| Buy.com In just two weeks, two Buy.com developers using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework created a personalized shopping portal that provides customers with faster access to products of interest, account information, and order status. |
| Egg plc One of Europe’s leading online banking providers, Egg plc rebuilt its Egg Card Web site, replacing the existing Sun/UNIX site with an entirely new site built using Visual Studio .NET, the .NET Framework, and Content Management Server 2002. |
| Bear, Stearns, and Company With the Microsoft .NET Framework, Bear Stearns has exceeded its performance goals, increased developer productivity, and built a solution that adheres to Internet protocols and standards. |
| Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. The Nasdaq Stock Market Uses XBRL and XML Web Services to improve market efficiency through better information delivery. |
| Virgin.com Web site traffic for Virgin.com increases by almost 50 percent with Microsoft .NET. |
| Allstate Insurance Co. Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework, Allstate built a solution combining .NET technologies and J2EE to put Allstate Financial information at fingertips of its countrywide network of independent producers. |
| Fiserv CBS Worldwide CBS Worldwide recently migrated its XML-based Communicator, a common interface to integrate dissimilar financial service systems, to the Microsoft .NET Framework. |
| Merck & Co., Inc. Equipped with Visual Studio .NET, the Merck Clinical Research and Development Group produced a flexible architecture that allowed Merck to streamline its clinical trial system through automation. |
| 7-Eleven Built with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, the 7-Eleven Vendor Terminal System allows a quickstart-up time for new vendors, the ability to engage with much smaller vendors, faster development cycles, improved performance, and lower system operation cost. |
| CNET Channel Built using Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET, CNET Channel’s ChannelOnline solution can handle increasingly large volumes of data, while offering new features and fast response times. |
| InterKnowlogy, LLC By building the CommNet event management solution entirely on .NET Enterprise Servers and the .NET Framework, InterKnowlogy was able to create a comprehensive event management system in three months. |
| GlaxoSmithKline When pharmaceutical leader GlaxoSmithKline needed to create an easier to manage online pharmaceuticals product catalog and extend the contents to its United States Pharmaceuticals business-to-business trade customers, it turned to Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. |
| U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command The United States Air Force, Air Mobility Command partnered with Quilogy, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, to design and develop a Web-enabled government-to-employee application that replaced a labor-intensive, paper-driven process. |
| Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein To provide an easy way for its clients to securely access valuable data, DrKW developed its BrokerPulse application using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework, all in just three months. |
| Harris Interactive In creating a new online registration system with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, Harris Interactive has reported reduced development time, increased database searching speed, and the flexible business logic required to take best advantage of its huge databases. |
| National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute resigned its Cancer.gov site with Microsoft .NET. |
| Global Trade Technologies Global Trade Technologies built BizBonds.net, a subscription business-to-business e-commerce bond-trading Web site for retail broker and dealers, using .NET technology entirely. |
| Xerox Corporation Recently, Xerox revised and enhanced its printer management package, CentreWare Web, using the Microsoft .NET Framework. The developers reported huge productivity gains. |
| Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Using Visual Studio .NET and the Mobile Internet Toolkit, the Scandinavian IT Group and Scandinavian Mobility Group delivered a solution that enables all customers to check flight status and select customers to rebook a flight on the SAS Web site using popular mobile phones and devices. |
| Carnival Cruise Lines When Carnival Cruise Lines needed quick turnaround on creating a Web-based application for processing customer information requests about the company’s ships and cruises, it turned to Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows. |
| Bina Nusantara University With Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, Indonesia’s Universitas Bina Nusantara has developed and deployed the first Internet-based education center and has demonstrated an ability to quickly and cost-effectively develop the applications that maximize productivity for students, teachers, and administrators. |
| L’Oréal Using Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework, L’Oréal was able to realize a single Web-based platform that can be leveraged across the company's diverse set of brands, geographies, and business needs. |
| Eclipsys Corp. Harvey Wilson, Chairman and CEO of Eclipsys Corporation, has a goalto make SunriseXA the "Microsoft Office of Healthcare." To meet that goal, Sam Robinson, CTO of Eclipsys Corporation, chose to build the SunriseXA architecture on Microsoft .NET. |
| Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein To give its workers access to the most up-to-date pricing information, generated through complex mathematical models, Deutsche Bank's Global Equity Derivatives unit gave its worldwide developers access to XML Web services with the Microsoft .NET Framework, and a set of Microsoft ASP.NET custom controls created using Visual Studio .NET. |
| EdgeRender For EdgeRender, ASP.NET helps trim development time by 25 percent. |
| Corillian Corp. On making the decision to pursue a strategy based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Corillian Chief Technology Officer, Chris Brooks says, "We've proven that with a fairly small team, and in a short timeframe, we can get the highest quality product to market and maintain real control of our intellectual property." |
| Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast hit a home run using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to support their Major League Baseball game MLB Showdown. |