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  • Aermaccho : Aermacchi chooses Intel® processor technology for faster design

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:Greater computing power enabled more detailed simulations and virtualisation was introduced into the data centre leading greater efficiencies.

    ROI:The time required to run simulation configurations dropped by 70 per cent.

  • Aspect Capital Limited: Investing in Success

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

    Benefit:Optimises energy efficiency while using less space to deliver results.

    ROI:An 80% saving in energy used and a correspondingly significant improvement in response speed.

  • Alyotech: Motoring ahead

    Product:Intel®Xeon®processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Provides much more detailed results so that clients are better informed about the consequences and safety issues that a crash may have for their model of car.

  • Atos Origin: Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series helps Atos Origin lower total cost of ownership of its data centre environment

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Lower running costs and energy consumption. Improved performance

    ROI:Average power consumption was up to 20% lower

  • Audi: Audi Invests in the Future with Intel Core 2

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology, Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology.

    Benefit:Remote maintenance and comprehensive security funtions enabled

    ROI:Operations streamlined. Support costs lowered due to reduction in desk-side visits.

  • Autocont: eGovernment terminals across the Czech Republic remain available and secure

    Product:Intel Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Autocont can guarantee to recover a machine within four hours using remote management

    ROI:Using Intel vPro cuts the average time spent solving hardware and software problems by 34 percent, and cuts the number of site visits by 56 percent.

  • AVIT: Enhances performance and scalability of IT services

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processors 7300 and 5400 series

    Benefit:Proven performance gains across multiple environments form foundation of ongoing technology partnership

    ROI:Maintenance ERP system runs up to 60 percent faster on the Intel architecture.

  • AW Rostamani: Intel® Itanium processors Transform Technology Infrastructure

    Product:Intel® Itanium

    Benefit:Improved customer satisfaction, able to handle 40% more service requests each day

    ROI:Doubled process automation figures from 40% to 80%, reduced TCO while delivering more features and capabilities

  • Banco Popular: Transforming Business Efficiency with Intel® vPro™ technology

    Product:Intel® Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Reduced desk-side visits means more time spent on strategic IT projects. Remote power-up facilities also enable time and power savings.

    ROI:20% reduction in desk-side visits and a corresponding 10% drop in costs. Time to reconfigure a PC after hardware/software issues reduced from 24 hours to just 2.

  • Bankinter : Moving IT to business excellence

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Reduced the time required to restore computers following a hardware or software failure from about eight hours to two hours

  • Bank Sarasin : Bank zweiplus rapidly gains ground

    Product:Intel® Itanium® processor 9100 series

    Benefit:Bank Sarasin was able to meet its immediate objectives of underpinning the bank zweiplus launch with a reliable, high-performing and scalable system. It has also helped drive the new operation to quick profitability due to low software and hardware costs.

    ROI:Five months after launch the customer base grew from approximately 240,000 to 300,000, exceeding bank zweiplus growth targets.

  • BBVA : Banking on Remote support

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:As well as the ROI and productivity gains experienced by BBVA there was also an upswing in customer service. Though difficult to measure, the company noted a definite improvement as more employees were available to help customers, rather than being tied down by back-office requirements arising from failed upgrade deliveries.

    ROI:BBVA estimated a 348 per cent ROI within five years, a breakeven within one year and 5 years of productivity gains, amounting to a conservatively calculated net present value of USD 620,000 (EUR 479,000).

  • BMW : Intel Supercomputer Albert3 drives BMW Sauber F1 Team ahead

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:Albert3 is three to four times faster than Albert2 so more simulations can be carried out in a shorter time, while also being more efficient and it is now being used to develop new cars for future seasons.

    ROI:simulations can now be run up to four times faster

  • BMW : Refreshing benefits at BMW Group

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Balance hardware, energy and application licensing costs, while increasing performance

    ROI:25 percent performance gain

  • BMW: Driving Innovation from the Inside with Centrino

    Product:Intel® Core™2 with vPro™ technology, Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Overhauled client management and significantly reduced deskside visits

    ROI:Reduced power consumption. Problems remotely managed. Significant costs savings.

  • BMW: Boosting Aerodynamic Simulation Capacity with Intel® Itanium processors

    Product:Intel® Itanium processor 9000 series

    Benefit:More efficient and faster simulation leading to quicker prototype design for its F1 cars

    ROI:PowerFLOW* simulation software doubled performance. Far greater data interpretation accuracy.

  • BMW: Building a sustainable IT infrastructure

    Product:Intel® Centrino® with vPro® technology, Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:An expected reduction of in annual client consumption by more than 60% and annual server energy consumption by more than 50%.

    ROI:Implementing these measures is expected to increase data efficiency by 35-65% and save on energy consumption.

  • BMW: Greater Perfomance, Superior Simulations

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:The new workstations enabled design and engineering teams to process up to 4 simulations or calculations while simultaneously running larger calculations.

    ROI:Productivity has increased, the time taken to modify designs has reduced, and time to market has accelerated.

  • BMW F1 Sauber: Powering ahead on Leadership on the track

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:The team was able to utilise greater visual capability enabled by advancements, for example, in graphics technology. The organisation immediately began a full roll-out, allocating an Intelpowered workstation for each one of its engineers.

    ROI:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series revealed that Dassault Systemes CATIA V5*, a virtual design software tool, ran between 100 percent and 700 percent faster – depending on the task – on the Intel-based system

  • BMW SAP: Driving Infrastructure Changes

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

    Benefit:The open standard Intel-based architecture is easier to manage, has greater flexibility and is easier to consolidate than the old infrastructure. It is more energy efficient and offers even greater computing performance.

    ROI:Using the SPECint CPU 2006 benchmark, it found that the Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series performed 2.75-3X faster than the implemented RISC-based servers

  • Brembo: Brembo Brakes Accelerates Time-to-Market with Intel® technology

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:Brembo gains faster design data flow and energy-efficiencies

    ROI:Computing times have decreased fourfold: from 12 hours to 2-3 hours

  • Business and Decision Group: All Systems Go

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Virtualisation rates of 20:1

    ROI:The implementation of new hosted services is now far quicker leading to a 50 per cent drop in implementation costs.

  • Camozzi Group: For Camozzi Group, Optimal IT Management Means Data Centre Virtualisation

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor

    Benefit:Virtualisation strategy reduces data centre management costs and creates space, energy and operational cost savings.

    ROI:Intel Xeon processors with four cores perform 50 per cent better than the previous system with the same power consumption.

  • Capgemini UK plc: Superior virtualisation performance with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:New processor makes it possible to rollout out VDI to its development team

    ROI:Compiler suites return response of 5.56s vs 12.46s on previous generation of Xeon processors

  • c.a.r.u.s IT: Drug discovery transformed

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

    Benefit:researchers can carry out better, more in-depth analysis in a shorter period of time, leaving them free to concentrate on their day-to-day work. Ultimately accelerating and improving the drug discovery process

    ROI:ScreeningPort estimates that it will be able to reduce the time taken to visualise the combined results of virtual and wetscreening by 25 percent, and will be able to increase the number of compounds it can analyse by a factor of five.

  • CESGA: Setting the Supercomputing Standard

    Product:Intel® Itanium® processor

    Benefit:Quick processing speed and reliability of platform mean results are achieved faster

    ROI:High performance supercomputing platform enables ten timesmore calculating hours than previously

  • CERN: Intel Xeon helps to Recreate the Big Bang

    Product:Intel® Xeon® 5400 series

    Benefit:Able to more efficiently analyse huge amounts of data, enabling particle physicists to gain greater insight into the origins of the universe.

    ROI:Experienced a 10% performance increase. Similarly a 10% improvement in performance per Watt was also gained.

  • Clalit: Limbering up for a virtual future

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor technology, Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 series

    Benefit:Increase density in its data centre, saving on valuable floor space. Simplifies IT management and reduces energy consumption.

    ROI:Estimated reduction of operational expenditures by up to 90 percent, as well as saving on capital expenditures.

  • Computacenter: Participates in Windows® 7 First Wave Program

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processors with Intel® vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Computacenter is now able to make power management features more accessible than previous versions of Windows® while at the same time, giving its staff the ability to customize settings.

    ROI:Intel® vPro™ technology provides a stable operating environment where users can work and collaborate more easily and effectively.

  • Cuatrecasas: Translating IT into business excellence

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology-powered HP desktops

    Benefit:An evaluation of 600 HP desktop PCs powered by Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology showed remote power-down can save up to 10 percent per year on energy costs. The time to reconfigure a PC after hardware or software issues was reduced from 24 hours to just two, and desk-side visits were reduced by 20 percent with a corresponding 10 percent drop in costs.

    ROI:The evaluation showed that HP desktops powered by Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology can save an estimated 10percent per year on energy costs, since they enable IT admimistrators to remotely power off machines across all departments and branch offices.

  • DDS Dresdner Direktservice: Intel® Xeon® processors Simplify Server Operations

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor

    Benefit:Considerably simplified administration of server landscape by introducing virtualisation. Significant drop in operating costs due to lower power consumption.

    ROI:Server consolidation saved 40% of migration costs. Tasks such as data importing are accelerated by 300%.

  • Donald Gordon Medical Centre: Doctors on the move

    Product:Intel® Atom™ processor

    Benefit:Industrious doctors gain greater efficiencies from wireless network

    ROI:A pilot WLAN illustrated significant efficiency gains for doctors and requests for access were extremely high, leading to a full roll-out for all the centre’s doctors

  • DRV: Setting a new competitive standard

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor technology and Intel® Itanium® processor 9100 series

    Benefit:DVR gained real-time visibility into its transactional data which enabled far better decision making, improving both customer relationships and economic planning.

    ROI:One hundred percent uptime, Lower power consumption and hardware supported virtualisation

  • Fractalia & Vodafone: Multimedia sales experience sharpens competitive edge

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Fractalia is able to streamline workflows, improve the overall productivity and reduce the total cost of ownership of Vodafone’s digital signage solution with desktop PCs powered by Intel® Core™2 processors with vPro™ technology.

    ROI: System availability has increased from 97 percent to 99.3 percent, improving the customer experience

  • Fractalia: Five-star IT support

    Product:Intel® Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:The remote reboot and power-up features of the Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology have enabled Fractalia to virtually eliminate on-site visits to repair faulty PCs, improving mean time to repair and decreasing IT support costs per PC by 85 percent

    ROI:The combined cost savings from reducing IT support costs and minimising loss of revenue to hotels is USD 369,000 (EUR 290,405) over five years. This provides a return on investment of 524 percent over five years, and break-even after just two years

  • Gas Natural: Transforming business efficiency

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Time savings enabled by Intel Core2 processor with vPro technology remote power up feature will have a significant impact on current maintenance and desktop management processes.

    ROI:20 per cent reduction in desk-side visits

  • Green School: Viglen Helps Green School Drive Innovation in Learning with Intel® vPro™ technology

    Product:Intel® Core™ 2 processors with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Reduced downtime while providing the school with a faster more cost efficient network.

    ROI:Processing performance is 40 per cent faster and uses 40 per cent less power.

  • Host Europe: Intel® Xeon® Enables Efficient Web Hosting

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor

    Benefit:Server consolidation, increased server utilisation levels,reduced electricity consumption.

    ROI:Energy consumption reduced by 30% which results in lower electricity costs.

  • Hutchinson: Maintaining a leading position in the marketplace

    Product:Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series

    Benefit:Research and development speeds up, reducing the time to deliver optimised products to end customers

    ROI:The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with four cores doubles performance of the HPC

  • International System engineering company: High-flying IT

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

    Benefit:Proof of concept indicated that ISE can expect to halve the number of physical servers in its fleet, driving savings in administrative time, power and cooling costs. The virtual environment proved to be much faster and more flexible than ISE’s existing architecture

    ROI:Customer requests can be met in a shorter period of time, with capacity or processing power allocated to new projects or customers within as little as ten minutes.

  • IRIDE ENERGIA: IRIDE ENERGIA develops Environmentally Friendly Data Centrre

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor

    Benefit:Virtualisation propels IRIDE ENERGIA towards greater efficiencies and lower costs

    ROI:The project has today led to the consolidation of a total of two hundred virtual machines on only fifteen physical machines and cost savings of up to 70 per cent.

  • King Fahad Medical City: Intel® Mobile Clinical Assistant Provides a Mobile Cure for Care

    Product:Intel® Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA)

    Benefit:Improved clinical decision making and efficiency. Accuracy of data held also vastly improved.

    ROI:Time taken to access patient records has fallen by 75%. Costs per bed are anticipated to be reduced by 40%.

  • KL: Intel® Xeon® processors Deliver Tomorrow’s Data Centre, Today

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:Improved utlisation and energy efficiency of hardware in the data centre, as well as reduced costs

    ROI:Expected to reduce CPU usage from 100% to 25%. Greater energy efficiency. Annual cost savings of at least USD 180,000.

  • KL: Safegaurds it's Network with Intel® vPro™ technology

    Product:Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology, Intel® Core™ 2 processer with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Reduced management costs by helping increasing security and increasing efficiency

    ROI:Enabled them to concentrate on bolstering network security. Permitted them to outsource their reactive security and management requirements.

  • KL: Service levels climb, costs fall

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

    Benefit:Huge increase in service capacity enabled KL to provide enhanced service levels and develop new services. The cost of each transaction has also been lowered while KL has also gained greater energy-efficiencies and consolidated physical space in the data centre.

    ROI:The tests revealed an optimal virtualisation ratio of three virtual servers to one with a 285 per cent performance/ capacity increase in terms of the services delivered to users.

  • NoteBook Education: Education Personalised through eLearning

    Product:Intel® Centrino© processor technology

    Benefit:Students find learning more fun and motivational through online multimedia resources

    ROI:Increased student control over their own learning generates commitment to study and develops essential ICT skills

  • Onkosh: Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series boosts performance of unique Arabic search engine Onkosh.com

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Comparing today to last year, Onkosh.com is now able to grow about 300% in terms of the ability to crawl and parse new Arabic Content automaticvally discovered on the world wide web

    ROI:Just by adopting the Tylersburg platform, Onkosh.com already witnessed an increase of around 20% in performance.

  • Philips Medical: Intel® technology facilitates a Leading position by Doubling Performance Levels

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:Improved simultaneous visualisation and pre-processing capability of Philips' Extended Brilliance Workspace (EBW)

    ROI:The EBW showed a 100% increase in performance. Doctors and clinicians can make more rapid and informed diagnoses.

  • PLAY/NeuString: Improving performance of mission critical software with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Able to process data in a much shorter timeframe

    ROI:Performance increase of 230%

  • Provincia di Ancona : Ancona Province Reduces IT Operating Costs with Intel Technology

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Ancona Province cuts costs and improves efficiencies with remote PC management

    ROI:Estimates an ROI of 29 per cent in two years

  • Repsol: Repsol reaps virtual rewards

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series and Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series

    Benefit:Standardised desktop infrastructure improves availability and speeds development times; server virtualisation leads to a more agile IT infrastructure that better meets business needs and lowers total cost of ownership

    ROI:Server virtualisation has reduced the time it takes to deliver a new server from 40 days to 10, taking into account purchasing, supply, installation, configuration, security and customisation.

  • Rusal: Education Transformation in Russia

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor

    Benefit:The results of completed tasks and examples are entered via a wireless network into a common database which the teacher can look at after the lesson.

    ROI:The number of lessons that are carried out in a mini-group format has increased. This helps students to improve their teamworking skills and gives the teacher more freedom to wander round the class and interact with the students.

  • Secours Populaire Francais : Intel® vPro™ technology Enables IT for the Greater Good

    Product:Intel® Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Able to predict where additional support will be needed and act quickly in response to emergencies due to increased efficiency

    ROI:ROI of 50% expected after first 2 years, 226% after 5 years. Energy costs reduced by 23% in year 1.

  • SETAO : All Change

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Three times performance increase over the previous generation of Intel® Xeon® processors and doubling of virtualisation ratio

    ROI:SETAO estimated that it could save approximately 40 percent on energy costs due to the higher server consolidation ratio and greater CPU energy consumption management

  • Swisscom : Highest quality at the lowest cost

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processors 7400 series

    Benefit:Intel’s superior multi-core technology and reliability provides the perfect platform for a dense computing environment

    ROI:60 per cent better performance per watt compared to the previous generation, and 38 per cent better virtualisation performance for the same amount of power

  • Tandberg : Future proof Compliance

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:Compliance Appliance shows a 2x performance increase running on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, compared to the previous-generation Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series. Greater energy efficiency and virtualisation capabilities also help reduce costs and footprint in the data centre

    ROI:This can result in cost savings of up to USD 315,900 (EUR 248.140) over a 12-month period.

  • Technical University of Munich: Wide number of new possibilities with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

    Benefit:ABB considering building a distributed compute model

    ROI:Processing speeds up to 66% faster

  • Telefonica (IT): Setting the Virtual Standard

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series

    Benefit:Significant energy saving improvements and power cost savings.

    ROI:Increased responsiveness and availability is expected to result in an 80% reduction in new service deployment time.

  • Telefonica Prepay: Setting the stage for mobile growth

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 series Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series

    Benefit:Deal with a larger number of transactions. Improved system scalability and availability means more services can be introduced while its customer base also grows.

    ROI:With Intel Xeon processor 5300 series, Telefonica could deal with 428% more requests per second than before.

  • T-Systems: T-Systems uses Intel® vPro™ technology to Ensure Business Success

    Product:Intel® vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Increased productivity due to perfectly perfectly tailored IT workplaces. Increased efficiency.

    ROI:Managed Desktop Services save considerable costs thanks to the optimised workflows.

  • Tube Lines : Refreshing benefits

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:By applying remote power management, Tube Lines expects to reduce CO2 emissions by 32,371kg per year supporting corporate green initiatives and translating into direct cost savings of GBP 29,425 (EUR 32,720) per year.

    ROI:Reduced operational costs by 20 percent

  • Türkiye Finans: Virtual Banking

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processors 7300 and 5400 series

    Benefit:Virtualising with Intel® Technology enables bank to lay foundation for business growth and boost price performance

    ROI:30 per cent improvement in overall system performance

  • Turtle Entertainment: The Power of Six

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

    Benefit:Server consolidation enabled the company to reduce power consumption and cooling requirements

    ROI:Reduced Total cost of ownership over a 24 month period from EUR 149,840 to EUR 98,517, a 34 per cent reduction.

  • Union Investment (Computacenter): Union Investment takes advantage of Computacenter Shared Services to migrate to Intel Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ technology based systems

    Product:Intel® Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Security updates can be managed whether the computer is left on or off. Improved asset management. Ongoing commitment from Intel® to implement the technology. Partners gain technology that adds value to key Intel®-based IT investments.

    ROI:Desktops use 40 per cent less power with combination of Intel® vPro™ technology and energy-effi cient Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors

  • University of Plymouth: Viglen Helps to Reduce Desktop Power Consumption by 40% with vPro technology

    Product:Intel® Core™2 with vPro technology

    Benefit:Reduced carbon footprint, whilst also reducing TCO

    ROI:Desktops use 40% less power. Security patches can be installed day or night. CPU management greatly improved.

  • Umeå University: Intel® technology powers energy-efficient platform to drive breakthroughs in International research.

    Product:Intel® Xeon® processor L5420

    Benefit:Increase in energy efficiency and performance while keeping cost down.

    ROI:improve application performance compared with previous model reaching over 85% efficiency in HP Linpack benchmarking. 40% more energy efficient compared to previous model.

  • Virtual IT: Virtual IT Revolutionises IT Support with vPro technology

    Product:Intel® Core™2 with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:Remote management improved operational efficiency & significantly reduced courier costs.

    ROI:Courier bill reduced by £25,000 annually. Estimated cost savings overall expected to be £120,000 annually for next 5 years.

  • Vodafone: Multimedia sales experience sharpens competitive edge.

    Product:Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology

    Benefit:They can offer the highest level of remote management including software problem diagnosis and repair.

    ROI:System availability has increased from 97% to 99.3% improving the customer experience.

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