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The FX Marketplace: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges

The foreign exchange marketplace is in a state of flux. The rules of the game are being re-written by the advent of new players and different ways of transacting FX thanks to technology advances. What are the trends in the FX marketplace and what opportunities and challenges do they present...

Tags: Asset Class, Foreign-exchange, Marketplace, Infosys Technologies Ltd., FX, Foreign-exchange Marketplace, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Asset Management, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2009-01-19

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How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Blue Microphones Snowball

Getting a great recording into your computer requires a great microphone. Unfortunately, the amount of effort it takes to adapt a professional microphone for use with your computer can be a daunting task, often involving outboard sound cards, bulky pro-audio cables, and cumbersome microphone mounts. To bridge the gap between...

Tags: microphone, Snowball

Product reviews 2009-08-31

Should you benefit from ACN’s bloodletting?

If you like great talent, you should….. Accenture has cut loose many senior executives recently and will pare some more given last Thursday’s announcement. I know some of these folks. Specific vertical segments have been pared down to reflect new market realities. These include: automotive...

Tags: Consultant, Benefit, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Career, Sales, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Albert Gonzalez was hacking in high school...where were the safety nets?

I agree.....Most of our schools are not equipt for the new age of computers and programming. Most of our schools but not all are still stuck in the liberal arts mode of teaching and not letting students focus on their strengths. Its all about well rounded B-S. ...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, hacking, Albert Gonzalez

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

2010 Mazda Mazda3 s Grand Touring 5-Door

Photo gallery:2010 Mazda Mazda3 s GTAt first glance, the 2010 Mazda Mazda3 s Grand Touring appears to be merely a face-lifted version of the first-generation model. The proportions and measurements are about the same. The previous generation Mazda3 received much praise from the automotive press, so we naturally expected the...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Mazda Mazda3, Mazda Motor Corp., automatic transmission

Product reviews 2009-06-18

Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac

I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddance�...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Yamaha Pocketrak CX

There are times in your life when a basic voice recorder just won't cut it. For example, let's say you want to capture a professional recording of your kid's piano recital, or a live concert, or an important academic lecture--you'll need a portable recorder that's discreet, but also packs some...

Tags: recorder, Pocketrak CX, Pocketrak, microphone, Yamaha Corp.

Product reviews 2009-03-26

Is having SOA and Master Data Management at the same time a form of overkill?

Is having SOA and Master Data Management at the same time a form of overkill?MDM BPM SOA OMGIn part this is dependent on the nature of the soa effort. SOA is an architectural world view that can be easily applied to MDM.Whether you are dealing with variants of interfaces, schemas,...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, master data management

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Upgrading older systems

Upgrading older systemseBay "support"At FORD, we had many legacy machines in differing states of "decay". One was a NVH (Noice/Vehicle Harmonics) platform - which consisted of a specialty input card (ISA bus?) that connected hundreds of different sensors on a vehicle to check noise levels. A new card was pretty...

Tags: T5440, P550, Sun Microsystems Inc., P690, older system, Upgrading, Ford Motor Co., eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman

Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in GoldmanPat Leach wrote this story in 2006In "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?" (p. 55) by Patrick Leach, the Goldman approach to risk was highlighted as a best practice. To be fair, Pat couldn't have written this exact story in 06, but...

Tags: Asset management, GoldMan, Calculating Risk, gold, marin

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

Really, you're going to buy it for me?

While my oldest son wasn't a fan of the netbook form factor, my 15-year old has been using it all week to write final papers, put together a presentation, and take notes for his finals. He, like me, has small hands and is far more inclined to work sitting...

Tags: Netbook, Computer, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Productivity, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-14

The Satyam saga worsens â€" terribly so

The Enron of India (Probably!) The news today re: Satyam is really bad. It makes the events of last month pale in comparison. To begin, you should read Satyam Chairman Raju’s letter of resignation where he accounts for the accounting sleight of hand he says that...

Tags: Satyam, Andersen, Asset Management, Balance Sheets, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Oracle, the Innovation Company: Core Innovation, Fusion Applications' Debut, and Why It’s All Up to AIA

If I had to distill a vast and complex product strategy into a single, admittedly simplistic description, Oracle of late would have been known as a company that innovates through acquisition: This has been largely true since Oracle’s acquisition binge started five years ago. And until now innovation through acquisition...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, E-Business Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence App, Application Integration, Leadership, It Services, Strategy, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Sophisticated Customer Relationship Collaboration with MindTouch & SnapLogic

In another sign of the continuing maturity of Enterprise 2.0 technologies, open source social enterprise collaboration vendor MindTouch and open source data integration framework company SnapLogic announce a new partnership today. SnapLogic have a terrific reputation in the open source data integration world, linking (with 'pipelines') ...

Tags: CRM System, Customer Intelligence, Open Source, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Software As A Service (SaaS), Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Cellular Abroad National Geographic phone (Motorola V180)

A cell phone can be a great asset when traveling abroad. You can make travel arrangements, check in with local friends or fellow travelers, and you can keep in touch with family back home. And as more U.S. residents continue to pack their phones for international trips, they face a...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, National Geographic, Motorola Inc., phone, Cellular Abroad

Product reviews 2008-09-05

Deploying and Managing Thin Clients

This white paper has reviewed some of the considerations for a large-scale thin client deployment program and discussed how to design and manage a thin client computing infrastructure with Wyse Device Manager, WDM. This has shown that while thin client management may appear straightforward at the outset, a sophisticated management...

Tags: Thin Client, WDM, Wyse Technology Inc., WDM 4.7, Thin Clients, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-01

Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos

There are dozens of flavors of clever applications aimed at the office productivity market, often spawned as a result of the Web 2.0 explosion. Where the Web 2.0 application market is driven by eyeballs and their resulting advertising monetization, the enterprise 2.0...

Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, Etelos, Developer Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-08-14

ITIL® Service Capability: Release, Control, and Validation

View Available Dates and LocationsThis course will immerse you in the practical aspects of the ITIL v3 Service Lifecycle and processes associated with the Release, Control, and Validation of services and service delivery. The main focus of this course is on the operational-level process activities and supporting...

Tags: Control, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

Training 2008-08-01

ITIL® Service Lifecycle: Service Transition

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the overall concepts, processes, policies, and methods associated with the Service Transition phase of the Service Lifecycle. You'll focus on Service Transition purpose, principles, processes, activities, functions, technology, and implementation considerations. Using an engaging...

Tags: ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

Training 2008-08-01