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Online Retail Mortgage Lender Supports Massive Growth and Delivers Optimal Customer Service With the Help of AMD Technology

As a growing online retail mortgage lender in the United States, Quicken Loans is well-known for exceptional customer service. This reputation is supported by quality employees and a superior IT infrastructure. But the company's success was beginning to tax its datacenter in terms of space, costs, performance, and power and...

Tags: Online Retail, Customer Service, Quicken, Mortgage Company, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Product Marketing, Data Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Processors, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Semiconductors, Components

Case studies 2007-09-05

Mortgage Lender Pro 2.3 (Mac)

Mortgage Lender Pro was designed to automate the processes for managing residential loans. The system handles loan processing from the 1003 origination through the 1008.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mortgage Company, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-10-26

Mortgage Firm Expands Network While Reducing Administrative Effort and Costs

Although the United States economy as a whole stumbled in the early part of the new millennium, the mortgage business thrived due to extraordinarily low mortgage rates. WestAmerica Mortgage Company has ridden that boom to record growth and revenues. But fast expansion caused WestAmerica Mortgage to quadruple the size of...

Tags: Network, Information Technology, Microsoft Operations Manager, Mortgage Company, Microsoft Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

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Remend Brings Web-Based Automation and Collaboration to Mortgage Servicing

Despite many dramatic changes in the mortgage industry - more loan types and funding sources, increased regulation and an influx of higher-risk borrowers - most mortgage lenders and servicers still use IT systems designed for a much simpler lending environment. This often results in inefficient internal processes with limited reporting...

Tags: Web, Mortgage Company, Microsoft Corp., Borrower, Automation, Remend OnDemand Software, Mortgages, Collaboration, Groupware, Finance, Capital Structures, Enterprise Software, Software

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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

Banks and auto sector got bailed out, are telecom providers next?

I kid you not :)Pensions got killed in the bailouts of the banks, except those that got insurance from AIG that bet against all the shenigans of Wall St. But sure enough AIG flops because it can't cover all the insurance bets it made on the mortgage backed certificates floated...

Tags: Telephony, Financial Planning, Benefits, Telecom & Utilities, Personal finance, payroll solutions, American International Group Inc., insurance, telecommunications, Wall St., bank

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues

But hey, don't worry... TD's got you covered.As reported in the local news last night, a woman who went to withdraw money from her account to pay her rent found that the ATM would not let her. So after discussing the situation with TD bank employees at her branch,...

Tags: Financial services, information technology, Regis, TD Bank, bank, IT system consolidation

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Short Sale Commander 1.5 (Windows)

Short Sale Commander is an easy-to-use Web-based platform designed specifically for processing short sales from start to finish. The software allows loss mitigators, real estate agents, mortgage brokers, attorneys, title company professionals and even investors to share information in a streamlined paperless system. From new leads to pipeline reporting, lender...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, ELK Software, Real Estate, Sales Strategy, Business Intelligence, Free Trade, Business Operations, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance

Software downloads 2009-09-29

New York Times memo: We're "not a newspaper company"

Adding my opinion."Finally, our most valuable news organization gets it. This is very encouraging for the future of quality journalism, imho."I neither believe it's our most valuable nor it is quality, imho.If they are just now figuring this out, it might be too little-too late for them. They cannot...

Tags: INTERNET, MSM, quality journalism, New York Times Co.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisition

I smell M$ hereWho is most interested in this deal not completing...M$!The price was more than fair, only some shareholders that were promissed more ca$h by M$ could have come with this frivolous lawsuit.RE: On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisitionNovember 6, 2008 - 5:00 PM EasternThird Quarter 2008 Results...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, acquisition, Joe, stock, On2 Technologies, stock market, Master Corp., shareholder, On2 shareholder, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

Who cares?'m tired of this struggle for capitalism, I'm off to Galt's Gulch.Wah, wah, wah!Americans like Franklin, Westinghouse, Whitny, Kilby, didn't need fake "incentives"!Massengill Satchel"I don?t want to come across as a crying venture capitalist " but..............Sickening. Self-centered VC story. Complaining about access to talent, h1b's etc. No mention of...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Regulations, innovation, H1B, government

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Apple iPhone margins nearly 60%, analyst estimates

Apple 2.0 blogger Philip Elmer-DeWitt always has his ear tuned to Wall Street, and today he highlights that unemployed mortgage broker analyst Turley Muller says Wall Street deeply underestimates how much of an effect the iPhone has on Apple's bottom line. On his...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Margin, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, GAAP, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Financial Accounting, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad idea

Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad ideaYou're very forgivingIf they can remove the feature, what stops them from putting it back?What will stop them from violating the terms and conditions? Companies have done it before and will continue to do it.No Kindles for us...Well, that does it for...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Government, Taxes, Free trade, Amazon.com Inc., big business, tax, property right, illusion, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-07-18

Microsoft to integrate Twitter into its CRM

Microsoft to integrate Twitter into its CRM I don't like Microsoft's new direction.I remember when data security and privacy meant something. Are people forgetting the lessons of the past? Is everyone jumping on the trust-the-big-guys wagon? Privacy and security are PARAMOUNT!There is too much temptation for MS...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Twitter, open source, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

NetApp, Data Domain merger nixed; EMC wins with $2.1 billion bid

NetApp couldn't outbid EMC for Data Domain. The company said Wednesday that it wouldn't up its offer for Data Domain and a proposed merger agreement was terminated. EMC will now acquire Data Domain for $33.50 a share in cash. On Monday, EMC offered $2.1 billion for Data...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Merger, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Why Windows 7 should be free

Why Windows 7 should be freeAm I the only one who had zero problems with Vista?This issue has been debated thoroughly across zdnet, so I have no desire to rehash it. But I am still not convinced that Vista's problems are systemic...and I think they are more a PR issue....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?audit no auditFrom a technical direction I have almost 30 years experience with computers and software and over the past 8 years or so I have often seen auditors such as KPMG/PWC and alike audit a bank, insurance, payment type companies and...

Tags: Financial accounting, Taxes, Personal finance, Operational accounting, Financial services, audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, tax shelter, tax, accounting company

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phone

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phoneIRSMore money to spread around.. GREAT WORK IRS..Another fine example of no new taxes for people under $250,000. YEA, what I thought and can you say " I TOLD YOU SO"..You asked for it you got it...In the UKHMRC do consider a work provided...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Tax Code, tax, Internal Revenue Service, phone, mobile phone, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Major Online Lender Uses Infrastructure Optimization to Help Manage Growth, Profits

Quicken Loans, the top online mortgage lender, needed to know if its core technology infrastructure was optimized to support its business and its rapid growth. To do so, it turned to BT, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, for a Core Infrastructure Optimization IO assessment based on the Microsoft IO maturity...

Tags: Optimization, Quicken, British Telecommunications, Microsoft Corp., Quicken Loans, It Services, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Doctor Oz takes a risk

Doctor Oz takes a riskit's called Face ValidityHe is basically using his name to give this product credibility. Everyone should realize that although he is an MD, he is a surgeon, a specialty that is not well versed in medications. So yes, he is pulling a Linus Pauling....

Tags: RealAge, risk

Discussion threads 2009-05-14