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Strategic Sourcing of Transaction Processing: From the Back Office to the Boardroom

The financial services industry is undergoing a radical transformation driven by globalization, deregulation, consolidation, and deconstruction of the vertically integrated business models common to transaction-processing businesses. In these uncertain times, unconventional business models that deconstruct traditional structures such as vertically integrated manufacturing and processing businesses are likely to offer more...

Tags: Sourcing, Boston Consulting Group Inc., Transaction Processing, Business Model, Back-office, Financial Services Industry, Globalization, Strategy, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-02-14

Compliance Risk Management

The financial services industry is experiencing tremendous growth, diversification and innovation. Derivatives, globalization, product innovation, dynamic markets, and new methods of taking on and managing financial risk are key catalysts to profit growth and evolution. Wide-scale adoption of high-performance computing like that powered by AMD Opteron processors has further accelerated...

Tags: Financial, Compliance, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Compliance Risk Management, Financial Services Industry, Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Accounting, Business Security, Business Operations, Finance

White papers 2007-07-03

Reducing Cost, Risk, and Complexity for Compliance Data in Financial Services

The financial services industry is facing increasing pressure internationally to comply with a range of new and varied regulations. Enterprise-wide data management and rigorous record keeping are no longer luxuries; they have become life-supporting essentials. This paper examines the business requirements for an advanced, unified architecture, rather than the more...

Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Financial Service, Compliance, NetApp, Financial Services Industry, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-01-01

EMC RepliStor and VMware Software: Providing High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Data Consolidation in Virtual Environments

The financial services industry consists of multiple market verticals, each with its own procedures for handling paper-based documents. Automating business processes in the financial services industry is important not only for the benefit of customer retention, reduced costs, and wider profit margins, but also as a way to assert control...

Tags: Software, Consolidation, Environment, Compliance, High Availability, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Disaster Recovery, Financial Services Industry, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-06-01

Implement Federated Identity Management to Help Accelerate Your on Demand Business

The financial services industry is being buffeted by large changes, both from innovative competitors and demanding customers. Classic business models are feeling the pressure; their days are numbered. To survive in this new environment, firms will have to fundamentally change the way they approach their business. Whether a financial services...

Tags: Financial Service, Industry, Identity Federation, IBM Corp., Financial Services Industry, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Finance, Management

White papers 2005-09-01

What's exciting about Google Talk?

What's exciting about Google Talk?We need more competition and choice!Yes real choices!Google TalklessWhen I get a new tool I like to use it straight away. With Google Talk, I downloaded it and then there was nothing. Not a single soul I could talk to, not even some passing stranger who...

Tags: Instant messaging, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UNIX, financial services industry, voice component, Google Talk, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-08-24

Additional Resources

Cloudworks shows the green side of managed services

Here's a refreshing twist: An executive with an ostensibly "green" technology who really isn't willing to pitch it that way. I'm talking about Cloudworks founder and CEO Mike Eaton, who really cares more instead about the "overall convenience and efficiency" of his company's services. He's playing the economy card, rather...

Tags: Managed Services, IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Small Business, Cloudworks, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-26

Total spending in network services will grow to $9.1 bln in 2012

According to IDC, total spending in Network services (which includes Network Consulting & Integration Services NCIS and Network Management) will grow from $4.7 bln in 2007 to $9.1 bln in 2012 at a compound annual growth rate of 13.7% from 2007-2012. by NB

Tags: Network, Network Service, Networking, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-26

WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liability

The big problem with the allegation that cell phones and other RF energy emitters can cause cancer is that there's no good way to know who's right. On one side we have an industry with lots of money and public support and on the other a few lone voices...

Tags: Phone, Industry, Radio, Health Care, Cell Phone, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-26

Twelve best practices for online customer communities

One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...

Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Software makers may sue eBay

Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...

Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

What paper trail?

I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhose employees?Having done my bit for peace and understanding on other Comments, I've arrived here for edification. (My time on ZDNet is of course billed to charity, volunteer work in the community.)Because of the IBM Global Services connection, might be worthwhile...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., IBM mainframe, data-processing, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

10 essential gadgets for studentsImpressive...A laptop with the same specs as a laptop! Wow!Only 2 are "essential"Out of the list of 10 only #1 is "essential" for students. If in college #10 is also needed, but the other 8 are nothing but luxuries and two are just plain useless....

Tags: Scanners, Digital music, ONLY 2, essential gadget, Digital Pen, phone, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?

Several observers have suggested Levi Strauss used IT failure as an excuse to deflect attention away from deeper and more significant financial challenges. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Financial, Implementation, Information Technology, ERP, Levi Strauss, Software Deployment, Francine, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?Different goals, maybe. Similar imperatives, yes.While the open source community is driven by solving mutual problems and then making the solutions available to everyone, if open source communities hope to make inroads into large organizations,...

Tags: Desktops, Xen, VMware Inc., open-source community, open source, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V

Discussion threads 2008-07-25