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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment After that she headed up project delivery for the bank's retail ecommerce business at the height of the dot com boom as well as a special project looking at the future of the financial services industry for the bank.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Sell Your Clients on Integrated Accounting Software

whitepaper Financial management and accounting are critical to the success of one's clients' business. As a result, small business owners have little time to devote the attention required to truly analyze their financial information to make smart business...

Tags: accounting applications

[13 May 2008]

Is Your WLAN Putting Your PCI Compliance at Risk?

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard was created in 2004 by major credit card companies - American Express, Discover Financial, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa International - to provide security and privacy of customers...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Prepare to Sell a Business

whitepaper As the controller, one will need not only to provide the critical financial information required during the courting process, but one may be asked also to lead discussions with a potential buyer, provide strategic advice to the management, or even...

Tags: business management

[13 May 2008]

Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News Speakers at the Financial Times Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference agreed that companies making a success of outsourcing no longer see low-cost labour as their main motivation. Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo With the financial backing of Nathan Myhrvold, he's the one who spearheaded the construction effort. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Choose the Appropriate Legal Structure for a New Business

whitepaper Creating a new business is an exciting undertaking for any personal financial advisor. One of the first tasks one will need to address is to determine the best legal structure for one's new business. Selecting the appropriate business structure...

Tags: business management

[12 May 2008]

Financial Report Writer Optimization for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.9 on the IBM System i Platform

whitepaper In response to requests to improve performance of custom Financial Report Writer (FRW) reports running on the IBM System i platform, a joint team of Oracle and IBM developers was formed to optimize the application.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Financial Institution Chooses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Improve Business Continuity

whitepaper Based in Zagreb, Raiffeisenbank Austria (RBA) strives to offer the widest range of financial products and services in Croatia. Challenged by recent expansion, the Bank's IT department wanted to reduce costs and better support the business with...

Tags: infrastructure management, virtualization, automated, host

[11 May 2008]

Financial Services Distributor Connects 2,500 Advisers With Easy-to-Use Portal Solution

whitepaper Openwork, based in the United Kingdom, is a stand-alone, multi-tied distribution network of approximately 2,500 financial advisers. It saves them considerable time and resources and helps ensure that advisers and Openwork remain fully compliant...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Financial Institution Gains a More Detailed Overview of IT Assets and Operational Costs

whitepaper Garanti Technology provides information technology services to Turkish financial institutions that are part of the DoguÂș Group conglomerate. Administrators wanted to be able to consolidate reports from MOM 2005 and SMS 2003 to conduct detailed...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Advantages of a Personal Workstation in Financial Services IT Environments

whitepaper Typical IT environments in financial institutions manage large volumes of high value transactions. IT managers are sometimes tempted to use low-cost PCs as a hardware platform for various financial applications, such as those found on the trading...

Tags: workstations

[11 May 2008]

IBM and Pragmatix Put Technology Infrastructure Out of Harm's Way for Financial Services Company

whitepaper Hurricane Katrina put a financial advisory firm in Louisiana on notice that it needed a more resilient technology infrastructure. Pragmatix, Inc.an IBM Business Partner based in Elmsford, New York, immediately understood what worried the managers...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Port of Corpus Christi Authority Accelerates and Simplifies Financial Operations With Rapid Upgrade

whitepaper The Port of Corpus Christi Authority wanted to improve operational efficiencies and gain added flexibility in financial and human resources applications and enhance accounting visibility and streamline reporting.

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Tibet Tianlu Achieves End-to-End Control of Financial and Human Resources Operations

whitepaper The Oracle system enabled Tibet Tianlu to improve financial management, cut month-end closing time, reduce payroll processing time by 60%, cut project evaluation and approval time by 40%, and increase inventory turnover by 25%.

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Eclipse Internet Improves Workforce Effectiveness by Automating Financial Processes

whitepaper Eclipse wanted to streamline billing and payments processes - safely manage a complex billing structure associated with various product offerings and enable transparency in financial processes to help the company drive further growth, including...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Mobile Solutions Provide "Anywhere, Anytime" Access to World Financial Markets

whitepaper Global financial service providers Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners are migrating to Windows Mobile and away from BlackBerry for new mobile applications because Windows Mobile enables them to build more powerful mobile solutions, deliver those...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[11 May 2008]

Cinepolis Integrates Financial Information Systems and Achieves Operational Efficiency in 188 Theaters

whitepaper Cinepolis wanted to integrate separate financial information systems to attain synergy among various business areas and centralize financial and accounting information to improve administration of the 188 theaters.

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

Nacional Monte de Piedad Consolidates Financial Information and Achieves Visibility Among Branches

whitepaper Monte de Piedad wanted to implement a financial system with a flexible IT infrastructure to make accounting information consistently visible among the different branches and company's departments and integrate financial information to accelerate...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Italian Institute for Foreign Trade Improves Business Processes With Integrated Financial Infrastructure

whitepaper ICE wanted to replace it's legacy financial applications with an integrated architecture to support expanding business requirements and resolve multicurrency issues related to ICE's international operations.

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

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