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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

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Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....

"Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase.  That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...

Tags: Facebook, Fan, Coca-Cola Co., Beverage, Customer, Machine, Coke, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Food & Beverage, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-15

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

What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?

A number of recent conversations with the financial analyst community about the ongoing tussle between Oracle and SAP have proved extremely interesting. There is speculation whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2 although nothing I hear or see suggests the company has been blown...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, SoftwareAG, OpenText, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Banco BHD Manages Risk-Performance Relationship Using SAS Business Analytics

BHD Bank, a pioneer in multiple banking services in the Dominican Republic, was founded in July 1972 and is still the leader in promoting important historical changes in the financial system. As measured by assets, BHD is the second-largest private bank in the country. The challenge was that BHD needed...

Tags: Analytics, Credit Card, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Banco BHD, Banking, Financial Services

Case studies 2009-07-01

Virtual desktop services gain TCO boost with HP clients, Desktone cloud-based 'DaaS' advances

HP and Desktone have made strong market moves into the fast-growing desktops as a service Daas space, also know as desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. These new products and services show an aggressive ramp-up and sophistication to deliver a fast-track to DaaS. HP and Desktone,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtual Desktop, TCO, Desktone, DaaS, Virtual-D Service Center, Fisher, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-01

10 things you still have to worry about until cloud computing becomes reality

10 things you still have to worry about until cloud computing becomes realitySomeone is going to have to worry about those thingsMaybe I don't get cloud computing, but ultimately you applications are running in a process somewhere, and communicating with a process somewhere else. If that's the case, all...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Virtualization, data center, cloud computing, bank

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

Financial Firm Improves Productivity by 20 Per Cent With Relationship Management Software

Privatinvest Bank is a banking subsidiary of Commerzbank, based in Austria. The company employs 50 people, providing financial and investment advice to its clients. Privatinvest Bank must keep customers of its private banking service updated on the value of their investments. In a rapidly changing market, financial advisers need fast...

Tags: Software, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Privatinvest Bank, Banking, Financial Services

Case studies 2009-05-01

Bill to centralize cybersecurity

Cnet reports that Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and Olymbia Snowe have introduced legislation to create a cyberczar position in the White House. According to a press release, the bill would: establish an Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor that would take the lead...

Tags: Cybersecurity, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Microsoft shares hit 11-year low

Microsoft shares hit 11-year lowGet a clue."Everyone's stock is hitting a low point right now with the economy the way it is"It has been going that way for 11 eleven years, just take note of that.Now read Ballmer's words (he may not be too clever but nonetheless he is hugely...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Workforce management, Construction, Microsoft Corp., stock, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Turkish Bank Processes Annual Transactions in Just Eight Hours Due to New Infrastructure

Turkey-based DenizBank realised the evolution of Web technologies presented both challenges and opportunities. The key challenge was to develop a robust infrastructure that could support all banking services reliably. The organisation required a fully integrated environment delivering customer relationship management, business process management, and a business intelligence layer to maximise...

Tags: Customer Satisfaction, Microsoft Corp., Banking, Product Marketing, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Marketing, Business Operations, It Operations, Software

Case studies 2009-02-01

Gold Rush: The Shift Towards Wealth Management in Banking

Wealth management services are provided by banks, professional trust companies, and brokerages. The "High perceived value" of wealth management has more attraction than the "Low cost transaction" for the retail market. Wealth management means taking care of the needs of clients, their families and their businesses as part of a...

Tags: Wealth Management, Wealth Management Service, Business Services, Banking, Financial Services

White papers 2009-01-22

Phishing without bait: The in-session password theft attack

Phishing without bait: The in-session password theft attackMight not work with many banking sites......because most of them log you out with just a minute or two of inactivity...at least the ones I use do.Any info ????Any info on how to mask/erase/disable this Java function? Sounds like our web browsers...

Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, Web browser, phishing, banking, attack, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

Real-Time Alerts: A Big Step Forward in Collaborative Banking

Alerting technology offers banks another opportunity to take a giant, but cost-effective step in refining their customer relationship management strategy. In fact, with the investment that vendors are making in this area, future versions of the solutions will focus extensively on customer demographics and customer lifestyles, which will allow the...

Tags: Bank, Banking, Alert, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Financial Services

White papers 2009-01-15

Finance Industry Uses CRM to Manage Customers

Company Z, is a private investment banking firm that serves as an investor, underwriter and broker to some of the biggest names in the entertainment, technology and information industries. Company Z sought a system that would allow it to quickly and accurately track phone calls, appointments, tasks, company and contact...

Tags: Network Infrastructure, Growth Opportunity, Finance, CRM, Network Infrastructure Technologies, NIT CRM 4.0, Network Administration, Networking

Case studies 2009-01-01

Indosat Meets SOX Compliance With Integrated Identity Management System

Indosat wanted to implement an identity management solution to minimize the risk arising from unauthorized system access and demonstrate compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation by ensuring clear audit trails for all transactions. The challenge was to improve IT security operations control and support new business opportunities such as mobile banking. Indosat...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX Compliance, Identity Management, Identity Management Solution, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Case studies 2008-10-01

Financial Times: Insight Business Growth

Just over a year on from the onset of the credit crunch, and the slowdown in the global economy, the threat of inflation and high oil prices continue to cast a long shadow over corporate profitability and the ability of executives to manage their businesses. World financial markets remain jittery...

Tags: Economic Downturn, Financial Times, Business Software, SAP AG, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Purchasing & Procurement, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Software, Business Operations, Finance

White papers 2008-09-11

TechCrunch50: Day 3

Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...

Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Security expert discusses a possible future for PCI-DSS... it's grim

Jeremiah Grossman discussed some recent comments about section 6.6 of the PCI standard made by Standards Council General Manager Bob Russo in a recent Information Security magazine article.  I found a lot of thoughts I share with Grossman.  Grossman says: I have a love-hate relationship with PCI-DSS. Love it...

Tags: Security, PCI, Web Application, Application Firewall, Security Expert, Jeremiah Grossman, Ruso, Firewalls, Networking, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Customization: curse or blessing?

At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...

Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-24