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HP print soultions and Barclays Wealth

Leading investment management advisor Barclays Wealth wanted to replace its disparate, multi-vendor print environment with a more efficient and environmentally sound solution. One of the business benefits, Annual savings from cash efficiencies and lower support costs amount to £1.25 million ($2.0m), a cost reduction of over 50 per cent in...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Barclays Plc., Investment, Finance

White papers 2009-10-14

Barclays Global Investors Accelerates Database Deployments to Support Critical Trading Applications

Barclays Global Investors wanted to implement a scalable IT infrastructure to support the company's core business - investment and asset management research and analysis and provide advanced support for transition from Sybase to Oracle Database for critical applications. The challenge was to reduce maintenance windows to meet increasing application uptime...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Barclays Plc., Investor, Storage, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-02-01

CDC Software Case Study: Barclays

Barclays is a UK-based financial services group, with a large international presence in Europe, the U.S., Africa, and Asia. Barclays required a new system to help it manage complaints and feedback from customers. Its previous system was fragmented, with 33 largely independent systems supporting it across the company. Due to...

Tags: Barclays Plc., CDC Software, Product Marketing, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance

Case studies 2008-02-12

Former HP chairman pleads not guilty to felonies

Former HP chairman pleads not guilty to feloniesDid Dunn surrender her passport?Dunn was released on her own recognizance? As far as I know, she still is on the board of directors for a large firm based in EnglandAfter working as an investigative reporter, Dunn woked in finance as a temporary...

Tags: pond, Barclays Plc., Barclays Global, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

Did Barclays err in going with card readers for two-factor security?

Did Barclays err in going with card readers for two-factor security?Physical 'tokens' are comingIts good to see that others are picking up on this trail. The card reader is an issue, although in the Netherlands I did see ABN Amro trial a version of this that was compact and generated...

Tags: security, token, card reader, Barclays Plc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Did Barclays err in going with card readers for two-factor security?

Here on Between the Lines, I've routinely hounded the US banking industry for not biting the bullet and moving all of its customers regardless of whether the customers like it or not to a multi-factor two or more system for authenticating users for online banking. For some banks in...

Tags: authenticator

Blog posts 2006-08-09

Most popular sites among 30-something Brits: Barclays, Argos, Halifax

Popular sites among UK Internet users ages 30 and above involve money and saving, Nielsen//NetRatings reports.Most popular sites among 30-something BritsSiteReachAudience, 000Barclays30%564Argos28%972Halifax28%642Play.com26%666PayPal26%1,172The National Lottery26%840Tesco25%981eBay23%2,796Channel 422%586Amazon22%1,764Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

Tags: Argos, Barclays Plc.

Blog posts 2006-03-15

The Lion - Barclays Premiership Desktop Alerts 1 (Windows)

If you love Barclays Premiership football, you'll love The Lion. Official Desktop Messenger of The FA Premier League. The Lion is an exclusive application designed to provide you with instant access to the latest news from the world's most exciting league plus offers, competitions, results, reports, fixture changes and exclusive...

Tags: League, Barclays Plc., Skinkers, Lion, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Security, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2005-12-29

Barclays PLC Trusts eGain

Ranked third among UK-based banks, Barclays PLC offers a comprehensive array of consumer and corporate financial services, with offices in more than 60 countries around the world. In 1998, faced with a rapidly expanding customer base and the need to boost productivity without increasing staff, Barclays executives began searching for...

Tags: Barclays Plc., eGain Communications Corp., Strategy, Financial Services, Management

Case studies

Barclays Predicts Significant Returns Thanks to Standardised Microsoft Technologies and Collaboration Software

Barclays Bank promised and delivered shareholders cost reductions of £1 billion and needed to find new ways of streamlining business processes and increasing efficiency to meet this target. As part of this exercise, the bank chose to standardise its desktops on Microsoft software, and adopt the Microsoft Office system, such...

Tags: Collaboration, Barclays Plc., Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software

Case studies

Barclays Capital Achieves Guaranteed Reliability and Performance With New Fixed-Income Solution

Barclays Capital is one of the stellar success stories in investment banking of recent years. The firm's projected growth plan required the bank to review its existing fixed-income trading system, to see how it could handle an increasing amount of trading volume. After close consultation with Microsoft Services, Barclays Capital...

Tags: Latency, Performance, Barclays Plc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Barclays Capital, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies

Barclays Bank Deploys SecureWave Sanctuary Device Control to Remove USB Security Risk

Barclays is a UK-based financial services group and an international banking organisation, with branches throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and South America, engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. The challenge was to create a secure environment within the branch network and to secure against the unauthorised use of USB...

Tags: Barclays Plc., USB, SecureWave, Banking, Financial Services

Case studies

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Barclays Bank PLC - Bank Adopts Technology to Improve Customer Satisfaction and Promote Retention

Barclays Bank PLC provides banking, investment banking, and investment management services throughout the world, including the Arabian Peninsula. After introducing consumer banking services in the United Arab Emirates, a system was needed to track and resolve both complaints and sales leads in a timely manner. To ensure the retention and...

Tags: Bank, Customer Satisfaction, Microsoft Corp., Banking, Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Sales

Case studies 2009-05-06

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

EU issues antitrust charge sheet against Intel

EU issues antitrust charge sheet against IntelBodes Poorly For Microsoft ; Patty DunnIntel and Microsoft use to be refereed to as the evil duopoly in the USA. When Microsoft went up on antitrust charges, Intel executives are reported to have said - well thank god it wasn't us. Clearly the...

Tags: Corporate law, BGI, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., antitrust, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-26