Integral's Success Stories

Integral has a long history of success. We have helped many customers apply technology effectively. Listed below are some of the projectes we have worked on.

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Ameritech/SBC

One of the major Regional Bell Operating Companies, SBC/Ameritech selected Integral Corporation to develop its next-generation Customer Information Database (CiDat) for its Global Marketing division. In 2000, using Delphi 5.0 and SQL Server 7.0, Integral created initial working versions of the new system within three months, and won contracts to continue development of enhanced versions of the system. Integral created an Executive Information System (EIS) tailored to provide SBC Marketing with hard numbers and facts about their customers at a fraction of the cost that other providers such as Accenture (Andersen Consulting) were quoting. Executives in various SBC divisions have liked the new system so much that several other divisions are considering implementing the system as well.

Argonne National Labs (http://www.anl.gov/)

Argonne National Laboratory - performs research and development in the basic sciences, energy, and environemtal management. Integral Corporation designed a cluster of Linux servers for the Intensified, Pulsed Neutron Source division of Argonne National Laboratories. The cluster is primarily used for computationally intensive Monte Carlo simulations (what-if). Our initial three server Linux cluster replaced an older cluster of 34 systems! Additional servers have been added to the cluster, further boosting its computational power. Other Integral systems in use at Argonne include several servers used in Argonne's Network Information System (similar to Microsoft's NT Domains).

Christopher Burke Engineering

Christopher Burke Engineering is one of the best known water resource engineering firms in Illinois. In 1993, Integral designed and installed a 200+ node network over three floors for them. Today, we work in conjuction with Burke's network administrator on a variety of daily and long term networking and Internet issues. Integral provides Burke with T1 1.544 Mbps Internet access, and worked with Burke engineers to implement a Linux based mail server for hundreds of users and multiple operating companies within the Christopher Burke Group..

City of Naperville

Integral partnered with UPG Communications to provide a touch screen kiosk system to welcome visitors to Naperville's Municipal Center, allowing 24 hour access to information about the city, guiding maps to the various departments, and even a welcome video from the mayor.

 

Computer Redeployment Program - Naperville School Districts 203 and 204. 2009- Present

Every year, like many businesses, Naperville School Districts replace existing computers and technology and bring in new systems. Old systems were discarded or sold to recyclers. Integral was a founding member of the Computer Redeployment Program, which uses student volunteers to refurbish this amazing resource to give the computers back to kids in need. This program has given over 1800 computers back to students (770 in District 204), sales of extra computers has raised over $150,000 for the Napervile Education Foundation, and it has helped students develop invaluable team, business, and leadership skills, in addition to providing near-current technology to kids who didn't have a computer at home. Integral was a recipient of an award from the Illinois State Board of Education for this innovative program.

Integral Computer Redeployment Program provides over 500 laptops to kids in need.

August 2014: Integral led a project with Indian Prairie School District 204 and a team of 25 students volunteers to refurbish 561 laptop computers and give them back to school kids who don't have a computer. Computers were given to middle school and high school students who could not afford a computer at home.

 

DuPage County Department of Environmental Concerns

The DuPage County Department of Environmental Concerns is responsible for overseeing the various building projects throughout DuPage County. One of their primary concerns is the disposition of stormwater that is displaced by new building developments. A significant amount of permits and other paperwork is generated by the department. In 1995, Integral lead the changeover of EC from their old, slow Token Ring network to Fast Ethernet, and implemented new Compaq ProLiant file servers and Integral PC's, achieving major performance gains for EC's Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In 1999, Integral developed a custom software package written in Visual Basic and ImageBasic to create a document imaging system which automated a significant portion of EC's permitting process, allowing tracking of permits in progress as well as digitally recording images of paper documents - greatly reducing their paper bloat.

DuPage County Department of Transportation

Integral Corporation provides file servers, networking equipment, and consulting services for DOT's local area networks. We recently upgraded their servers to a dual processor 1 Ghz Pentium III Intel SC5000 system, which offers up to 10 hot swap hard drive bays and redundant power supplies, and integrated it into DOT's hybrid Fast Ethernet and TokenRing network.

Eskay Screw Corporation

Eskay Screw uses Integral's LanCare service for network support. We work in conjuction with Eskay's network administrator on a variety of daily and long term networking and Internet issues, and make regular, weekly visits to their site to support their computing environment.

Fermi National Accelerator Facility/Fermilab (http://www.fnal.gov)

Fermilab is a high-energy physics laboratory, home of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron. Scientists from across the U.S. and around the world use Fermilab's resources in experiments to explore the most fundamental particles and forces of nature. Integral designed Linux based high capacity network storage servers for Fermilab. Our first generation storage server features dual processor Pentium III's and 1.6 Terabytes (1600 Gigabytes) of hot swappable data storage using industry-standard off the shelf components.

Our storage servers are also used in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project that is creating a field guide to the universe as it creates a map of the hundreds of millions of galaxies that make up our cosmos. "Sloan produces 600 pictures through five different filters every hour.", "Hundreds of gigabytes of digital pictures are delivered weekly to Fermilab for compilation that, over the next three years, will deliver the most comprehensive map of the hundreds of millions of galaxies that make up what astronomer Carl Sagan called the "cosmos." Click here to see the March 11th Chicago Tribune story.

 

Fermilab also uses Integral's Linux workstations as High Performance PC's. The roles our systems serve are varied; several are used in the systems development arena; several are intricate front end nodes for cluster research; and the remainder are used for "number-crunching" or data analysis. As front ends to Fermilab's clusters, our systems are the initial entry point into the clusters that perform data analysis of sub particle collisions (several steps beyond initial collision and sub quark collisions). For systems development, Integral's systems are used for Kernel and device driver development specialized for the HPPC (High Performance PC) arena. Only used in scientific research. However, much of their development is released as open source back to the community in general.

All of Integral's Linux workstations are specification built. They meet a very specific set of criteria as to component quality and system performance. All of our workstations have consistently exceeded the specifications and in all but one case, out performed all other high-end workstation manufacturers.

Mortgage Bancorp Services (http://www.mortgagebancorp.com)

Mortgage Bancorp Services is a mortgage broker based in Palatine, Illinois. Integral Corporation designed their web site and local area network. MBS's web site is hosted in MBS's offices on Integral web servers. Their mortgage brokerage software runs on Integral's dual processor Pentium III Windows 2000 Servers using Terminal Services from thin client Capio computers.

North Coast Music Festival - 2011

Imagine creating a fully functional data network covering almost 13.4 acres, with temperatures reaching up to 100 degrees at some times, rain at others, over a 4 day festival, with tens of thousands of guests, and major sponsors like Group On looking on. This is a challenge that Integral took on with only one week to prepare in 2011. This festival is held annually in Union Park - with no power, no network wiring, just one day to setup, a major street separating one of the entertainment stages from the other 2 stages, and plans to offer live streaming video of the main stage over the internet. Taking power from generators powering the main stages, microwave Internet, we created a wired and wireless network that provided guest checkins, streamiing video, and network operations in some of the most extreme conditions.

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The Ad People

The Ad People are an advertising agency based in Skokie, Illinois, that specializes in car advertising and election campaigns. We developed a custom software package using Visual Basic 6.0 and Access 2000 that allows them to place ads with various media such as print, radio, tv, or billboard, to generate ad calendars for clients, to track costs associated with ads, to bill customers, and to integrate their media payables with their Solomon accounting system.

 

Wheaton Sanitary District

When it came time to replace it's 1960's era Sanitary Plant monitoring system, the Wheaton Sanitary District came to Integral to provide the technology. Using just one PC, Integral created a 6-display system to run the custom software that monitors every aspect of WSD's operations. We also installed five file servers to run their accounting, GIS, email, and other daily operations.