Customers

The GigaSpaces-based Order Management System (OMS) at Virgin Mobile proved itself under fire in November 2006 when some key back office systems were unavailable for a time. While the OMS continued running, many orders were stalled in the state of being ready for processing by the back-office systems. When it was restarted, every pending order was processed.

In 2006, following a people's choice selection process that tabulated more than 350,000 votes in 20 consumer categories, Virgin Mobile's Web site powered by GigaSpaces was named "Best Website of the Year" in the telco category.

Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband.

Nortel chose GigaSpaces to manage transactional, concurrent access to contacts in its market-leading Contact Center application, which must support multimedia calls (Email, Chat, SMS, Voice, etc) and extremely fast response times to a growing number of users and customers.

The GigaSpaces middleware platform enables high-performance sharing and exchange of information between the services, high-performance state messaging, and transparent scalability. Since deploying GigaSpaces, application performance has improved 7x-now supporting 7million operations per hour (compared to 1 million previously)-and is on target for 10 million operations per hour by the end of 2007.

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. With more than 110,000 employees ABB is close to customers in around 100 countries.

With ABB's technology leadership, global presence, application knowledge and local expertise, they offer products, systems, solutions and services that allow their customers to improve their operations - whether they need to increase the reliability of a power grid or raise productivity in a factory.

Société Générale is one of the main European financial services companies with activities across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. The three main divisions are Retail Banking & Specialized Financial Services, Corporate and Investment Banking and Global Investment Management & Services. Société Générale Group has nearly 135,000 employees and a group presence in 82 countries.

British American Tobacco is the world's second largest quoted tobacco group. With more than 300 brands in the portfolio, BAT makes the cigarette chosen by one in seven of the world's one billion adult smokers. BAT has leadership in more than 50 of the 180 markets where it does business. The Group has 81 cigarette factories in 64 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (NYSE: CME) is an American financial exchange based in Chicago, which trades several types of financial instruments: interest rates, equities, currencies, and commodities via a trading system called an open outcry, which is linked to the CME® Globex® electronic trading platform, allowing market participants to buy and sell from anywhere. In July 2007, CME merged with the Chicago Board of Trade to become CME Group Inc., which provides the widest range of benchmark futures and options products available on any exchange, covering all major asset classes.

Since taking over Eurohypo, Europe's largest institution specializing in financing real-estate and public-sector projects, Commerzbank has been Germany's second-largest bank and one of the leading banks in Europe. Its consolidated balance-sheet total stands at 608bn euros. Roughly 36,000 employees, 8,725 of them active outside Germany, look after more than 8 million customers worldwide.

Commerzbank sees itself as an efficient provider of financial services for private and business customers as well as for small to medium-sized companies (Mittelstand), but it also serves numerous major corporates and multinationals.

Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, and operates in a network of offices around the world.