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First National Bank Builds 360 Degrees of Customer Vision

In 1998, as a consequence of the merger of Rand Merchant Bank Holdings and Anglo American, First National Bank FNB became the retail banking division of the newly formed FirstRand Limited, which trades on the Johannesburg and Namibian Stock Exchanges. The challenge was to increase the number and effectiveness of...

Tags: 360-degree, First National Bank, SAS Institute, Vision, Banking, Financial Services

Case studies 2009-01-01

South African Bank Gains Consistent View of Project Managers' Work

First National Bank FNB is a leading financial services organisation in South Africa with 680 branches. The FNB Branch Banking division saw the need to better align projects at its branches with its business strategy, and to gain a single view of multiple projects in every branch. Having already implemented...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Portfolio Management, Branch, First National Bank, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2007-11-01

South African Bank Gains Consistent View of Project Managers' Work

First National Bank FNB is a leading financial services organisation in South Africa with 680 branches. The FNB Branch Banking division saw the need to better align projects at its branches with its business strategy, and to gain a single view of multiple projects in every branch. Having already implemented...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Portfolio Management, Branch, First National Bank, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2007-11-01

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Comcast's Burke: TV Everywhere trials going national in 30 to 60 days

Comcast has built a TV Everywhere site that's "complicated technically," but will roll out nationally as a pilot in the next 30 to 60 days, said Stephen Burke, chief operating officer of the cable giant. Burke, speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2009 Media, Communications...

Tags: Comcast Corp., TV, Cable, WiMAX, Network Technology, Wireless And Mobility, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Do video games really make you fat, depressed?

I don't know about this survey. I'll have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm sure there are plenty of overweight video gamers (we are the U.S.A. afterall), but it all depends on lifestyle and the video games being played. Take a look at the wii,...

Tags: Games, Corporate communications, game, Nintendo Wii, video game, video, baseball

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Elvis, your e-passport is ready!

Elvis, your e-passport is ready!I forwarded this to the Dutch mediaLet's see whether they'll understand the severity of the issue.http://www.linkslife.co.ukthat is a joke passportRE: Elvis, your e-passport is ready!Years ago a movie called "The Net" with Sandra Bullock hit the scene, and everyone freaked. Yes it was a little over...

Tags: Dutch Passport, e-passport, ELVIS, passport, RFID

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Building a vision for Government 2.0need for binding electionsIf Democracy 2.0 is only about more discussion then nothing is really going to change. We need binding elections on issues, that is, we need national ballot initiatives. In 24 states, we have ballot initiatives. Ballot initiatives permit public policy to catch...

Tags: Government, vision, ballot initiative, NI4D, National Initiative

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

GOP to go with McCain plan

GOP to go with McCain planMcCain was defeated, not his health care planWhile it's become commonplace for pundits to treat electoral defeat as the equivalent of personal repudiation and the rejection of everything the candidate stands for, that is not and never has been the case. If it were,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

News to know: Microsoft; Oracle patches; Google; HP; Facebook; Win 7 systems ;

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 makes it official: Forefront reaches the cloud Ryan Naraine: Microsoft tackles patch management metrics with Project Quant Oracle...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Taxes, Patches, Free Trade, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-16

IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herring

IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herringDatabases galoreIBM has a pile of databases besides DB2, like IMS, the Informix products, Universe/Unidata, Cloudscape also called Derby and JavaDB, etc. MySQL is accretive to share, at least, and IBM is well-versed in maintaining multiple database product lines.only IBM...

Tags: Servers, Databases, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

A password vault is as mandatory as anti-virus

We all need to get out of the mindset that our primary e-mail address combined with a single universal password are our credentials for the world. Admit it. You have one password. You may even have half a dozen variations on your childhood cat's name,...

Tags: Password, Antivirus, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Why ComCast hates - and fears - the Internet

Why ComCast hates - and fears - the InternetCooling process"Gigabit Ethernet to every home should be a national goal. Let people, not companies, decide what they want to see. Let entrepreneurs build new services to use that bandwidth and see what happens."I agree with the UK government's answer to piracy...

Tags: NETWORKING, Comcast Corp., Internet

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

What goes around comes around

What goes around comes aroundThe picture is wrong.It should be a group photo of Congress, with Barny and Nancy front and center holding up their book called "How to Destroy an economy in 9 short years"Chapter 1 starts with the Community Reinvestment Act. Introduce an enforced social program where...

Tags: Financial services, Chapter 4, Chapter 11, Chapter 7, bank, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

2009

Here are a few more projections of what could happen in greentech world during 2009. First some predictions about what could be up in the world of infrastructure. (I know that's a useful word but I sure hate it...how about big stuff, instead?) These are...

Tags: China, Public Sector, Financial, Infrastructure, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-31

A $1 billion plan for car-charging network

A $1 billion plan for car-charging networkAre you serious?Hybrid cars are only the first step in the process of moving toward alternative energy. If you seriously believe that we are going to be able to continue use gasoline, even in smaller quantities, then you might want to start paying...

Tags: apparatu, car-charging network, car, electric vehicle, linear distance, battery, network

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal

The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search dealThe chattering class???"The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship" ...Why would companies like Microsoft and Yahoo let their business strategies be driven by "the...

Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

SPAM and the free lunch

SPAM and the free lunchSIMPLE SOLUTION: Mandatory email server registration!(1) Get rid of "Reply-to:" tags.(2) Mandatory email server registration using credit cards, at yearly rate $2~3 dollars.This will make spammers impossible to operate without being caught.What SPAM is that?During the height of the "bad old days" of spam, I got...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

The real health care change we need

The real health care change we needThe HIPAA police are watchingIndeed medicine lacks quite a bit in the adoption of new tech. However, your doctor is quite correct in citing HIPAA as a big part of the problem. Unfortunately HIPAA was designed by, let's say, less technically literate folks and...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, HEALTHCARE, HIPAA, patient, patient information, health care

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Microsoft says crisis will impact tech

Microsoft says crisis will impact techGround Control to L.E.M. Apollo13 Gemini has returned to Canada:Tom Hanks Impersonator,"Aren't we glad Houston didn't say San Fransico. That fire would wipe-out the SSA and put fourteen million Americans out of their homes."" I wonder how my trailer park is doing?"Wrong!!What's needed is NOT...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft says crisis, MICROSOFT SAYS

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

The role of media in the Internet age

Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...

Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-08-27