financial
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment Also, because of their superior financial performance over the years, these companies are now saddled with high growth and margin expectations each quarter. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash - so why aren't they... [06 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News While the debate over bankers' bonuses may still be generating headlines, it seems the financial services industry has found one way to cut back - slash IT budgets. Financial services firms' IT budgets... [04 Nov 2009]
Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News The scammer will typically target the people who handle financial transactions in a company, sending them emails containing a link that, when clicked on, causes key-logging malware to be installed on their computer. [04 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Under the scheme, organisations which use more than roughly £500,000 of electricity per year (including hotel chains, large local authorities and supermarket chains) will have to purchase allowances equivalent to their carbon emissions... [29 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Google's revenues of $4.38bn for the latest financial quarter mean that Mountain View can afford to - as Rasmussen puts it - "not worry about how to monetise products so early on". It may have only been launched a few... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Users can view extensive coverage of the financial markets, from deals and merger news to global indices data, and set up a personalised watch list to monitor stocks and companies. Users can view customised... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News However, Vincent said that getting the old messages into Google Mail had proved "complex", something Google hopes to address with the release of new tools for migrating data from Microsoft Exchange this financial quarter. [26 Oct 2009]
Barclays CIO finds a new home with SAP
News Trotta has been appointed the ERP company's SVP and global head of financial services, responsible for product strategy, development and overall market positioning activities in the banking and insurance industries... [22 Oct 2009]
Total Economic Impact Of SQL Server 2008 Upgrade
White Paper The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact on their organization of upgrading from a previous version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008. [21 Oct 2009]
Undressing In Public: Harnessing The Power Of Web 2.0 To Rebuild Trust In Banking
White Paper In a time of global financial turmoil, banks intent upon reconnecting with an increasingly diverse, fragmented and suspicious customer base should "Bare all" and use the varied and powerful tools of Web 2.0 at their... [21 Oct 2009]
Panic slowly. Integrated disaster response and built-in business continuity
White Paper This paper offers insight to the CIO who is facing increased responsibility for the business and financial consequences of systems downtime. IBM's point of view paper helps CIOs and IT professionals assess their... [21 Oct 2009]
IT Professional's Guide to Budgeting and Cost Control
White Paper Though not everyone is born a financial whiz, you can learn to stretch your dollars and find out how other IT pros have saved money for their organizations without sacrificing quality and security. Are you facing the... [19 Oct 2009]
Green Billing
White Paper By combining environmental and financial information, "green billing" helps customers understand the long-term environmental effects of their personal energy and water use. Billing has always been a mission-critical... [19 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News In the early days a lot of the scareware was a smokescreen for a lot of phishing information - spyware that would look for your financial details - today they're really just designed to get that £15, £20, £30 out of you. [19 Oct 2009]
Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services
White Paper Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage. [15 Oct 2009]