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Advantages of a Personal Workstation in Financial Services IT Environments: Typical IT environments in financial institutions manage large volumes of high value transactions. For organizations to compete in this marketplace, they must make use of information technology effectively to ensure accuracy and security as well as to drive down operating costs. IT managers are sometimes tempted to use low-cost PCs...; Tags: Financial, Personal Workstation, Financial Application, Workstations, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2006-09-01
Santa Clara University Moves to Strategic Budgeting With PeopleSoft: Implementing a strategic budgeting approach means getting the senior management more involved in the budget process, providing them with direct access to the information they need to better align budget decisions with the Santa Clara University's broader strategic goals. To get that information, the University needed tighter integration between their...; Tags: FINANCIAL SERVICES, Santa Clara University, budgeting, PeopleSoft Inc., senior management, financial application; Case studies 2004-10-21
Consolidating Banking and financial applications Onto a Unified Platform: Banks have always been pioneers of new technology, and it should be no surprise that one of the first large-scale projects to use the Linux operating system should come from a leading bank. Linux, the so-called 'Shareware' operating system, has grown steadily over the last five years and the technical...; Tags: Bank, Financial, Banking, Jacada Ltd., Financial Application, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Financial Services, Software; Case studies
Microsoft Business Solutions Webcast: Great Plains financial applications Helps Nonprofit Organizations Run More Efficiently - Level 100: Managing a not-for-profit organization requires business, financial, and reporting practices that are complex and unique. In this webcast, you will discover how the recently integrated functionality within Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains Financials solves the needs of not-for-profit (NFP) organizations and enables them to run more efficiently. You will...; Tags: Webcast, Great Plains Software, Microsoft Corp., Financial Application, Digital Media, Financial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance; Webcasts
CNIM Group Successfully Migrates Its Subsidiary's financial applications to Reduce Costs: CNIM Group (Constructions Industrielles de la Mediterranee) develops turnkey industrial solutions in three major product and services sectors: the environment, mechanical engineering, and energy. The challenge was to modernize the LAB subsidiary's Oracle E-Business Suite financial applications by upgrading to version 11.i.10; reduce operating and maintenance costs by consolidating business...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Business Application, Financial Application, Enterprise Software, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Software, Finance; Case studies

International Hospital Group Improves financial applications, Gains Over $56 Million in Benefits With BMC Software's BSM Solution: An international hospital group headquartered in the United States, in pursuit of operational excellence, was looking to provide IT services that operate in a predictable way. In the short term, it wanted to improve the performance of critical financial applications, and set and meet service level goals for those applications....; Tags: BMC Software Inc., Hospital, Financial, Business Service Management, Benefit, Financial Application, Vertical Industries, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Roi/Tco, Operational Accounting, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies

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McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!: Not to beat a dead horse, that's already been beaten to death time and time again, but... Update 05/12/08: Russ McRee has actually just posted a story about "Why PCI DSS is Doomed". Came across this page on McAfee's site about their "McAfee Secure", "McAfee...; Tags: Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-12
New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released: Microsoft released a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation, their next generation windows application UI framework. The new version will ship as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Tim Sneath has a very long and detailed post of the features but I'll try and break down the...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-12
SOA Software acquires respository and governance vendor LogicLibrary: SOA Software, a provider of governance solutions for services-oriented architecture (SOA), has acquired LogicLibrary, a leading SOA repository and governance vendor. The acquisition of the Pittsburgh, Pa.-based LogicLibrary by Los Angeles-based SOA Software creates a more comprehensive SOA governance and automation solution, said the companies. The goal...; Tags: Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Mobile software Monday: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting: My plan was to post software reviews here every Monday, but at times my schedule and life doesn't allow me to give a full test of a software package and write up my thoughts so I missed last week. Thus, I am posting a double review this week on Mobile...; Tags: Application, Device, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Podcasting, S60, Nokia Podcasting Application, Submissions, Podcasts, Storage, Databases, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn: Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...; Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Google kicks off its Facebook ground war: Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Major career web sites hit by spammers attack: What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...; Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Powerset's search: Does it deliver?: Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has managed to get a ton of attention. The larger question for me: Does it deliver? And where does Powerset make the most sense? Powerset on Monday introduced its natural language search for Wikipedia content (Techmeme). This effort...; Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Web, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Powerset shows semantic search solution: Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...; Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-12
The application interface problem: I believe that almost any programming language can be used to build almost any kind of user interface, but that the closer the user interface is to the assumptions built into the language, the simpler and more efficient this component of the overall application will be. More importantly, I believe...; Tags: Application, User Interface, Tool, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-12
True Server Virtualization: I see that Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy Officer over at Virtual Iron, recently presented some interesting comments about what makes up true server virtualization in his blog. In his post, he points out that "The hypervisor is important and is useful for consolidating servers. But true server virtualization isn't just...; Tags: Environment, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, Server Virtualization, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Image Gallery: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting applications: HanDBase 4.0 is the latest release of one of the most popular mobile database applications that works with Windows Mobile, S60, and Palm devices. There are desktop clients for Windows and Mac as well. The Nokia Podcasting application is a free podcatcher application and does not actually...; Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, HanDBase 4.0, Nokia Podcasting Application, Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller, screenshots, nokia, podcasting, mobile database, windows mobile, s60, palm; Image galleries 2008-05-12
To Catch a Thief: To catch a thief ... the high-tech way. Somone broke into Kait Dupalga's apartment and stole TVs, iPods, a set of car rims – and Kate's Mac laptop. The big break in the case came when a friend of Kate's sent her a text message congratulating...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mr., Friend, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?: "What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....; Tags: Hype, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-11