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SocGen: it's worse, they knew.

The French finance ministry has slammed Société Génerale, saying they knew there were deficiencies in their approach to controlling risk prior to rogue trader Jérome Kerviel's disastrous run. Finextra reports that: French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde told reporters that SocGen failed to apply appropriate controls over Jérome Kerviel, who...

Tags: Bank, Risk Management, Finance Ministry, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Finance Ministry Connects to DX System for Centralised Server Management

The Provincial Finance Ministry of Tibet, China, among their responsibilities is local economic and financial management. The finance ministry has an extensive number of servers that provide a multitude of services to network users. The existing KVM system in place was unable to satisfy the demands of the finance ministry...

Tags: Server Management, Server, Minicom Advanced Systems, Finance Ministry, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance

Case studies 2007-01-15

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The Ottawa Hospital Enables Full End to End Integration With Largest Vendors to Improve Efficiency

The Ottawa Hospital wanted to support a Ministry of Finance initiative to introduce e-commerce to the healthcare supply chain to drive greater efficiency and enhance quality of care and expedite and improve the accuracy of purchasing processes with major medical and surgical supply vendors. The challenge was to improve visibility...

Tags: Supply Chain, Hospital, Oracle Corp., Health Care, Integration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Healthcare, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-05-01

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Reduces Stock Distribution Time by 80%

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to achieve 24-hour-a-day stock level visibility at the ministry's warehouse, which stores stationery, furniture, and electronics and improve stock control and rapid ordering of new stock. The challenge was to ensure optimum use of the ministry's fixed government budget and deploy a financial management...

Tags: Ministry, Stock, Investment, Finance

Case studies 2009-02-01

Between Now and 2010, 45,000 HP Printers Are to Be Installed in the Offices of the Ministry of Finance

The French Ministry of Finance MiNEFI wanted to streamline its printing purchases by offering a reduced selection of network laser printers as part of a hardware update. Following an invitation to tender, the Central Buying Agency ACA of the French Ministry of Finance opted for a mono-brand HP distributor, LNA,...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Office, Laser, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2008-11-01

Ministry of Finance of Federation BiH Improves Consolidation and Purchasing Times by Over 100%

The Federal Ministry of Finance wanted to integrate fragmented financial data stores to create single view of financial information and increase timeliness of financial data by enabling real-time transaction processes. The challenge was to accelerate processes, including procure to pay and credit to cash, and speed up analysis and report...

Tags: Financial, Consolidation, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2008-08-01

Government Agency Enhances Security, Eases IT Maintenance With New Operating System

The Ministry of Economy and Finance in Greece is responsible for establishing budgets and economic reform policies. The Ministry has witnessed a steady increase in the number of employees who are mobile or working from remote locations and require access to sensitive data. The agency sought to provide employees with...

Tags: Security, Agency, Information Technology, Operating System, Government, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Ministry, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Marketing

Case studies 2008-06-01

Twenty-Six Indicators Serving the French Ministry of Defence

With an annual budget of almost 37 billion euros and a workforce of 420,000 people, the French Ministry of Defence may be compared with private conglomerates such as Siemens. Moreover, since the introduction of the LOLF the Institutional Act on Finance Legislation, its results are scrutinised in the same way...

Tags: Board, Balanced Scorecard, Corporate Governance, Marketing, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Case studies 2008-04-24

Finnish Government Implements Centralized IT Platform for Cross-Ministerial Processes

Finnish Government wanted to create a reliable, scalable, and consolidated Information Technology IT infrastructure following a merger of the IT units of the government, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Ministry of Finance in 2004 and provide a unified platform for the two separate process systems used by the government...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Strategy, Government, Management

Case studies 2008-02-01

Cisco ramps up China investment

Cisco plans to invest as much as $16 billion over the next five years in China. That's nearly double the $8.5 billion Cisco has committed to China since 2002. Cisco CEO John Chambers outlined Cisco's three to five year plan at a shindig Thursday in Beijing. There are a...

Tags: China, Investment, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-01

ADACOM Undertakes the Public Project for the Development of the Certification Practice Statement and Certification Policy for the Use of PKI in the Electronic Applications of the Greek Taxation Authority

General Secretariat of Information Systems GSIS is responsible for the development and operation of all the crucial Information Systems supporting the Greek Ministry of Economic and Finance. Currently, the most important implemented projects are TAXIS for the taxation, TaxisNet for the online service of the taxpayers and enterprises, and ICISnet...

Tags: PKI, ADACOM, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2007-09-05

Borland Software Case Study: Cybersoft Information Technologies

Cybersoft is the leading software house in Turkey, specializing in enterprise-scale information system development projects for e-government and financial services. The company wanted to increase the quality of services presented to taxpayers and enhance tax collection. The challenge was to integrate the Ministry of Finance with other institutions. Cybersoft deployed...

Tags: CyberSoft, Information Technology, Borland Software Corp., Taxes, E-government, Free Trade, Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Government, Management

Case studies 2007-06-28

Belgian Ministry of Finance Improves Training Efficiency With IBM Workplace Collaborative Learning

The Belgian Ministry of Finance had been relying on classroom-based education to train employees with some waiting lists of 15 months or more. To improve employee productivity and speed education delivery, the Belgian Ministry of Finance wanted to modernize its educational system by introducing e-learning. As the organization considered how...

Tags: Workplace, IBM Workplace, Training, Finance, IBM Corp., E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-11-21

Scary IT: Ministry of suspicious walks

Scary IT: Ministry of suspicious walksJust a few years......that's all Orwell was off by. Everything else seems to be falling right into place.The suspicious walks algorhythm is a minor worry.Apparently the cameras also have software to determine whether they are obtruding on people in the privacy of their bedrooms,...

Tags: information technology, camera, suspicious walk, Orwell, govt, ID card, walk

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Gates to Asia: Open source bad for jobs

Asia's growing goodwill towards open source. The Malaysian Ministry of Finance began funding open source startups in 2004, it's venture arm planning to invest in 40 open source software companies."If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2004-07-12

Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of the Republic of Nicaragua Increases System Enterprise Management

The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Nicaragua is a public agency that assists executive authorities in financial management. The challenge was to increase system availability; generate immediate, accurate, efficient reports within the financial and human resources departments; and lead the transformation of the state from paper-based to e-government,...

Tags: Enterprise Management, Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Financial Management, E-government, Financial Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Government, Marketing, Software, Data Management

Case studies

Israeli Government IT Service Chooses Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for Efficiency

TEHILA, a division of the Israeli Ministry of Finance, provides IT services for the government of Israel. For years, TEHILA used a UNIX-based server computer to provide e-mail services for the Ministry of Finance, but with increasing demands, efficiency suffered. TEHILA wanted to replace the e-mail system, but needed to...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., TEHILA, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Government, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

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SUSE Relieves a Taxing Situation

This division of El Salvador's Ministry of Finance used Alpha-based servers running Digital UNIX. Reliable as these systems had been over the years, they were both outdated and expensive to update, and the internal revenue department needed to upgrade quickly. Migration testing was started, and the first people to respond...

Tags: Revenue, Novell Inc., SuSE, Open Source, Operational Accounting, UNIX, Operating Systems, Finance, Software

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IRB Cuts Development Time in Half With Computer Associates' AllFusion Gen

The Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia IRB or Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri is one of the main revenue collecting agencies of the Ministry of Finance. IRB was given the mandate to implement a nationwide self-assessment tax system by 2004. Given the timeframe and magnitude of the project, IRB needed a...

Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., CA AllFusion, IRB, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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