unique online experience to 12 million readers around the world.
“The performance we have seen from Grails has been extremely encouraging, especially against other rapid development frameworks…In my experience Grails runs much faster.”
“Our developers are much happier developing in Grails because they can accomplish tasks so much faster.”
“Grails makes it easier to focus on what we are trying to accomplish.”
Spring Saves Time While Driving Innovation and Creativity at XebiaLabs
XebiaLabs, a subsidiary of Xebia based in the Netherlands, was established to develop deployment automation solutions for Java EE applications. Deployit, the company’s fi rst product, is a complete deployment lifecycle management solution that enables users to manage their middleware environments and predictably execute and automate application deployments.
“We don’t have to do anything with Spring, it just works, so we can spend time on our own features rather than on framework issues – 98% of our energy goes into our business logic, rather than figuring out how to make everything work.”
“Developers experiment with innovative new ideas because they can do that in Spring. Usually within a day we can get a feel for whether something is going to work or not, and that is because Spring makes it so easy.”
“Spring allows us to be agile and quickly adapt our product to changing market needs.”
Associated Newspapers Keeps Websites Competitive with SpringSource tc Server
The Digital Services Division (DSD) of Associated Newspapers (ANL) provides all online development and infrastructure services to ANL’s online portfolio of newspaper web sites. This includes the Daily Mail, UK’s largest online newspaper website, as well as Evening Standard, This Is Money, Metro and 150+ regional sites. ANL’s goal is to deliver websites that offer an engaging and satisfying experience for users and measurable commercial benefits to advertisers. ANL is part of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc.
Read the Associated Newspapers Case Study
“Test and live deployments are taking the developers literally a couple of minutes with tc Server – where they used to take up to two hours on WebLogic.
“With SpringSource support, we got one of the lead committers of Tomcat to actually come on site…He resolved the small number of issues we had in minutes. SpringSource support is something I would recommend to anyone switching to tc Server. It is worth it.
“ The throughput on tc Server is at least 3X greater than WebLogic and the CPU and load on the production servers is about half.
Springsource Enterprise Ready Server Delivers Seamless Server Upgrades and Management to Candystand.com
Funtank, based in New York City, is a leading distributor and publisher of branded online gaming and entertainment. The company owns and operates Candystand.com, the web's premier branded gaming portal which enables millions of users each month to play hundreds of Flash and Shockwave games – some of the most popular award-winning branded sports, arcade, card, puzzle and multiplayer games.
“Comparing the time between using ERS vs. doing everything ourselves, including downloading source and compiling different versions of Apache, Tomcat and everything else, ERS reduces our administrative time on application servers by 75%.”
“ERS definitely saves Candystand.com money in terms of the time we would need to pay our system administrators to administrate Apache and Tomcat. In addition, ERS makes it more viable to use cost-effective open source options such as Tomcat and Apache … the costs are drastically lower than using a commercial application server.”
“Security is extremely important to us at Candystand.com … Making sure Apache and Tomcat security is up-to-date, making sure any vulnerabilities are eliminated, is a priority, and ERS handles that for us.”
Apache Tomcat and World-Class SpringSource Support Keeps Web Application Up and Running for
Hallmark Data
Hallmark Data, based in Skokie, Illinois, performs circulation fulfillment for more than 360 business publications. The company provides everything from front-end clerical labor and call center solutions to preparation of digital and print subscription and marketing databases for reporting, marketing and audience development. The company’s web registration and subscription services are a critical component of Hallmark’s business. It is essential that the application—which allows readers to subscribe to magazines, as well as renew and update their subscription information, all via the web—is up and running and performing as expected at all times.
Read the Hallmark Data Case Study
“SpringSource support allows us to be more confident in our application environment…It is nice to have the backing of the pioneers in the field.”
“Each member of the SpringSource support team is an expert in their own area, and they are very knowledgeable.”
“Since the SpringSource team knows more about the internal workings of Apache and Tomcat than anybody else, they are able to provide greater insight. When I have a question, they are able to help right away.”
SpringSource tc Server Streamlines Application Deployment at
John Muir Health
John Muir Health is a not-for-profit health care organization that includes two of the largest medical centers in Contra Costa County, California—the Walnut Creek and Concord campuses of John Muir Medical Center. John Muir Health is recognized as a leading provider of cardiovascular care, orthopedics, neurosciences, cancer care and high- and low-risk obstetrics. Other areas of specialty include general surgery, advanced endoscopic and robotic surgery, weight-loss surgery and neurology.
“With tc Server, we have a more reliable and maintainable deployment strategy and it takes a lot less time. In the past, having to restart Tomcat, we could easily spend 30 minutes to an hour just setting up an instance and getting it running. Now, with tc Server, it’s a few clicks, and it takes less than 15 minutes to get an application up and running.”
“The alerting with tc Server is better than anything we have had before. I recently got an alert and fixed the problem in ten minutes. On the old server, there was a time when it crashed after hours and took about 4 hours to be notified and resolved.”
“tc Server cuts our problem resolution time in half. In the past…we would have to research what caused the problem. Today, tc Server gives us all the information we need to troubleshoot the issue.”
SpringSource tc Server Helps NPC International Stay Connected to 1,200 Locations
NPC International, based in Overland Park, Kansas, is the largest Pizza Hut franchisee in the world and is owned by Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity Group. NPC International connects to its 1,200 restaurants across the US via a web application deployed through the local POS system, providing a variety of essential corporate functionality such as payroll, vacation requests, compliance management, invoice approval and online employee training. The web-based system must be kept running at top performance to handle 170,000 page views per day by NPC International users.
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“Application performance is considerably faster since we moved to tc Server … We have been very happy with the performance – it is fantastic.”
“In JBoss, I never knew if the application was going to be available or not. Now, with tc Server, I know that … the application will be available.”
“The entire focus of our developers has shifted from cleaning up messes to making the next application better than the last one. Developers used to spend hours every week fixing problems caused by application downtime, OutOfMemoryErrors, and slow server response times. Now that we don’t have that instability as a factor, we don’t have as many issues to deal with.”
Phonak Deploys Dynamic New Web Portal with SpringSource dm Server
Phonak, a division of Sonova based near Zurich, Switzerland, is a global leader in the development and manufacture of digital hearing systems and related wireless communication systems. Using state-of-the-art technology, Phonak drives innovation and sets new industry benchmarks regarding miniaturization and performance. Phonak also contracts with Namics, a Swiss consulting firm specializing in web application development. Namics helps Phonak develop cutting- edge applications to support its global business.
“SpringSource dm Server provides the new capability to split an application into modules much more easily than we could in the past … The end result is cleaner code and a superior application structure.”
“We are very happy with the dm Server technology from SpringSource. This project has been a success for Namics and Phonak, also because of dm Server.”
“With the ability to deploy more than one version of an application at a time in dm Server, the two versions can be seen as completely different, but the Java types are the same.”
QuinScape Speeds Project Delivery and Improves Quality with Spring
QuinScape, based in Dortmund, Germany, is a software development consulting company working with customers throughout Europe. QuinScape specializes in the development of web applications, portal solutions, intranets and extranets.
“With Spring, we can develop much faster—a 15-30% increase in speed. Furthermore, when compared with legacy frameworks built in-house by our customers, we achieve up to a 100% speed up with Spring.”
“In the modular SpringSource dm Server…it is much easier to assemble large solutions…we are recomending this beneficial new technology to our clients.”
“With very good community support and SpringSource behind it, Spring is much more advanced than our competitors’ frameworks, and this really gives us a competitive advantage.”
Telecom Italia Speeds Delivery of Innovative Prototypes with Spring
Telecom Italia is Italy’s premier telecommunications company, providing fixed-line and mobile telecommunications, Internet, media and news in Italy, as well as throughout Europe and in Brazil.
Read the Telecom Italia Case Study
“Using Spring, our development time, debugging and testing is reduced by 30%. This is a critical advantage because of our tight deadlines for prototype delivery.”
“With Spring, we write better code. Better written code means it is easier to understand an issue and fix it.”
“One of the advantages of SpringSource dm Server, thanks to OSGi, is the ability to deploy different versions of the same library and share them between applications…this results in a lower footprint.”
The University of Illinios Identifies and Solves Issues with SpringSource tc Server
The University of Illinois is the premier public university in the state, operating campuses in Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign. The school is also the state’s largest educator with 70,000 students. In addition, the University of Illinois is a world leader in research and discovery, with an internationally renowned faculty.
Read the University of Illinois Case Study
“SpringSource tc Server helps us reduce the number of potential problem sources and focus on the areas where the issue might exist, saving us hours on troubleshooting a problem.
“By using information provided by tc Server, we can make improvements to the quality of our HR application… and the quality of our other applications improves too.
“With tc Server, we are able to manage the application as a whole, as opposed to trying to manage servers individually to make sure they are up and running and configured properly..That is a time savings.
Baylor College of Medicine Ensures Integrity of Groundbreaking Scientific Research with SpringSource Hyperic
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), located in Houston’s Texas Medical Center, is the only private medical school in the Greater Southwest. For 2010, US News & World Report ranked BCM in the top 20 medical schools for research in the US.
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“Our response time has been reduced to minutes with Hyperic, instead of hours or days. Now I know about issues the minute they happen. It is nice to be in front of a problem, to know about it before anyone else does.”
“If something breaks, Hyperic pinpoints the source of the problem almost instantly, so I don’t have to look through logs or spend days trying to reproduce the situation to get it to break the same way.”
“Hyperic has saved me money because I have not had to hire more people or farm out operations. There is a huge return on the investment for Hyperic.”
Brandeis University Keeps Critical Applications Up and Running Across 350 Platforms with SpringSource Hyperic
Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, Brandeis University is a private research university, as well as the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in the country. Brandeis combines the faculty and resources of a world-class research institution with the intimacy and personal attention of a small liberal arts college, serving more than 3,000 undergraduate students.
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“Time to resolve issues is significantly faster with Hyperic—at least twice as fast.”
“Hyperic has shown us that we are not making complete use of the resources we have today and it has identified where we can make improvements to maximize our investment in our IT.”
“Hyperic has helped us to be more proactive. It reduces the time it takes to respond to an incident. Response time has gone from hours or even a day to instantaneous.”
Chicago Keeps City Services Running with Springsource Hyperic HQ
Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) is the central IT organization for the city, providing services to more than 35 government departments as well as residents, businesses and tourists. DoIT is in charge of www.cityofchicago.org, the city’s official website, and a large, heterogeneous IT environment comprised of thousands of PCs and more than 500 servers running on Linux, Windows and UNIX. Because the city is responsible for a variety of critical services supported by these systems, application and server availability and performance are a top priority.
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“There have been multiple occasions where it would have taken us days to find and fix problems that we can now easily identify and resolve within hours with Hyperic. Now we know the minute we have an issue, and we can resolve it before we have a real problem.”
“We chose Hyperic because it offers a great feature set backed by a great support organization, with a reasonable price tag.”
“We had Hyperic professional services on site to help us through the implementation and an upgrade, and that saved us a tremendous amount of time and money. The team were experts in the product. They knew Hyperic intimately and they had direct access to corporate resources that were even more knowledgeable.”
Cloudera Ensures Data Availability and Reliability with Springsource Hyperic HQ
Cloudera is a technology start-up that provides enterprise-level products and services to users of Apache Hadoop, the popular open source implementation of MapReduce, a tool designed for in-depth analysis of very large data sets.
“If we didn’t have a monitoring tool like Hyperic, our engineers would most likely be the ones to tell us when a machine is down and that would mean significant changes to our uptime. We would go from the 4-9s that we get with Hyperic to 2-9s or even 1-9, depending on how long it took our engineers to tell us about issues.”
“It is easy for someone to learn Hyperic and make it work. The learning curve is much less and it is backed by a nice GUI, helpful documentation and great support staff. Hyperic is also very easy to manage compared to other tools out there.”
“The biggest win with Hyperic was the excellent support staff. I have been very impressed with SpringSource tech support. We always receive timely responses, and everyone we talk to is very smart, very nice and always able to help us.”
Hyperic Flexible Monitoring Helps High-Growth Managed Hosting Provider Meet Tough Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Contegix provides high-level managed hosting solutions for enterprise applications. Contegix delivers proactive, passionate support that is unparalleled in the industry. Contegix is now a national company with a hard-won reputation for reliable hosting, reasonable pricing and expert support that goes beyond managed hosting.
“We were immediately impressed with Hyperic’s Auto-Discovery feature. It provided us with instant monitoring for the majority of our key applications—even those that spanned virtualized resources.”
“With Hyperic, we expected to deploy a robust, easy to use management solution capable of scaling on demand. What we got was all that and more.”
“When you are in as highly competitive a space as we are in, the ability to add additional value to your customers can make or break a company. Hyperic enables us to be smarter about how our customers are using their applications so that we can help them make smarter business decisions.”
Diversified Check Solutions Deploys Hyperic HQ in Just Two Days and Achieves ROI in Under Two Months
Diversified Check Solutions (DCS) is the leader and provider of the most advanced technology in the check processing industry. DCS helps businesses and entities of all types that accept check payments streamline their payment process.
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“We have used both OpenView and Tivoli in the past and was pleasantly surprised to see Hyperic managed everything right out of the box. Their price point and functionality makes it the only choice out there.”
“With no experience using Hyperic HQ, I personally finished the project in just two days. The significant time and cost advantages over OpenView tipped the decision in favor of Hyperic HQ.”
“For any company that runs a service, a management system isn’t optional. Hyperic’s price point and functionality makes it the only choice out there. The amount of money you save is phenomenal.”
FareCompare Delivers Real-Time Information with Help from SpringSource Hyperic
FareCompare.com is an independent airfare shopping site with tools to help consumers find the best deals available on domestic and international flights, hotels, vacations and other travel. FareCompare also alerts customers to deals by email and provides real-time Twitter updates. FareCompare is a winner of Travel Weekly’s Magellan Award, and was listed on Travel + Leisure’s Top 25 Air Travel Websites of 2008.
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“We used to have an outage almost every day. Now that we have Hyperic, we only have an outage once every 6 months, and we fix the problem right away.”
“Hyperic has definitely reduced 50% of the performance problems we have…Instead of being reactive, we are proactive, solving the issue before the website goes live, and that impacts the user experience and the company’s reputation.”
“Hyperic has streamlined our jobs by providing a central solution to monitor our entire environment and get an answer in real-time from one place.”
hi5 Networks Grows to Support World’s 10th Largest Website with Hyperic HQ
hi5 is a social networking website, which, throughout 2007, was one of the 25 most visited sites on the Internet. hi5’s broad reach and ad-serving platform allows us to provide marketing solutions for global brands as well as national and regional advertisers.
“Several of the management solutions we looked at were all the same, and we needed something customizable that could address our specific IT needs. Hyperic had all the features we needed to more effectively manage our IT resources, minimize downtime and improve overall IT system performance.”
“Hyperic was the standout—bridging the gap between professional open source and commercial software. It had all the features of the big boys, but without the cost and better suited for our specific environment.”
“Hyperic is like having an invisible team monitoring our systems around the clock, letting our operations team focus on scaling the business.”
iCIMS Provides Superior Customer Experience with SpringSource Hyperic HQ
iCIMS, based in New Jersey, provides recruitment and HR software, delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to 750+ customers around the world, including FedEx, Continental Airlines, Whole Foods, Amazon.com, Hershey, and many more. iCIMS’ goal is to provide the application via a single, easy-to-use technology platform, backed by superior customer service.
“Hyperic enables us to monitor all 3,000 sites and get very granular details, and this helps us proactively detect and solve problems before they impact our customers.”
“Hyperic is a great tool for root cause analysis…With Hyperic, we have gained a 10x to 50x improvement on how quickly we can diagnose and solve production issues.”
“Hyperic helps us keep a small production IT team and this helps us lower prices for our customers. We would have to double or triple the size of our team just to handle routine monitoring tasks.”
The Rackspace Cloud Automates Monitoring of 1,000+ Servers with SpringSource Hyperic
The Rackspace Cloud, a division of Rackspace Hosting based in San Antonio, Texas, provides on-demand scalable website, application and storage hosting, enabling developers and IT managers to minimize the hassles, investments and ongoing costs associated with dedicated hardware, while offering the ability to cost-effectively scale hosting resources.
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“Hyperic gives us better visibility into our system, so we can react to internal problems before they become external problems—and that increases system availability. Hyperic monitoring helps us keep our network up and running.”
“Hyperic saves hours a day that I would have to dedicate to checking all our different systems to make sure everything is working.”
“Customers are paying us to keep their sites live and fast, and we provide them with a 100% network uptime, backed by a stringent service level agreement. Having Hyperic in place helps to make sure that all systems are go, and we can keep our commitments to our customers.”