Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. wanted to integrate disparate financial systems - resulting from rapid growth through several acquisitions - for more visibility and enable the organization to record financial information from various systems in a single location. The challenge was to accelerate and improve the level of detail in...
How IT can help save the global financial systemCause was a moral fialure, not financial. Unbalanced balance sheets had absolutely nothing to do with the current global financial mess we are in. What happened is that bankers lied to potential borrowers and saddled them with loans they could...
The ongoing global economic downturn, or "Great Recession" as it has been billed, exposed weaknesses in the U.S. financial system and the widespread interdependence of global financial markets. But what about the weaknesses in the information technology infrastructure that makes the global financial system what it is...
MWH Global, Inc. wanted to enable financial transparency by replacing multiple, disparate financial systems with a single global platform and enable the company to assess the profitability of its many complex engineering projects quickly and effectively to support business performance objectives. The challenge was to ensure compliance with auditors' standards...
Catawba County wanted to establish Mental Health Partners of Catawba county - a local management entity responsible for ensuring that the county has an adequate provider network. The challenge was to establish financial books - independent from the county - for Mental Health Partners and include data for a new...
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. UL is an independent product safety certification organization that has been testing product and writing Standards for Safety for more than a century. Underwriters Laboratories Inc. UL wanted to replace disparate financial applications for 26 international business units and establish a consolidated platform for global finance to...
Central Parking Corporation is the world's largest parking services provider. The Company owns, operates and manages parking and related services. Along with the company's growth and success over the years, Central Parking Corporation also has experienced the pains of that growth from an accounting perspective. As they began to investigate...
Paris Mutuel Urbain PMU was founded in 1930 and has GIE economic interest group status with 51 horse racing companies. Paris Mutuel Urbain wanted to implement a next generation accounting and financial solution and integrate new functionality including asset monitoring and budget preparation and monitoring. The challenge was to offer...
The Oracle financial management system has given us greater control and deeper insight into every aspect of our business. The data produced by the system will guide and support our expansion plans." - Ren Qinghe, Financial General Manager, Greatwall Life Insurance Co., Ltd
Fiscality is an advanced, yet easy-to-use Windows-based accounting package--with a difference. You always have information at your fingertips - on screen where it s immediately searchable and usable. Forget about having to grapple with dozens of input screens--Fiscality has only one intuitive grid interface to learn, and it's instantly familiar...
EatAA Allocation Manage is for those who usually expend money with friends together e.g. eating, shopping. It could efficiently help small group to manage current expenditure. Each one of the group members does not have to pay cash when his or her expenditure comes up. AA Allocation Manage will bring...
The Specialist Schools Trust is a not-for-profit organization that is partly funded by the U.K. government. The Trust lacked a sophisticated financial management system that could support their rapid expansion, complex accounting requirements, and regulatory reporting obligations. Limited by its existing Sage software, which was designed for small business use,...
Footwear distributor Garmont had grown rapidly - and outgrown its warehouse management, sales, and financial systems. So it turned to a solution from ADC Technologies Group that is based on Windows Mobile 5.0 and fully integrated into Garmont's Microsoft Dynamics GP financial system. Since Garmont implemented the ADC system in...
A major financial services company is a global leader in hedge fund management services, performing a complete range of accounting, administration, shareholder and corporate services to hedge funds and collective investment schemes. Seeking a solution for integrated communications with its clients and partners, the financial services company chose an Enterprise...
Belle Provence has established a thriving business selling gifts and home furnishings, but co-owners Roy and Diane Reinsch were becoming increasingly frustrated with the limitations of their electronic cash register system, which limited employees' ability to provide exceptional customer service and hurt the Reinsches' ability to make informed purchasing and...
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...
If its MYsql the problem make a foundation out of it IF everybody is so worry about MYsql quick turn this into a foundation big time and sell support.Give away the code , give a version of mysql to a competition on EU to shut them...
Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...
Unveiled alongside its turn-by-turn navigation app for iPhone at WWDC 2009, TomTom's Car Kit for iPhone is finally available for purchase. Offering a bit more than just a way to hold your iPhone steady while driving, the Car Kit also has a GPS receiver built-in, a car charger, and...
A scalable business system that can meet the demands from most small businesses. Start with free writing of invoices on a single computer and expand to a complete invoicing system run on a network. A very easy-to-use system that lets you concentrate on the actual business but still be in...
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