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

White papers 2008-02-14

Security That Counts: The Need for Secure Software for Financial Services Providers

The financial services industry has some of the most stringent requirements for data privacy and regulatory compliance. Not only do customers and partners rely on the privacy and confidentiality of this critical data, but there are stringent data security requirements imposed on financial institutions by various regulatory agencies and multinational...

Tags: Software, Financial, Financial Service, Data Security, Ounce Labs, Financial Services Industry, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance

White papers 2007-07-05

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: Financial Service, Compliance, NetApp, Financial Services Industry, Data Management, Storage, Financial Planning, Hardware, Finance

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, Compliance, High Availability, Virtual Environment, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Disaster Recovery, Financial Services Industry, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-06-01

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

Peak oil panic? Dubai or not Dubai?

Harry, please ignore the deniersThey will try to quash any voice of reason. I believe they hope to maneuver themselves into a position where they can argue that they should not be affected by the consequences because they don't believe in man-made climate change. Pure selfishness.Keep it coming. We are...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, oil

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

FCC to review regulatory and legal impacts to cloud services and identity management

FCC Overstepping its authority againWhy do we as a society, blindly ignore when the government overreaches its authority?The FCC only has authority to regulate the airwaves.The Internet and related technologies have nothing to do with the FCC, and they have no authority in this area.We need to wake up, people....

Tags: Federal government, Big Government, identity management, FCC, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

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

A Case for Enterprise-Wide Solutions for AML and Anti-Fraud

Navigating the ever-changing/dynamic financial services industry successfully for most institutions translates into growing revenue while simultaneously controlling costs. From revisiting business models to evaluating how best they can improve analytics and risk management strategies, banks today are metamorphosing into institutions encompassing a variety of businesses such as insurance, securities, investment...

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Banking, Financial Services, Finance

White papers 2009-10-22

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs

One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...

Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Perot Systems acquires BearingPoint's China consulting unit

Perot Systems, set to be acquired by Dell, said it is acquiring BearingPoint's China consulting unit out of bankruptcy. BearingPoint, which is currently in bankruptcy, has a China consulting unit that was formed in 2001 statement. BearingPoint China Consulting specializes in the energy, automotive, insurance and financial...

Tags: China, Perot Systems Corp., Consulting, BearingPoint Inc., Consulting Unit, BearingPoint China Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-12

DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

The Department of Justice is looking into IBM's mainframe business for anticompetitive behavior. According to a bevy of reports, the DOJ is requesting information from IBM's smaller rivals. The Computer and Communications Industry Association has been stumping for a probe of IBM's mainframe practices. ...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Justice, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-08

U.S. Internet ad revenue: Down 5.3 percent; Search rules

U.S. Internet advertising revenue checked in at $10.9 billion for the first six months of 2009, down 5.3 percent from a year ago, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. As usual, search and display advertising dominated the standings. Search advertising totaled $5.1 billion for the...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

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

Financial Advisory Firm Uses xRM to Speed New Services to Market

CAPTRUST Financial Advisors is carving out a growing niche as a specialized investment advisory firm for companies and affluent individuals. CAPTRUST needed to differentiate itself through unique client tools and services, and support rapid changes to applications. CAPTRUST tapped Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Customer Effective to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM...

Tags: Financial, Retirement Plan, Microsoft Corp., CAPTRUST Financial Advisors

Case studies 2009-09-24

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