Customer Success Stories

LGA Telecom Pte Ltd is a Singapore-based one-stop Internet Communications Service Provider that has experienced tremendous growth in its customer base since the start of its operations in 1995. The 38-person company provides services to corporations and business users, ranging from SMEs to MNCs in the areas of unified communications, mobility solutions, and network security and IT solutions.

Traditionally, low economies of scale have limited small and medium enterprises to PC-based systems. As such, they do not enjoy the benefits that multinational companies typically derive from Sun Microsystems’ platforms and solutions. However, in today’s technological climate and with Sun’s strategic partnership with solution providers servicing the SME market, all that is set to change. Chee Fatt Co. Pte Ltd is one SME that is already reaping the benefits.

SISTIC has been providing innovative ticketing services since December 1991 and is now the largest ticketing services management company in Singapore. It sells tickets for about 90% of arts, entertainment, and sporting events in Singapore through a ticket distribution network that extends beyond the island state to countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. SISTIC offers its proprietary Web-based ticketing solution, STiX, to ticketing companies, event promoters, and venues in the Asia Pacific region under a licensing arrangement.

NTUC FairPrice is the leading supermarket retailer in Singapore, with more than 220 stores island-wide. Founded in 1973 to lower the cost of living for Singapore households, today it has more than 6,000 employees who serve more than a million customers each day. In the financial year ending March 31, 2007, it posted sales of approximately US$1.05 billion.

KMITL deployed a Web-based e-learning infrastructure based on Sun Fire servers to handle the heavy demands of its new E-University system, including the Web Server, Mail Server, and E-Learning Server, all of which has to cater to the demands of approximately 25,000 students, staff and personnel.

Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) is the basis for a complete rearchitecting of the petroleum company's infrastructure. Java CAPS will allow GECS to retain their investment in existing software applications by creating composite applications and unifying the customer experience.

Gunadarma University has replaced 100 desktop PCs with Sun Ray Clients and also installed a Sun Fire V240 server to create a centralized computer lab that is multi-purpose yet at reduced maintenance and ownership costs.

Mansion.com replaced its x86 blade servers running Windows and Linux with a standard Sun technology platform based on Solaris 10 and Sun Fire servers. With the high-availability, robustness and predictive self-healing features of Solaris 10, the company is assured of the continuous uptime needed to support a round-the-clock online gaming business never stops.

Sun Servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System and Java Enterprise System was deployed to quickly and effectively manage patient visits and financial transactions centrally through an integrated Hospital Information System (iHIS) for Jurong Medical Centre

Sabah Electricity Sendirian Berhad migrated its SAP application and system to Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire V240 servers running the Solaris 10 OS, and increased its storage expansion capability for its Oracle 9i database system and Veritas backup software with a Sun StorageTek 3510 storage area network (SAN).

UniSIM deployed a Web-based e-learning infrastructure based on Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek storage technology to run the Blackboard Academic Suite. With almost everything online, learning becomes more flexible and interactive as students can now submit their assignments online, chat with their tutors and peers, download course materials online and even watch lectures online.

Singapore Airlines is deploying StarOffice 8 for access by passengers on the airline’s 19 new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. StarOffice in Singapore Airlines’ KrisWorld offers a hassle-free work environment. Passengers simply load their data on a thumb drive and work from their seat without a laptop.

UnionBank migrated from an IBM mainframe to a Sun open systems platform to power its Finacle core banking solution, speeding service deployment and lowering total cost of ownership.