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Time to put banking executives on trial?

Time to put banking executives on trial?Agreed plus ...... all regulators and watchdog organisations who have allowed yet another financial crisis to sweep over us, without the slightest hint that something was going wrong.Further compensation boards should be put in place so that individuals and companies can claim damages from...

Tags: banking executive, banking, bank

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Managing 21st Century Business and Technology Innovation: Reduce Operational Risk, Enable Compliance, Protect Privacy With IBM System z

Banking executives are faced with a growing set of risk management and compliance challenges. This paper explores these challenges and highlights how IBM and, more specifically, System z, improves the alignment of IT and the business, increases business resilience, and enhances security and privacy capabilities to mitigate operational risk, while...

Tags: Innovation, Compliance, Privacy, IBM Corp., Banking Executive, Banking, Financial Services

White papers 2008-03-01

Additional Resources

SoftwareAG: 'We're not up for sale'

SoftwareAG acquiring IDS Scheer: deal details All cash offer €477 million (net of IDS Scheer cash is €387 million) Debt to be repaid in 2-3 years Contracted shares today 48% Tender process for remainder expected to start August and close...

Tags: IDS Scheer, SAP AG, SoftwareAG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearings

Genachowski sails through FCC confirmation hearingsFree Speach = Republican Dominance???You say that removing the imposition of ideological quotas repealing the Fairness Doctrine was, "a key foundation of the Republican dominance over the past 25 years." So free speech is what caused the supposed Republican dominance???? If you believe...

Tags: Federal government, Insurance, DTV Transition, Genachowski, confirmation hearing, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

The Bad HR software demo

Am I too sensitive? The other day I took a demo from an HR vendor â€" and â€" one aspect of that demo really bothered me. When we got to this point in the demo where a user could craft the requirements for a new hire, I...

Tags: Software, School, Firm, Software Executive, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-01

A shrinking Satyam

The stakes are growing as uncertainty continues Satyam is another services firm with some retention issues: employees and clients. Let’s start with the client erosion issue first. Satyam apparently had around $2 billion/year in revenues. Of course, that number may change due to the...

Tags: Economic Times, Satyam, Financial Planning, Insurance, Operational Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-22

In a time of cutbacks, Planview unveils a whopper of a new release

[caption id="attachment_343" align="alignnone" width="330" caption="Enterprise 10 screen shots"][/caption]Planview’s Mega Announcement: Enterprise 10 Checking the news these days is often depressing with the words ‘cutbacks’ and ‘recession’ being in most headlines. What we hear too little of are words like ‘expansion’, ‘bigger’, ‘more’, etc. Planview...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, R&D, PlanView, PPM, StageGate Integration, Planview Enterprise 10, Research & Development, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Sirius could file bankruptcy as early as Tuesday

Financially strapped Sirius XM Radio could file for bankruptcy as early as Tuesday if it cannot successfully negotiate with the holders of its debt, reports the AP. The satellite radio company said Friday that it has exchanged more than $172 million of debt maturing in December for...

Tags: XM Satellite Radio Inc., Satellite, Sirius, Common Stock, Bankruptcy, Liberty Media Corp., Company, Satellite Radio, Litigation, Network Technology, Personal Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-13

Microsoft

MicrosoftNo man can serve two masters......is the way Jesus put it 2000 years ago. The problem MS has faced since 1981 and has never really come to grips with, is which set of customers are to get top priority?. The conflict between MS, the OS developer, and MS,...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Report Sharp-Shooter Is One of the Main Tools in AppsPlus Arsenal

Applications Plus has been serving Northwest as well as worldwide businesses with quality database solutions for over 12 years. Their clients include Microsoft, West One Bank, and NOAA, as well as industries ranging from insurance, banking, medical analysis, to executive search and software development. Two of the main applications that...

Tags: Tool, Perpetuum Software, Software Development, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Strategy, Databases, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-01-01

Workday - Where HR and Finance Do More than Interface

Workday update Workday hosted a conference call for the Enterprise Irregulars bloggers recently. The firm was announcing a number of functional enhancements to their integrated Finance and HR product line. What did we learn? The company now has...

Tags: Human Resources, Workday, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-16

This is a Corker: Detroit's Shrinking Three may get help from feds

A junior Republican senator has crafted a plan that has a business-ignorant, vacation-thirsty Congress looking for a fast vote and a plane home. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn) has a direct three-prong plan: cut union wages to match those at foreign-owned, non-union plants in the US, reduce the value of...

Tags: Payment, U.S. Congress, Duck, House, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Finance, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-11

SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .

I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...

Tags: Bangladesh, Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Leadership, Management, Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Silicon Valley, Strategy, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?

My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...

Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Infosys: Moving up the consulting food chain

An Infosys executive reiterated that the offshore outsourcing business is holding up amid an economic slowdown and outlined plans to continue to move up the technology food chain to offer consulting services. Speaking at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York, Ashok Vemuri, head of banking and...

Tags: Food, Consulting, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Axon Group, Game Plan, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

The empty debate over open source security

Guest editorial by Roger Thornton Last week, Fortify published a study on adoption of security best-practices within the Open Source community. Given mounting risk posed by extensive use of Open Source technologies within business and government IT, we were gratified to see the passionate discussions that followed....

Tags: Software, Open Source, Security Assurance, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer records

Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer recordsData lost AGAIN.............What has me curious is whether or not the information ON the tapes is encrypted, whether it be residing in database files, flat files or whatever? This "data at rest" all should be stored in encrypted formats.........http://whistlersear.wordpress.comLost? Yeah right!Its always...

Tags: Financial services, NetBackup, Bank of NY, bank

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Pumping up the comp sci pipeline

I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Stephenson on Wednesday. Ms. Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer Science Teachers Association CSTA. Along with Google and a grant from the National Science Foundation, the CSTA is coordinating an ambitious two-day conference to...

Tags: Computer Science, Computer, CS, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Siemens' Dillione is HIMSS' smartest executive

It's hard to avoid stupidity in technology, especially medical technology, where niches are established and profits have been growing for years. Janet Dillione, CEO for health solutions at Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Penn., offered HIMSS a vision of interoperability, open standards, and SOA today so far from...

Tags: Siemens AG, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-26