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- Merrill Lynch Revamps Customer Statements With HP Exstream Software
- Merrill Lynch financial advisors can offer clients a broad range of diversified financial solutions. Listening to feedback from clients, the Merrill Lynch marketing department recognized the value in creating a consolidated "Relationship Statement," with the ultimate goal of demonstrating what is possible from a client relationship with Merrill Lynch. Merrill...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Exstream Software Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut'
- All five investment banks that existed a year ago are gone. These are firms which put their own capital and the capital of big institutional and individual investors at risk, to merge or acquire companies. And were supposed to be experts at...
- Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Mortgages, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Merrill Lynch downgrades SAP and Oracle
- It should come as no surprise that investment research at Merrill Lynch sees downgraded assessments of both SAP and Oracle's near terms results. In the last month, Merrill has conducted research among European CIO's and finds that a full 40% are less bullish on IT spending than they were three...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...
- Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Service, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Hardware, Investment, IPO, Larry Dignan, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Morgan Stanley, Storage, Wall Street
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computingThis guy has been drinking too much clould computing Kool AidPutting your fate in someone else's hands is simply not a good idea. You may get away with doing so once or twice, but eventually you will get bitten very badly. As for...
- Tags: Corporate communications, NOW HERE, stateless computing, LinuxWorld, computing, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce complexities and costs in financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why ideas old like virtualization have become useful again. by...
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Video, Computing, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Corporate Communications, Financial Planning, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Financial Services, Hardware, Marketing, Finance, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- LinuxWorld: Merrill Lynch on going stateless
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce the complexities and costs of financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why old ideas like virtualization have become useful again.
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Virtualization, Financial Planning, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Financial Services, Hardware, Finance, Storage, Computing, stateless, cloud computing
- Videos 2008-08-05
- CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants out
- CIOs expect their IT spending to be up 2.3 percent in 2008, but PC upgrades, outsourcing and consultants are viewed as the most discretionary items in budgets, according to a survey by Merrill Lynch. Virtualization, storage and labor are among the least likely items to be cut. ...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, CIO, Staffing, PC, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Merrill Lynch Creates Development Framework for Increased Productivity
- Merrill Lynch wanted to better support its application life cycle management to increase developer productivity. It created a process framework using tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and WiX to automate processes and make it possible for developers to use their choice of methodologies. With the new framework,...
- Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp., Framework, Microsoft Development Tools, Productivity, Strategy, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Nine places where SOA is making a difference, right now
- What kind of a year was 2007 for SOA? Yes, there was plenty of disgust and eye-rolling at all the hype around this still-emerging concept. But at the same time, we started seeing more and more examples of companies putting the methodologies and associated tools and platforms to innovative uses....
- Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Comcast Corp., SOA, Portal, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is important
- Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is importantBloombergBased on what I heard at the Salesforce.com event on Tuesday, I don't think that the company is going on a frontal assault on Bloomberg. It appears that there are plenty of opportunites with 3.8mn Internet savvy financial advisors. Brokers and traders...
- Tags: Sales force management, Bloomberg L.P., Salesforce.com Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is important
- Salesforce.com announced its big enterprise customer--Merrill Lynch--and the news was anticlimactic (everyone knew what was going to happen already.) While the announcement that Salesforce.com is trying to take on Bloomberg and is rolling out large installations isnt a barnburner...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Software Infrastructure, SaaS, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Vista could be a boon for Citrix
- Vistas hardware requirements got you down? Merrill Lynch is betting that youll call Citrix. In a Dec. 5 research note, Merrill said thin-client software companies like Citrix are likely to benefit over the Vista upgrade cycle."We believe Microsoft’s Vista product cycle could drive incremental demand for Citrix’ core Presentation Server...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Citrix Systems Inc., Vista, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Merrill Lynch bullish on Google growth
- Merrill Lynch bullish on Google growthML has a need here...ML needs to manufacture something to ride...it might as well be GOOG, since the outlook for that is more nebulous than other stocks, which have more easily-predicted futures. Isn't that similar to Enron...when the business plan and source of revenues...
- Tags: Goog, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
- Google says it will run out of people
- According to the latest report from Merrill Lynch, authored by Lauren Fine, GOOG CFO George Reyes spoke at the Merrill Lynch investor conference and said: "importantly, for the first time, Reyes did say that the law of large numbers will likely start to come into play."If you are wondering what...
- Tags: Goog, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- Internet industry IT spending to grow 42% in 2005
- Merrill Lynch expects further escalation of Internet technology competition in 2006 to $2.7 bln up from $1.9 bln in 2005. Industry spending on technology will increase 42% YTY, outpacing revenue growth of 29%.
- Tags: Internet, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- B2B e-commerce to grow 20% in Q3 2005
- Merrill Lynch expects business operations on the Web to tally a 20% increase in e-commerce and 14% rise in online travel bookings growth from Q2 2005. The total US commerce and travel spending is expected to be up 6-8% and 4-5% respectively.
- Tags: B2B e-commerce, B2B, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-07-17
- Merrill Lynch predicts offshoring growth
- Merrill Lynch predicts offshoring growthOh yeah ML should know better....I used to work there and they took the idea of offshoring to the extreme: you have to call somebody in India in order to make changes to the database, since they laid off all those "high-priced" domestic DBAs. Way to...
- Tags: Benefits, Vertical industries, offshoring growth, health care, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., real estate, salary, Healthcare Cost
- Discussion threads 2005-04-05
- Cisco wins back Merrill Lynch
- Cisco wins back Merrill LynchAnalysts appraisalAre analysts expectations for company earnings no more than a weather forecast? So if an analyst guesses wrong, then its' the company's fault. Or are we to pretend an analyst hasn't got inside information? In which case they're doubly fooling the public. If an analyst...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-02-09
- Google crosses off Merrill Lynch
- Google crosses off Merrill LynchGoogle Pizza?With all the trouble that Google is in with spyware software programs and all the lawsuits, maybe they should look in to using the IPO proceeds to start a Pizza business.GooglePizza.com sounds good to me, I can see Larry and Sergey on TV right now...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Overture Services Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-06-21
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