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Extranet Web Portal Streamlines Communications Between Aviva and TCS

Aviva, a global insurance group, sent some of its information technology needs offshore to Tata Consultancy Services' TCS Offshore Development Center in Bangalore, India. To manage this relationship, TCS showcased a relationship portal, called PARIMAS or Partner Interaction Management System, with the objective of creating an in-house knowledge management system....

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Knowledge, Aviva Plc., Extranet, Microsoft Corp., Extranet Web Portal, PARIMAS, Portals, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Web Technology, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Case studies 2006-01-24

3Com Case Study: Aviva Life Insurance Company (USA)

A subsidiary of Aviva plc, one of the 10 largest insurance groups in the world, Aviva Life Insurance has grown quickly to become a leader in the annuity and life insurance industry. By 2002, however, the insurer's growth had overtaxed the capabilities of the Avaya PBX systems it inherited in...

Tags: Aviva Plc., 3Com Corp., Life Insurance, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

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Aviva Protects Critical CRM, Oracle, and SQL Server Data With Network Appliance Solution

Aviva Life Insurance Company is one of India's leading private life insurance companies. The problem was underutilization of storage resources, which, in turn, made these servers inefficient and difficult to manage. Aviva first consolidated storage on central-site DAS servers to a single NetApp storage system. NetApp storage supports a Windows...

Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Aviva Plc., Server, NetApp, CRM, Storage, Hardware

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Pitney Bowes Case Study: Aviva Canada Inc.

Aviva Canada Inc. is one of the leading property and causality insurance groups in Canada, with annual written premiums of close to $3 billion. To manage the extensive volume of mail and shipments, Aviva Canada was using several different and independent shipping systems, each linked to a different carrier with...

Tags: Pitney Bowes Inc., Aviva Plc., Aviva Canada Inc., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

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Insurance Giant Aviva Sees Business Travel Cost Reductions, Paralleled With Increased Productivity, Thanks to the Global Roll Out of WebEx

Aviva is the world's sixth largest insurance group and the leading provider of life and pensions products in the UK. The company needed to ensure that the business units were trained up on how to use the product and they needed to make sure there was adequate support in place...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Cost Reduction, Aviva Plc., Insurance, Web Conferencing, Internet

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Aviva Life Insurance Company Selects HEAT and Creates Customized Reports With KPIs to Measure Performance of the Delivery of Operational IT Services

Aviva Life Insurance Company Aviva is the U.S. subsidiary of Aviva plc, the world's oldest continuously operating insurance group and a leader in the arena of global financial services. As a growing business, Aviva required a trouble ticket system which would allow them to log, track and respond to technical...

Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Aviva Plc., Life Insurance, KPI, Aviva Life Insurance Company, Insurance, Financial Planning, ITIL, It Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management

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Aviva Life Insurance Relies on the NetApp Unified Storage Approach

Aviva Life Insurance Company India Pvt. Ltd., one of India's leading private life insurance companies, serves customers from 106 offices across the country. The company wanted to consolidate MS SQL applications to improve operational efficiency and ensure scalability for rapid growth. The company also wanted to improve storage utilization and...

Tags: Aviva Plc., Life Insurance, NetApp, Aviva Life Insurance, Insurance, Storage, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Hardware, Finance

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Additional Resources

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

U90 Ladder (exe)

U90 Ladder is the software tool used to create applications for the M90 PLC. After you plan the control task, use U90 Ladder to write, debug, and download the PLC control and HMI applications into the M90. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Application, Unitronics, U90 Ladder, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-30

HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks

What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using the bank's legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It's even more interesting to measure the average...

Tags: Bank, Vulnerability, XSS, Flaw, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-29

VisiLogic (exe)

VisiLogic is the software tool you use to create control projects for Vision controllers. After you plan the control task, use VisiLogic to write, debug, and download the PLC control and HMI applications into the controller. The PLC application is your control, or automation application. You write the PLC application...

Tags: Application, Controller, Unitronics, VisiLogic, PLC Application

Software downloads 2008-06-20

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destructionSCADA vulnerabilityAs an Engineer who has spent the past 20 years working on SCADA systems for water and wastewater plants, I have some comments on this article. And yes we are a user of CitectSCADA First, where I work, we NEVER connect our...

Tags: Enterprise software, NETWORKING, hacking, terrorism, SCADA, network

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed

Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lostStuff and nonsense>From day one, the purpose of Philly’s network is to increase digital inclusion and economic development. The measure of their success should be how lives and businesses are being helped in disadvantaged communities.The city to stick to...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless Philly, wireless, EarthLink Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Open source tries again with health care

Open source tries again with health careMisys StrategyDana -- Be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater with throw-away comments like open source became a tactic; not a strategy...confirmed when Misys later did a deal to buy half of Allscripts...Because of the potential disruptive nature of open...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, open source, health care, Misys

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Keells Super Uses Motorola for Real-Time Inventory of Goods

Keells Super is one of the largest super market chains in Sri Lanka. It is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC, a Sri Lankan blue chip conglomerate. In a single Keells Super store, there are between 12,000 - 15,000 individual items for sale. The IT team wanted to improve...

Tags: Mobile, Stock, Motorola Inc., Keells Super, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2008-04-09

Endeavors Technologies Application Jukebox: An interesting spin on application virtualization

Endeavors Technologies just launched its Application Jukebox, an application virtualization and delivery product. It appears to me that this product takes the concepts of application encapsulation and application streaming to a new level. Here's how Endeavors describes their technology Endeavors Technologies, the...

Tags: Application, Jukebox, Application Virtualization, Application Jukebox, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Misys-Allscripts deal is all about SaaS

Misys-Allscripts deal is all about SaaSMisys SaaSDana -- First, the components that have been open sourced by Misys, also known as the Braid Project on Sourceforge, are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license not the EPL. Second, although Misys offers a hosted EMR product called MyWay (2007 CCHIT Certified) which...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), OPEN SOURCE, Misys, Misys SaaS, CCHIT-certified EMR, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Fastest-growing UK sites in January 2008

Property December 2007 January 2008 Growth, % Total Internet 32,981 33,254 1% First Choice Holidays PLC 1,612 3,874 140% Arcandor AG 1,877 4,396 134% TUI Group 2,065 4,577 122% British Airways 1,963 3,564 82% Moneysupermarket.com...

Tags: Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-01

Mobile ad market

Wall Street Journal collected various predictions on mobile ad market. Revenue from advertising on mobile devices approached $1 bln in 2007, according to Gartner. Group M, an advertising forecaster owned by WPP, estimates that $479 bln will be spent on advertising world-wide in 2008. By 2011, Informa Group PLC in...

Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, AM

Blog posts 2008-02-19