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Vital Adopts TIBCO BPM Software to Improve Efficiency and Productivity

Vital Forsikring ASA is the second largest life and pensions provider in Norway and part of DnB Group - the largest financial organization in the country. Vital wanted to use workflow technology as a solution to paper to ensure that its business processes were quicker and more cost-efficient. The company's...

Tags: Software, TIBCO Software Inc., Vital Forsikring ASA, Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance

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Vital Forsikring ASA - Customer Service Comes First

Vital Forsikring ASA is the largest privately owned life and pension fund insurance company in Norway. When the IT Organization of Vital Forsikring ASA was looking for a management platform for its systems, applications, databases and networks, Oslo Brs Stock Exchange offered to host an HP OpenView reference site visit....

Tags: Customer Service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Vital Forsikring ASA, Strategy, ITIL, Utility Computing, It Management, Management, It Services, It service Management

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Pension Insurance Provider Boosts Worker Productivity, Improves Customer Service

New pension laws in Norway provided an opportunity for Vital Forsikring ASA, a life and pension insurance company, to boost the number of subscribers to its products. But after several mergers, Vital found itself with a myriad of mainframe systems running different applications. The company decided to build a new...

Tags: Customer Service, Insurance Company, Microsoft Corp., Worker, Vital Forsikring ASA, Mainframes, Insurance, Product Marketing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Portals, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Web Services, Servers, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet

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Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel

The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code. Oracle has announced that it has contributed data-integrity code to the Linux kernel. The open-source code, which has been accepted into the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, is designed to reduce data corruption...

Tags: Data Integrity, Oracle Corp., Emulex Corp., Linux, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Oracle, Emulex, Linux kernel, code, open source, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03

Opting out of IT

Opting out of ITThis is where the next generation apps come into play..They'll be web based. They'll do pretty much what the business wants out of the box and can be tailored for anonmolies, they will have been jointly developed by other companies doing roughly the same business things.It's happening...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Web Based App, IT IS, Murph, Opting-Out, business thing, Microsoft Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study

The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...

Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-02

Google outlines plan for extensions in Chrome

Google outlines plan for extensions in ChromeYou are on target, GarettI would enjoy using Chrome if it were not for the features it lacks:☻ It lacks common user controls☻ It lacks needed functionalities (like ad-blocking, JavaScript controls, cross-site scripting controls, etc.)☻ It lacks Bookmark management ([i]including[/i] Sort features)☻ It lacks...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

NASA and DoE team on dark energy research

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy DoE have teamed up to operate the future Joint Dark Energy Mission JDEM. As you probably know, recent astronomical measurements have showed that about 72% of the total energy in the universe is dark energy, even if scientists don't know much about it,...

Tags: Team, Universe, NASA, Energy, WMAP, WMAP Data, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Web Site Development, Team Management, Network Technology, Finance, Internet, Management, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-11-27

Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK

Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UKGood.Some corporations need a thorough cleaning to get rid of nonsense such as this.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAI love that video... I wonder how fast the iPhone could be on Verizon? AT&T is known to all of us in the real world as the absolutely...

Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., deceptive television ad, television ad, TV

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK

Remember the kerfuffle over Apple's "3G" television ad for the iPhone? In it the company demonstrates the speed of the iPhone on AT&T's 3G network. As it turns out the ad was edited to exaggerate the speed of the iPhone 3G and the speed shown is impossible to replicate in...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Apple Inc., TV, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-26

AppAsure: Good stuff but is it virtualization?

Naj Husain, CEO, and Dan Soschin, Director of Marketing, both of AppAssure, brought me up to speed on Replay VRA, a tool that protects messaging-based environments that include BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as Microsoft's Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint. While Reply VRA appears to work in virtualized environments and...

Tags: Environment, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Is Command & Control Management Inefficient?

When most people think of how businesses are organized, they visualize command and control management: the pine tree visual with the leaders at the top. Since we are entering the Western festive season here are some appropriate images to illustrate this. The traditional 'Christmas Tree'...

Tags: Fractal, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-24

On a personal note

On a personal noteCongratulations! nt.How do computers and the Internet work?What is the copyright law for downloading?What are the record companies agreements for downloading music?What are the Government laws governing the Internet function and privacy?What are AT&T's laws for using the Internet?How do I start an ISP or a web...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), personal note, Congratulations!, car

Discussion threads 2008-11-22

Pop-up ads on LinkedIn? How very MySpace

Pop-up ads on LinkedIn? How very MySpaceLove the offer, hate popups with a passionWhat a way to spoil an otherwise brilliant campaign! I actually responded to the BR campaign a few weeks ago. I was updating my blog address on my profile and noticed the tastefully designed ad on the...

Tags: LinkedIn, advertisement, pop-up ad, MySpace

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Metrics of open source success

There is such a thing as enough money. And there are other drives, equally vital, that open source can satisfy. Some are drives felt keenly by people with lots of money, while with others money is irrelevant. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Money, Matt Asay, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-11-21

A guide to cutting IT costs

Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...

Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com

News items 2008-11-21

Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?

Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?BullI see way too many students at my university doing nothing but spending time on the "new media". Most of them are like crack whores. It's their whole world and nothing else matters. Oh, yeah, most of them seem to flunk out in...

Tags: Go-ahead, MySpace

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Can Microsoft Surface scare patients to health?

Can Microsoft Surface scare patients to health?MEDICAL RECORDSAlex Papas the creator and the developer of the prepaid phone card in the United States. I have just created a new medical breakthrough called The MedeFile Card. The MedeFile Card is a centralized, confidential electronic portfolio that gives you 24/7 access to...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Corp., MedeFile Card, Microsoft Surface, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2008-11-20