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Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a highly diversified and dynamic Fortune 500 manufacturer with over 852 businesses in more than 60 countries, needed to quickly deploy a unified applications delivery framework for its financials and SOX compliance systems. ITW, who acquires 30-50 new companies annually, needed to do this without disrupting the business networks and security systems of the subsidiaries, and without the expense of a large IT staff. By using Corente's Virtual Services Exchange, ITW maintained its existing business processes and rolled out its global financial applications in less than four months, without re-engineering its network and with no additional staff. Corente's VSE enables ITW to maintain central control and regulatory compliance for applications globally, across federated business units, supply chain partners and industry exchanges, while improving security, services levels and reliability, and realizing a 30% total cost of ownership reduction.

Marco Polo Networks, a leading provider of trading services to emerging markets, needed to securely and reliably deliver high performance trading services to brokers and exchanges in more than 40 countries. Emerging markets represent the fastest growing market for global securities trading, but lack the sophisticated communications and security services of the more developed markets, including the end to end delivery of trading services. Corente's VSE provided the necessary applications delivery, security, visibility and monitoring that Marco required, resulting in Marco being able to cover 90% of the Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Index (MSCI) countries with their service.

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts required a solution that could easily integrate with its business processes and also meet stringent requirements for security, monitoring and managing of the quality of the reservations systems experience at each franchised property. The diverse geography and ownership of the properties required a solution that could work with any mix of network providers and access technologies, as well as support remote installation and central management. They chose Corente because only Corente's Virtual Services Exchange bridged the many geographic, technological and business boundaries of their company. Corente enables Four Seasons to provide elite status for their IBM Lotus Domino-based reservation system & deliver a variety of critical corporate applications over the public Internet.

Barnes Aerospace, producers and overhaulers of machine and fabricated components and assemblies for aircraft engine and airframe builders, needed big-company IT infrastructure at a small-company price. They needed a solution to tie together their sales force, engineering teams and customers worldwide, with speed, reliability, and no downtime. Barnes selected IBM and Corente to supply secure application delivery with automated operational support (all at a low total cost of ownership), allowing deployment of distributed applications and business capabilities on a platform that is secure, scalable, reliable and highly available. Corente gives the aerospace company a comprehensive, turnkey solution that has all the features, functions and operational support it needs.

The Reilly Mortgage Group, a privately held company that provides acquisition, refinancing, and new construction loans for multi-family dwellings across the country, required an on-demand solution to increase the uptime of its financial services network, to gain better visibility into network performance and security for its applications, and to reduce the operational burden on the company's IT team. Reilly selected IBM and Corente to provide an outsourced secure IP network that it can quickly adapt to new application needs as its business grows. Now Reilly has a highly secure and reliable application delivery infrastructure that not only boots up by itself, but monitors and updates itself as well.

The Clearing Corporation (CCorp), a leading independent clearinghouse for futures markets, needed a streamlined and efficient process for deploying its Global Clearing Link service to new customers in the United States and Europe. CCorp selected Corente and Digital Family to create an on-demand application infrastructure to deliver this service. The Clearing Corporation can now connect its customers to its Global Clearing Link service over the public Internet securely, rapidly, and cost effectively, while maintaining the high performance and high availability required for critical financial clearing house transactions.