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- Florida Bank Simplifies Collaboration Solution Deployment With Licensing Agreement
- Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, BankAtlantic provides convenient customer service, with longer than usual banking hours. Yet, manual business processes and inefficient policy and procedure document management impeded staffers' productivity and ability to keep up with growth and customer demands. BankAtlantic renewed its Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft to simplify and...
- Tags: Licensing Agreement, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Florida Bank, Groupware, Banking, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Services
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- Open source and innovation as maintenance models
- Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that: This would appear to be...
- Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with with eight North American banks to deliver fraud alerts in real-time via SMS text messages and e-mails to cell phones. The pilot program will allow about 2,000 Visa cardholders to set thresholds that will trigger an immediate transaction alert...
- Tags: Bank, Visa Inc., Transaction, Cardholder, Financial Services, Telecom & Utilities, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any email submitted to hundreds of newsletters anonymously. What is SpamZa anyway? SpamZa is...
- Tags: Newsletter, Spam, Spamming, SpamZa, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Waiting for Fay
- One of the joys of living along the coast of Florida is the opportunity to see tropical storms and hurricanes up close and very personal. After moving all of the outdoor furniture up under the eaves or into the house and closing the hurricane shutters (big fan-fold aluminum jobs), all...
- Tags: Hurricane, Food & Beverage, Engineering, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, Manufacturing, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Excel and Basic Accounting Error
- Excel and Basic Accounting ErrorWe should go back to manual ledgers...VisiCalc was created to eliminate accounting errors. Now the spreadsheet is now being blamed for accounting errors. Perhaps the real problem is GIGO. Garbage in, Garbage out.The real culprit is slick sleaze ball corporate accountants and managers that are trying...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, fun thing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, big system, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- The beatings will continue until SOA governance improves
- The beatings will continue until SOA governance improvesnice article - added to thesoablog.comI added a link to TheSOABlog -- I have had the same experiences with governance as you.http://www.thesoablog.com/2008/08/soa-governance-must-improve.htmlGovernance is only one aspect of SOAIf SOA is not implemented correctly as part of the enterprise architecture, with services designed to...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, cloud computing, SOA, beating, SOA governance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Searching by color to nibble away at Google.
- I have to admit that I raised an eyebrow when I read the L.A. Times piece about "Black Google." No, it wasn't talking about the color of the screen (though I have written about a black screen search engine being green.) Instead, it was talking about the racial color of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Times, Search, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorlyWhat if..they need to install diagnostic software?You are kidding, right?So you change your password when you get it back. Or change it before you send it in.It's the same in the Windows world - you pretty much need and Admin password to do anything.This...
- Tags: Apple Inc., password, security, admin password
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Mortgage Accelerator (zip)
- Shave thousands of dollars and many years off your current mortgage by using a Home Equity Line of Credit HELOC and our software. By using our software and your HELOC, you can see how much you should send to your mortgage and when, to save you the most amount of...
- Tags: Software, Streamline, Amortization, Mortgages, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Capital Structures, Management
- Software downloads 2008-08-18
- Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos
- Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos"Web 2.0" is Techno-HypeLike so many tech articles posted since Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2004, this one references "Web 2.0" as if it were something tangible--or at least a concept with clear, concise definition. It is not....
- Tags: Channel management, software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Web 2.0, Web, Intuit QuickBase
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- AutoEfile Professional Tax Preparation Software (exe)
- AutoEfile is tax preparation software for professionalsCPAs. AutoEfile has intuitive navigation and very simple to use. It is very easy to work with, as it follows standard windows navigation pattern. The program contains all required features like error reject codes, automatic error checking, bank products, history, and efile status view.Version...
- Tags: Software, Bank, AutoEfile, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.
- Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.Any company willing to put their accounting...records on the cloud has got to be plain stupid. It's a disaster waiting to happen.Intuit could port Quickbooks Enterprise client to Linux not just the server if they are looking to pick up...
- Tags: Taxes, Backups, Free trade, Financial services, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, Intuit Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidatesThis one gets me...[i]Will you seek to increase the H-1B cap so that employers can hire tech workers who are in low supply and high demand in the U.S.?[/i]Mr. Meltzer forgot a word [i]junior[/i], as in [i]junior tech workers[/i]. There is a shortage of...
- Tags: Strategy, Koman, H-1B, H-1B visa, tech worker, job, immigration system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones
- HSBC could order 200,000 iPhonesI see HSBCreceiving the really fantastic price they are looking for on the BlackberryHSBC Could Order 200,000 HTC Touch DiamondsReally, the title is simply not supported by the story.[i]We always explore the potential application of new technologies and this is no different....Hush said he did not...
- Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, HSBC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do
- SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we dowhat else could he say? but SAP is a BLACK HOLE!!but just ask some customers that have had to dump millions into high price patches, maintenance, resources... SAP sap your bank account and then some...SAP is the BLACK HOLE of technology!!!!!!!!!!!!;)"near freezing...
- Tags: Strategy, SAP AG, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- JDA acquires i2: Oh how the world has changed
- Catching up on other news, I see that i2, one of the dot bomb mavens has succumbed to acquisition pressure at a 12.5% premium to its share price. JDA is the lucky (or is it plucky?) acquirer of this once fascinating supply chain/demand planning provider, scooping up i2 for $346...
- Tags: I2 Technologies Inc., JDA, Maintenance Revenue, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Operational Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Is Google a media company?
- The New York Times recently wrote an article headlined: "Is Google a media company?" The article was mostly about Knol, Google's Wikipedia-like service, but it wondered if this meant Google was a media company because it owns content sites such as Knol, Blogger, and Youtube. ...
- Tags: Media Company, Google Inc., New York Times Co., GOOG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- T-Mobile may see the first Android device in September with 3G support too
- T-Mobile may see the first Android device in September with 3G support tooFingers crossedI hope they roll this out to South Florida. I have hated my cell service ever since ATT bought Cingular. I look forward to kicking them to the curb!A Slide Out QWERTY?Why not using touchscreen?RE:...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch screen, T-Mobile, 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
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