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Enkata 6 Supports Operational Performance Management

For several years Enkata Technologies has supported operational performance management in its chosen vertical markets, Healthcare and Telecommunications. The new release of its product adds not only functionality for these two sectors but also a specialist module for consumer-directed healthcare plans, a new module to support Financial Services and technical...

Tags: Performance, Financial Service, Ventana Research, Financial Services Application, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance

White papers 2006-05-25

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Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Altova MapForce Enterprise Edition 2010 (Windows)

Altova MapForce 2010 Enterprise Edition is a graphical data mapping, conversion, and integration tool. This award-winning application lets you map between any combination of XML, database, flat file, EDI, Microsoft Excel 2007, XBRL, and/or Web service. Then it transforms data instantly or autogenerates royalty-free application code for the execution of...

Tags: Altova, Microsoft SQL Server, Web Service, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, Altova MapForce, Altova MapForce 2010 Enterprise Edition, EDI, XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Financial Services ISV Fosters Flexibility and Cost Savings With Hosted Solution

CCH, which provides software for business professionals, adapted its sales tax - calculation application to run on the Windows Azure platform. CCH expects its use of Windows Azure to result in greater choice for customers, the ability to scale on demand, and lower costs. The company found the learning curve...

Tags: Financial, Platform, Financial Service, Cost Savings, Microsoft Corp., CCH, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales

Case studies 2009-11-01

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services

Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...

Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-30

SAP regaining its mojo?

Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Quicken Deluxe 2010

With Quicken 2010, Intuit strives to make its flagship money management application easier to navigate and simpler to set up, thanks to spruced-up visuals and a refreshed start-up wizard. Although already a solid balance-keeper and financial assistant in previous versions, Quicken 2010 adds a few new features to visualize your...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Financial accounting, Financial services, home screen, Deluxe, Quicken

Product reviews 2009-10-15

Compiere launches enterprise ERP version

One leading open source ERP provider this week launched an enterprise edition of its software as well as upgrades to its standard and professional versions. Redwood Shores, Calif. based Compiere has released a version of its open source ERP application that offers more scalability and availability. The...

Tags: Enterprise Edition, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Software, Finance, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Caitong Securities Brokerage Processes 300,000 Daily Transactions With Powerful Database Platform

Caitong Securities Brokerage Co wanted to enable the efficient processing of large volumes of financial transactions for brokerage services and ensure optimum performance even during peak trading periods. The challenge was to reduce the financial threat to the business of trading in high-risk products such as futures commodities. Caitong Securities...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Accounting, Databases, Storage, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

Empowering ITIL Success With WhatsUp Gold

WhatsUp Gold provides cross-silo application and infrastructure support, a rich set of monitoring methods, and single console coverage across multiple management domains. These capabilities make it an ideal platform for planning and deploying ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library based processes. ITIL processes can provide substantial benefits to IT organizations including...

Tags: Ipswitch Inc., Information Technology, WhatsUp Gold, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2009-10-01

Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA

Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Dataram storage appliance squeezes more out of storage infrastructure

At more than 40 years old, Dataram certainly isn't a technology start-up, but the memory company has come up with a new approach to storage optimization that could help midsize companies squeeze out more performance from their existing devices. The technology, called XcelaSAN, is an appliance that...

Tags: XcelaSAN, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-28

AT&T: Google Voice doesn't play fair

So FCC chairman Julius Genachowski wants fairness, eh? We'll give you fairness, says AT&T. In a letter filed with the FCC, the company says, Did you notice, FCC, that Google is blocking phone calls from Google Voice users in rural areas? Why are they doing that? Access expense ...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Commission, Voice, AT&T Corp., Internet, Federal Government, Sales Force Management, Government, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Interesting things I've been briefed on lately...

NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,.... NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use...

Tags: Food, Open Source, Information Technology, NetSuite Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-15

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Identity Theft, Phishing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Young man yells at cloud

Nice theory, but..."Or as Mark Twain once said, ?Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.?"But isn't moving to the "cloud" putting all your eggs all in one basket...and that all you can do is watch...because you have NO control over it.And how about when your "cloud"...

Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, SECURITY, Young Man

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Financial Services Firm Boosts Productivity and Customer Satisfaction With New System

ValMark Securities' insurance business was handicapped by an inflexible third-party Agency Management System AMS. Managers were forced to use a report database populated with day-old data to run the business. When customers contacted the company expecting the reps to have the most up-to-date information, the data lag sometimes frustrated customers....

Tags: Financial Service, Customer Satisfaction, Microsoft Corp., ValMark Securities, Insurance, Financial Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Marketing, Software

Case studies 2009-09-01

The PMI Group, Inc. Increases Enterprise System Performance and Streamlines IT Maintenance

PMI Group wanted to ensure that PMI Group's enterprise systems are reliable and easily accessible to its globally dispersed workforce and maintain high employee satisfaction, evident in the company's listing as one of the "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area". The challenge was to minimize IT costs and...

Tags: PMI Group Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, Performance, Information Technology, Banking, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Financial Services, Finance, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01