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Case Study Berman said: "One of the things we've found in the past with proprietary systems is our market moves faster than the vendors often are prepared to move at, and we wanted the flexibility to be able to add additional metadata or classifications as... [20 Mar 2008]
Scottish Re evaluates risky data
Case Study The insurance market can hold an element of risk if a policy has a high value or is subject to unpredictable conditions. Reinsurer Scottish Re Group has introduced an electronic data interchange (EDI) system for its customers to help the company... [04 Feb 2008]
Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition
Case Study When they entered the market, established brands had already proved that price comparison services in the financial sector were viable - so Paleomylites and his team looked for a way to compete. Up until this year, beatthatQuote.com has spent a... [29 Jan 2008]
Betbrokers fancies Sapphire's form
Case Study The company's primary channel to market is through the phone but it also has a website. Because the company was effectively creating a new market, the availability of ready-made packages was limited. Smaller value trades will open up a huge new... [19 Sep 2007]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study He said: "I was disappointed with the market. The technology did not present any problems at implementation but Baron said the change of mindset was one of the biggest challenges of the project, with some departments unwilling to share their data. [06 Aug 2007]
Virtualisation powers up energy group
Case Study He added: "That will give us the flexibility to get applications to market a lot quicker. Since the move to virtualisation, E.ON is using 56 per cent less power and has reduced the amount of heat pouring out from its data centres by more than half. [23 Apr 2007]
Deutsche Bank looks to Russia for 'Six Degrees' of CRM
Case Study As a result of the success of the project, Deutsche Bank has now extended its relationship with Luxoft and the two companies will work together to further develop the Client First CRM system and market it to other organisations worldwide. [16 Mar 2007]
Putting pensions online - a tricky business?
Case Study As the first online Sipp offering, "no one was really sure of exactly the direction it would go and where it would take us so having a systems network that could adapt to how the market responded was crucial", Coulson added.silicon.com Financial... [07 Feb 2007]
Finance company finds way though Basel II maze
Case Study As well as complying with the Basel II Capital Accord - which requires the tracking and reporting of ongoing exposure to credit, market and operational risks - M&S Money wanted to improve customer data accuracy which would then improve the quality... [09 Aug 2006]
How Aviva bet big on India
Case Study He said Aviva's brands must be competitive in a UK market driven by service levels and that quality is key. According to Egan, they now work in a more "data rational and analytical space" than they were previously. [18 Oct 2005]
Bank replaces desktops with PC blades
Case Study The PCs were getting on for five or six years old and we were on or below minimum spec for some of our third-party applications including key market data products. When Anglo-Dutch private banking group Insinger De Beaufort moved offices it also... [30 Jun 2005]
Fashion giant improves business reporting
Case Study One reason for the huge number of reports was that the different brands in Arcadia group sometime compete in the same market so couldn't be allowed access to each other's data. We decided to go back to the market and look at some other contenders... [29 Jun 2005]
Sainsbury's scrutinises buying habits to woo customers
Case Study Sainsbury's, which has around 16 per cent of the UK's £110bn grocery market, has been steadily losing market share to competitors Tesco and Asda, a Wal-Mart-owned business that knocked Sainsbury's out of the number-two position in 2003 and hasn't... [24 Jun 2005]
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