Costco currently operates 554 warehouses,
including 407 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 76 in Canada, 21 in
the United Kingdom, six in Korea, five in Taiwan, eight in Japan and 31
in Mexico. The Company also operates Costco Online, an electronic
commerce web site, at www.costco.com and at www.costco.ca in Canada.
Data Management / Business Intelligence
CommerceHub, i2 Supply Chain Management, IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence, IBM Rational Method Composer, IBM Tivoli Directory Server,
Informatica, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Oracle,
Oracle Database (RDBMS), Oracle Hyperion, SAP BusinessObjects
Development / Programming Tools
Apache, Cisco IOS NetFLow, Digby Retail Mobile Commerce, IBM
Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational Software
Modeler, IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP), IBM Tivoli, IBM Tivoli
Monitoring, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Message
Broker, IBM WebSphere MQ, InstallShield, Microsoft .NET Framework,
Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Commerce Server, Microsoft Visual Basic
(VB), Microsoft Visual C#, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Sybase T-SQL,
Tripwire
Enterprise Applications
Bazaarvoice, eGain, FreightMatrix, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Lotus
Notes, IBM Rational RequisitePro, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle
Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle WebCenter, SAP, SAP
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP/Formerly MySAP), SAP ERP Central
Component (ECC)
Hardware/OS/Systems Environment
Ateb IVR (Interactive Voice Response), Avaya Network Hardware, HP
OpenView, HP Proliant Servers, IBM AIX, IBM iSeries (includes IBM
AS/400), Juniper ScreenOS, Linux, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft
Exchange Server, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
(SCVMM), Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Windows Servers,
Nortel Option Switches, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle
Solaris (Formerly Sun Solaris), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SCO
OpenServer, UNIX, Wintel Servers
95% of Costco's data center computers run on versions of the Microsoft Windows OS.
Networking
Blue Coat WAN Optimization, Cisco CallManager, Cisco Routers and Switches, HP 3Com Routers & Switches
Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel
BlackLine Systems Software, EnFlex eWebConnect, IBM Coremetrics, Paxonix, PharmASSIST Symphony
PhotoChannel Network online photo services
The company uses US Technology Resources of Aliso Viejo California for IT Outsourcing
Case Study: Costco Wholesale / Microsoft
Data Storage
CommVault
Databases
IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL
Security
Core Security Technologies, McAfee, Microsoft Identity Integration Server, Symantec Veritas Backup Exec, WhatCounts Broadcaster
Telecommunications
Cisco IP Telephony (VoIP), Cisco IVR, Cisco Telephony Hardware,
Cisco Unity System, Genesys, Nortel Business Communications Manager
(BCM), Nortel Telephony Hardware, Siemens HiPath Xpressions
Virtualization
Citrix XenApp (formerly MetaFrame and Presentation Server), Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, VMware ESX Server
