FXOnline Japan has migrated all of their infrastructure to a Virtual Environment to establish a highly stable and available Foreign Exchange Trading System. This new system, which also includes a Disaster Recovery (DR) site to avoid trading downtime caused by disasters, has high availability and flexibility through VMware Infrastructure 3 and has become the IT foundation for FXOnline - allowing the firm to recover quickly from disasters and to quickly introduce new products to help expand its business.

NikkoCiti is a wholesale investment bank established as a joint venture between Nikko Cordial Corporation, with 110 branches throughout Japan, and Citigroup, Inc., with a network spanning more than 100 countries.

UNION BANCAIRE PRIVEE, (UBP) headquartered in Geneva, is one of the major Swiss asset management banks for both private and institutional clients, and a world leader in alternative investment. Strengthened by selective acquisitions and constant, robust growth, the Bank has established an international presence through a network of subsidiaries, branches, and representative offices in over 20 global locations. UBP Japan Securities is the Tokyo arm of the firm having operated in Japan for many years.

Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) depends on production line applications to manage car manufacturing. Legacy DOS-based production line software performs real-time mission critical functions such as conveyor control, RFID scanning and bar-code reading. Production line systems are integrated with production management servers and control rooms via proprietary binary messaging protocols that are poorly supported.

Faurecia China required integration of production management software with assembly-line equipment - torque sensors used to ensure correct bolt tightening. Each sensor is a complex electronic tool that communicates tightening results via TCP/IP utilizing a proprietary protocol. The integration requirement became clear very late in the overall project.

Shanghai General Motors (SGM) is 50-50 joint venture between General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), China's largest passenger car manufacturer. SGM's 24,000-square-meter plant is powered by world-class facilities and leading-edge technology. at the time of the project SGM ranked among China's top-three passenger car manufacturers, with a 10% market share.