Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced today that Flemming Dental GmbH, one of the world`s largest suppliers of dental fixtures, has selected CA`s acclaimed Unicenter eBusiness management solutions - including Unicenter Management for SAP R/3 and Unicenter Database Management for Distributed RDBMS - to improve its ability to manage an increasingly complex and rapidly growing IT infrastructure.
Flemming Dental GmbH is one of the world`s largest dental laboratory group with 2,500 employees in 83 German and European branches and revenue of 115 million euro in 2001. By using Unicenter to automate management tasks and monitor its enterprise resources from a central console, Flemming Dental has been able to boost the performance and availability of mission-critical systems while maintaining existing IT staffing levels.
With a complete set of powerful monitoring and scheduling capabilities, Unicenter Management for SAP R/3 empowers Flemming Dental`s IT administrators to quickly assess the health of its application environment in order to prevent disruptions before they affect critical business processes.
Flemming Dental is also utilizing CA`s integrated Unicenter Database Management solutions to enhance database performance, simplify administration, and control backup and recovery processes. As a result, the company has been able to reduce its cost of technology ownership, maximize returns on its IT investments and ensure business continuity.
"The scalable, integrated functionality of Unicenter has given our relatively small IT group the ability to proactively address system issues before they affect our customers," said Axel Ring, IT Business Administration Manager at Flemming Dental.
By deploying CA`s Unicenter Network and Systems Management solutions, Flemming Dental can effortlessly monitor and troubleshoot its entire heterogeneous, expanding network infrastructure. The company is also using Unicenter Software Delivery and Unicenter Asset Management to maintain the consistent configuration of its desktop PCs and servers, thereby ensuring optimal performance and rapid problem resolution.
"Thanks to Unicenter, we no longer have to worry about human resource constraints adversely impacting our ability to achieve our business growth goals," said Jean Kobben, IT Technical Director at Flemming Dental.
SMP, a Hamburg-based CA partner, supported Flemming Dental`s deployment of Unicenter.
"For today`s IT-dependent businesses to succeed, they must be able to grow their technology environments without having to grow their management teams proportionally," said Peter Rasp, Country Manager of CA Germany. "As Flemming Dental has discovered CA Unicenter eBusiness management solutions uniquely fulfill this strategic business growth requirement."
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Hamburg-based Flemming Dental GmbH manufactures dentures. With a 2,500-strong workforce, 83 German and European branches and sales of 115 million euros in 2001, the company ranks as one of the world`s largest dental laboratory group. Founded in 1996, Flemming Dental GmbH is comprised of a number of smaller businesses and groups under a holding company. Subsidiary Dentacom, for example, is in the process of developing a software solution for dentists. The key function, however, remains the manufacturing of top-quality dentures.
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Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness. CA`s world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure management, eTrust for security management, BrightStor for storage management, CleverPath for portal and business intelligence, AllFusion for application life cycle management, Advantage for data management and application development, and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology. Founded in 1976, CA serves organizations in more than 100 countries, including 99 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit http://ca.com.
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