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HP Powers Financial Powerhouse: Raymond James Financial Experiences Growth, Agility Using Family of HP Servers: Founded in 1962, Raymond James Financial is now one of the largest financial services firms in the United States. At Raymond James Financial, IT has long played a critical role in the company's performance. Delivering solid financial advice to investors requires rapid access to the right information, from detailed market...; Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Raymond James Financial Inc., Financial Accounting, Servers, Utility Computing, Finance, Hardware; Case studies
Raymond James Financial Charts Course to 64-Bit Platform With Help From Symantec and HP: Raymond James, a diversified financial services firm, needed to carefully plan its migration to a next-generation computing platform. It worked with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to set up and perform a series of tests comparing the performance and load thresholds of 32- and 64-bit platforms. During the tests, VERITAS i3 software played...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Raymond James Financial Inc., 64-Bit, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking; Case studies
Global Financial Services Firm Improves Customer Service With Ease-of-Use Solution: Raymond James Financial is a global financial services firm with more than 4,600 Advisors. Because 80 percent of these Advisors are independent contractors who operate remotely, the company found it challenging to share business and customer information. Raymond James needed a customer relationship management solution that could support its remote...; Tags: Customer Service, Financial, Financial Service, Advisor, Raymond James Financial Inc., Microsoft Corp., CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Finance; Case studies

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HP's to-do list following EDS acquisition: We now know that HP is acquiring EDS in what appears to be an agreed bid that values EDS at $13.9 billion. Larry Dignan has the main analysis but it leaves open a series of testing questions for HP CEO Mark Hurd. As Larry points out: Overall, Wall Street...; Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Asset Management, Construction, It Services, It Operations, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-13
HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Can Hurd run EDS better?: Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs -- and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, IBM Corp., Non-GAAP Earning, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13

CO2 is increasing says US report, but GW doubters give raspberry: A new report based on data collected at the observatory on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, shows CO2 levels in the atmosphere are higher than they've been in a long time. How long? About 650-million years. Global warming researchers says CO2 is major greenhouse gas and contributes to warmer...; Tags: China, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Where is the money going in health care, and why?: I stumbled today upon an ADVANCE 2008 investment outlook for health care, and decided you might like me to hit some of the high points. The piece is written by James Brennan (right), managing director of VirtualCDO, a medical merger outfit whose Web page describes him as the...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Health Care, James Brennan, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Sprint's inferno: Churn baby churn: Sprint Nextel said Monday that it has lost more than 1 million customers in the last year. Sprint, which has been busy of late with a WiMax joint venture with Clearwire and alleged takeover overtures from Deutsche Telekom, provided a healthy dose of its financial reality with...; Tags: Financial, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
MobileTechRoundup show #133, REDFLY and Nokia N82 arrive, IdeaPad U110 is rocking: Listen here (MP3, 32.1 MB, 35:00 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link (RSS) James, Kevin, and I were up early Saturday morning to record MobileTechRoundup show #133 and as you may be able to...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Nokia Corp., James, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em off: Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em offuh huhDon't know about Canada. Here in Montana, two years ago it was -50 so they are dead...all of them. What wasn't mentioned here is that they are a constant thing, but if it gets below -40 they die. The more...; Tags: global warming, winter; Discussion threads 2008-05-10
Exploring Mars with Java: At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Friday, James Gosling, Sun Microsystems vice president and fellow, talks to Arizona State University geological sciences professor Phil Christensen about the school's geospatial software, JMARS. The open-source project is available to the public and used by NASA to find and gather scientific data...; Tags: Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mars, NASA, JMARS; Videos 2008-05-09
Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?: Mowser purchased by dotMobi; is there a need for a .mobi domain?.mobi is UsefulI like developed .mobi sites, and have a blog and showcase of .mobi sites at http://mobienthusiast.mobi. It's true that there are many mobile optimized .com sites, but I like the simplicity of being able to type in...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, DotMobi, mobi site, mobi, mobile, mobi domain, dotMobi, Visit BofA.mobi, domain; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta: First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 betaOLD NEWS: Don't expect OpenOffice to develop more perfect compatibilityI gave up on OpenOffice a long long time ago and I'm not surprised that the compatibility is still pitiful. OpenOffice's Presentation could never handle PowerPoint files properly. OpenOffice's Writer could handle simple documents,...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Health care debate is a neverending story: Health care debate is a neverending storySupply and demandOf course there's a way to balance the two. It's called the Market. Get third-party pay out of the equation, and demand and supply laws will come into effect.The reason demand is so high is because prices are artificially low. Whenever you...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?: Every technology company has three main constituencies: Employees, customers and shareholders. Does that last category overwhelm the first two? Should it? These questions are worth asking--at least when it comes to putting technology companies in context. Vinnie Mirchandani and I had this back and forth about Wall...; Tags: Shareholder, Technology Company, Wall, Vinnie, Construction, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Email To Background (exe): You just enter e-mail address to a one field form hit the button and get all the information you want including real address, phone number, age, real name, financial records, criminal, and government records. Only the best results. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Phone, Financial, Record, E-mail, Financial Accounting, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Finance; Software downloads 2008-05-09
Zip Background (exe): Enter the ZIP code and the first letter of last name of the person you are searching. Immediately get any background information including full address and phone, full financial records history, and full personal government records. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Financial Accounting, Telecom & Utilities, Finance; Software downloads 2008-05-09
ICS Free Financial Toolbar (exe): The ICS Free Financial Toolbar puts financial search, stock quotes, charts, SEC filings, stock news, and financial audio commentary at your fingertips! It installs in Microsoft Internet Explorer in seconds and includes a free popup blocker, Google and Yahoo Search engines. You'll have instant access to the finest charts and...; Tags: Financial, Stock, Ice Cold Stocks, ICS Free Financial Toolbar, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2008-05-09
Seeking the iPhone in Adobe's annual analyst briefings: Even if you're not an analyst, Adobe's 2008 financial briefings available online make interesting viewing, from its showcase of new AIR tools to the "soul" of Adobe, Google and Microsoft. And then there's the iPhone. The recordings cover the morning and afternoon sessions...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-08
KinetiCast - online presentation and promotional tracking: Update: KinetiCast can do PowerPoint imports. I was looking at the "preview" mode in the file sharing screen but when you create a presentation you can import slides from PowerPoint. With the meme about presentation tools and SlideShare yesterday I thought now was as good a time...; Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentation, KinetiCast, Presentation Creator, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-08

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Raymond James Financial Inc.: Raymond James Financial is a holding company whose subsidiaries are engaged in various financial services businesses, including the underwriting, distribution, trading and brokerage of equity...; Raymond James Financial Inc. company page on BNET »