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- Flexible Gateway for Managing Relationships With Financial Intermediaries
- In the UK, Prudential is a leading life and pensions provider with around seven million customers. The company wanted to overcome stovepipes of information and integrate various legacy information sources. The challenge was to make it easier for financial advisers to do business with Prudential UK, also to reduce cost,...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Gateway Inc., Financial, Prudential Insurance Company Of America, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Buying StorageTek: Sun's last big gamble?
- Buying StorageTek: Sun's last big gamble?Fear of Windows Server caused this...My rep and I were chatting over lunch today and we both came up with the same idea. That this silly purchase was done as a direct response to the tremendous growth of Windows Server 2003 in the enterprise. Sun...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Storage, Storage management, Investment, utility computing, Prudential Insurance Company of America, Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek
- Discussion threads 2005-06-02
- Wipro Case Study: Prudential plc
- Prudential, a financial services company faced the challenge was to realign product centric systems and create a customer-centric platform across the organization. The solution was One Customer Database OCDB, a central repository of customer, product holding, address details and data protection information for sales, marketing and customer service. The OCDB...
- Tags: Customer Service, Wipro Technologies, Prudential Insurance Company Of America, OCDB, Product Marketing, Disaster Recovery, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Backups, Marketing, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Case studies
- Prudential Northwest Properties: A Case Study
- Prudential Northwest properties sought a solution that was feature-rich, based on open standards, and could scale easily for future growth. Today, a SIP-based VCX V7000 IP Telephony solution from 3Com keeps Prudential Northwest's 750 real estate agents in constant contact with buyers, sellers, mortgage brokers, and each other. Using IP...
- Tags: Phone, Prudential Insurance Company Of America, Real Estate, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telecom & Utilities, PDAs, VOIP, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Handhelds, Hardware, Networking
- Case studies
- Enterprise Case Study: Prudential Learning Zones
- The Prudential group is one of the UK's largest financial services providers with over 150 years in the Independent Financial Adviser IFA marketplace. Prudential's commitment to their shareholders who own Prudential is to maximise the value over time of their investment. Prudential aims to do this by investing for the...
- Tags: Prudential Insurance Company Of America, E-learning, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies
- VMware Insures Improved Customer Service for Prudential
- Prudential UK is part of the Prudential group and provides a range of financial products and services including annuities, corporate and individual pensions, savings and investment products to around seven million customers. In 2002 the company decided to establish an off-shore service centre in India to improve customer service levels...
- Tags: Customer Service, Prudential Insurance Company Of America, VMware Inc., Prudential UK, Remote Access, Insurance, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Product Marketing, Financial Planning, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Storage, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Hardware, Servers, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Proving e-Learning's Worth in Delivering Cost-Effective Training to 8,000 Staff at Prudential
- Prudential needed to find the most efficient, effective and consistent way of reaching a geographically diverse audience - and needed to do it quickly. Prudential gravitated towards established e-Learning providers, on the basis that as well as being robust and reliable, e-Learning providers would be able to share past experiences...
- Tags: Prudential Insurance Company Of America, Training, SkillSoft, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Case Study: Tangram Ensures Prudential's IT Assets
- Keeping track of thousands of computers and multiple IT systems was not a high priority at the Prudential Insurance Company of America in the mid-1990s. The inventories of computer equipment and software were "Managed manually, if at all." The company made no great push to restore order to the relative...
- Tags: Asset, Prudential Insurance Company Of America, Information Technology, Jupitermedia Corp., Computer, Asset Management, Y2K, Productivity, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Real Estate Firm Recruits More Clients, Improves Service With Mobile Office Solution
- Although Prudential California Realty - San Bruno is the most successful Prudential single office franchise in North America, management wanted to improve agents' productivity on the road through a mobile computing solution that would eliminate paper and reduce trips back to the office. The franchise deployed Criterion Corporation's REDTablet solution,...
- Tags: Solution, Mobile, Prudential Insurance Company Of America, Microsoft Office, Mobile Computing, Microsoft Corp., Real Estate, Tablets, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows XP, Handhelds, Wireless, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins
- The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Pepsi Bottling makes big green tech recycling commitment
- Mammoth beverage manufacturer Pepsi Bottling is turning to Redemtech to develop a strategy in the United States and Canada for handling its e-waste, either through recycling or reuse. Under the deal, Redemtech has been tasked with the following: - Dispose of electronic assets. For perspective,...
- Tags: Green Technology, PepsiCo, E-waste, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gateway stops selling PCs direct
- Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?
- AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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