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Fidelity National Real Estate Speeds Time-to-Market 50 Percent, Saves $1.4 Million: Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions wanted the fastest possible time-to-market for a best-of-breed, consumer-oriented Web site for the residential real estate market. It turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Neudesic and to Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008, Virtual Earth, SQL Server, Windows Server 2008, and Silverlight....; Tags: Fidelity Investments, Microsoft Corp., Real Estate, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software; Case studies 2008-02-01
MegaSeg DJ (zip): MegaSeg is the mobile DJ and radio station automation solution for Professional MP3 and QuickTime mixing and programming. You can now organize your MP3 music collection (or nearly any QuickTime supported file format), and segue between songs (cross-fade or beatmix) without using any extra mixing equipment. Organize and find your...; Tags: Apple QuickTime, Fidelity Investments, Radio, MegaSeg, Digital Music, Digital Media, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-11-12
Fidelity Market Monitor (widget): Download this desktop widget to keep you on top of the market. Personalize a new watch list, chart stocks, or just stay current on the latest market news. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Monitor, Fidelity Investments, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Investment, Hardware, Components, Finance; Software downloads 2007-06-28
Fidelity National Title Group: Using RISS for Regulatory Requirements: An HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System helps FNTG respond in days rather than months to regulatory organizations, and expect a return on investment with in 12-18 months.; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Fidelity Investments, Roi/Tco, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware; Webcasts 2007-01-01
High Fidelity Simulation of Mobile Cellular Systems With Integrated Resource Allocation and Adaptive Antennas: Using parallel processing, the execution time of wireless network simulations can be significantly decreased without compromising the fidelity of the simulation. However, incorporating details such as signal propagation, interference, and resource allocation schemes may add considerable complexity to the parallel simulation which may overshadow the gain of parallelization. This paper...; Tags: Mobile, Fidelity Investments, Allocation, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers 2006-12-29

Illumimote: Multi-Modal and High Fidelity Light Sensor Module for Wireless Sensor Networks: The paper describes the system requirements, design, system integration and performance evaluation of the Illumimote, a new light sensing module for wireless sensor networks. The Illumimote supports three different light sensing modalities: incident light intensity, color intensites and incident light angle (the angle of ray arrival from the strongest source),...; Tags: Intensity, Network, Fidelity Investments, Sensor, University Of California, Illumimote, Wi-Fi, Performance Management, Wireless, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2006-09-19
Laptop with HP employee data stolen: Laptop with HP employee data stolennice job assholeIsn't it enough that you idiots laid off all the customer facing sales people in the united states,,,but our 401K's are now going to be raided by identity theives...this is surely the HP WAY...you suckGet with the timesWireless (cellular) broadband is usable and...; Tags: Notebooks, Identity theft, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Fidelity Investments; Discussion threads 2006-03-22
Top IT vendors for financial industry: Sungard, Fidelity, NCR: IDC published a list of top 100 technology vendors for financial industry.FiservSunGardFidelity Information ServicesNCRFirst Data CorporationReutersUnisysDieboldDST SystemsGetronics; Tags: financial, SunGard Data Systems Inc., NCR Corp., Fidelity Investments; Blog posts 2005-11-09
Wireless Technologies, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) & Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax): One of the technological advances that are having a major impact on the way one does business is the increase in wireless networks. This paper references how Wi-Fi technology is deployed and some of its advantages over traditional means. WiMax promises to help corporations expand business, drive down costs, increase...; Tags: Texas A&M University, Fidelity Investments, Wireless Technology, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless; White papers 2005-09-02
Office 12 defaulting to .XML file format: Office 12 defaulting to .XML file formatI wonder about compatabilityM$ patented an XML/binary hybrid format last year. Why would they patent it, if they weren't going to use it? Seems to me that whatever XML format M$ SAYS it will use, my money is on M$ using something proprietary.Internal format...; Tags: XML file, Office 12, Fidelity Investments, XML, Microsoft Corp., Netscape Communications Corp., Microsoft Office; Discussion threads 2005-06-02
ClearStory Systems Case Study: Fidelity Integrated Financial Solutions: As a leader in the outsourcing business, Fidelity Integrated Financial Solutions (formerly AURUM) has shown many businesses how external document management services can increase their productivity. Optical disk systems, though more functional, could not handle the growing volumes of client transaction information and documents. To get this functionality, Fidelity IFS...; Tags: ClearStory Systems, Financial, Fidelity Investments, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Outsourcing, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; Case studies
Superior Customer Relationships: Best Practices of Eastman Kodak Co., Medrad Inc, and Fidelity Investment Services: Most organizations in a given marketplace want close customer relationships and pursue these relationships using advanced technologies, refined and aligned processes, and well-trained people. Unfortunately, competitors often wanting the same customers seek them with similar intensity and tactics. Competition affects industry profitability, and competitive advantage is the...; Tags: Fidelity Investments, Eastman Kodak Co., APQC, Competition, Best Practice, Customer Relationship, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Management, Marketing, Software; White papers
International Network Services Case Study: fidelity investments Institutional Brokerage Group: Institutional Brokerage Group (IBG) is a business unit of Fidelity Investments, the nation's largest mutual fund company. IBG wanted to deploy a new high-speed network to realize the full benefits of planned business model enhancements focused on improving customer services and lowering costs. Engineers designed and deployed the new network,...; Tags: Fidelity Investments, Institutional Brokerage Group, Mutual Funds, Telephony, Retirement Plans, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Benefits, Networking; Case studies
Fidelity's Training Department Saves $350,000 on One Program With WebEx Training Center: Fidelity Information Services, a division of Fidelity National Financial, with clients in more than 50 countries and territories and over 4000 employees located around the globe. When the company reduced the employee training staff from 26 to just 5 trainers, implementing an online learning solution became a matter of survival....; Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Fidelity Investments, Training, Computer-Based Training (CBT), E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
fidelity investments Puts Its Stock in Aldon Lifecycle Manager for iSeries: Fidelity Investments is the world's largest independent fund management organization, with over $680 billion in assets under management. A major ingredient of its success is its long-held belief that developing and using the latest and most sophisticated technology at all levels enables it to fulfill its business objectives and customer...; Tags: IBM iSeries, Fidelity Investments, Stock, Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Servers, Change Management, Hardware, Tools & Techniques, Management; Case studies
Software Company Delivers 64-Bit Fidelity and Speed for Computer-Aided Engineering: Fluent, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS), provides simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes. Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software is used for simulation, visualization, and prediction of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. Fluent customers performing simulations on...; Tags: Fidelity Investments, Fluent Inc., Computer, Product Development, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Product Marketing, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Strategy, Network Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Management, Networking; Case studies
Fidelity National Information Services to Consolidate Data in Multiterabyte Database: Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is a leading provider of technology solutions, processing services, and information services to the financial services and real estate industries, with a growth strategy that includes becoming a premier provider of information. Nowadays, FIS stores its data on a dozen different database systems, including a...; Tags: Fidelity Investments, Information Service, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies
Fidelity Information Services Saves 18 Months, $4 Million in Migrating Loan Software: Fidelity Information Services wanted to make its flagship loan origination software, Empower, fully Internet enabled and more scalable, as well as make it easy to integrate with a customer's other systems and easy to customize with new and additional services. To meet those objectives, Fidelity worked with Avanade and Microsoft...; Tags: Fidelity Investments, Information Service, Microsoft Corp., Fidelity Information Services, Internet, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Tool Helps Financial-Services Firm Reach Out to High-End Brokers and Customers: Streetscape for Windows, a system developed by Fidelity Investments, gives brokers using Fidelity services the ability to easily manage customer accounts while gaining real-time access to Fidelity financial products. Drawing on the flexibility and power of Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET and smart-client design, Streetscape for Windows is an...; Tags: Financial, Fidelity Investments, Tool, Microsoft Windows, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Finance; Case studies

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CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS: I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-13