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whitepaper Nationwide Building Society wanted to leverage best-practice financial and purchasing management to gain real-time monitoring and control, and drive accountability as well as realize efficiencies by streamlining, standardizing, and automating key...
[14 May 2008]
Photo Silicon Valley is a society that drives with no rearview mirrors. For his next project, Swade says he plans on building Babbage's Analytical Engine.but this time, in a virtual space. A forward-thinking mathematician and engineer, Babbage designed...
[12 May 2008]
whitepaper Nationwide adopted a "scale-up" strategy for database servers and consolidated Microsoft SQL Server applications using ES7000 servers running Windows 2000 Datacenter Server in an EMC storage environment.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The Zeus MAS framework was critiqued by implementing an e-commerce agent society. Advances in agent technology depend on improving frameworks for building and supporting agent societies. While at least sixty different agent systems have been...
[10 Apr 2008]
Comment Changes in society brought about by technology always invoke challenges. The trick is to make change work for society and not against it. When they scan the building they can't see a TV set, so they conduct a search of the premises, and that's that.
[26 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Newcastle wanted to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of customers' financial information that is shared with third-parties such as solicitors, valuers, government agencies, and the judiciary and enforce audit trail for...
[24 Mar 2008]
News Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's banking platform as the foundation for its £300m Voyager business transformation project. Brumby explained that the new platform will allow the building society to develop new...
[18 Mar 2008]
Video silicon.com business editor Julian Goldsmith talks to Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts about his experiences when he came into the business to transform its systems. The company required what amounted to open-heart surgery, while...
[13 Mar 2008]
Comment It has to be, as he has been charged with a root-and-branch rip-and-replace project for the building society. Subsequently, he has had extensive experience with multi-channel retailing at Argos, Boots and travel company Gold Medal Travel, before...
[11 Mar 2008]
News Nottingham Building Society is about to begin final testing of a replacement core system for its loans business ahead of rollout over the next few months. The building society filed profits before tax of more than £8m in the 2007 financial year...
[11 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Derbyshire Building Society is a UK top 10 building society. It is one of the remaining truly mutual building societies; the company slogan is "Local Matters". Derbyshire's existing core customer administration system was approximately fifteen...
[24 Feb 2008]
News This contrasts sharply with punishment meted out to the Nationwide Building Society, which was fined £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority last year, over the theft of a company laptop containing confidential customer details from an...
[21 Feb 2008]
Photo The speakers included European commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding (far right). Just in case Barcelona's residents hadn't realised the mobile industry had come to town, building-sized ads broadcast its messages from on high.
[18 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Throughout its 150-year history, The West Brom has put its customers first. During the 1990s, however, the company had to overcome numerous challenges to continue fulfilling this commitment - challenges such as fragmented customer data...
[08 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The twin pressures of business growth and increasing competition meant that Coventry Building Society needed to adopt an innovative and cost-effective approach to investment in its contact centre and branch network.
[10 Jan 2008]
whitepaper The work discussed in this paper focuses on providing a first implementation of a simple, scalable infrastructure for building Discovery Services. The EPCglobal consortium defines standards to enable data sharing of electronic product code related...
[08 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Cisco Systems highlights how technology and the Internet are helping to build strong, productive and sustainable communities around the world, particularly in the areas of education and healthcare.
[07 Jan 2008]
whitepaper New regulations in the mortgage and insurance industries in the U.K.had a significant effect on Principality Building Society - the largest independent financial institution in Wales. Rather than simply ensuring compliance, the organisation seized...
[18 Dec 2007]
News Paul Davie, founder of Secerno, said: "Breaches such as the HMRC's loss of two discs affected 25 million people, while Leeds Building Society recently lost sensitive data relating to workers' payslips and this month, the DVLA compromised 6,000...
[17 Dec 2007]
News Newcastle Building Society is about to implement an anti-money-laundering (AML) system to comply with FSA regulations and ensure quality of service to third parties. The building society currently carries out transaction monitoring and exception...
[11 Dec 2007]
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