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Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment It's not rocking the banking fraternity or the insurance industry, for instance. And even the public sector punches above its weight, thanks largely to the self-promoting antics of politicians - those... [16 Nov 2009]
No more tax breaks for offshoring?
Comment From 1 January 2010, for the first time business customers will have to account for the reverse charge to VAT on the costs of these services (unless they qualify for exemption in their own right as financial or insurance... [11 Nov 2009]
Data Protection Risks and How to Avoid Them
White Paper The attendee will hear about how organizations in the insurance, financial services and retail sector have turned to an innovative form of end-to-end encryption that enables them to rapidly and at low... [02 Oct 2009]
Best Practices for Leveraging Business Analytics in Today's and Tomorrow's Insurance Sector
White Paper The use of business analytics continues to permeate the insurance marketplace. New tool capabilities, new business models and new data sources are constantly emerging. The successful organizations will be those that... [02 Sep 2009]
Shenyang Healthcare Funding Management Center Ensures Accurate Distribution of Healthcare Funds
White Paper The Shenyang Healthcare Funding Management Center engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Neusoft to build a business intelligence system using Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition, the first adoption of the solution... [30 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment India's proposed unique identification is along the lines of the American social security number or the British national insurance number. Nilekani's crossing to the public sector has put the spotlight... [27 Jul 2009]
IT grads worst hit by recession
News IT jobs comprised just 1.1 per cent of the vacancies offered, according to the report, with only insurance having fewer slots available. While graduate jobs are thinner on the ground than last year in the vast majority... [06 Jul 2009]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile He has also worked in various different industries during a 20-year IT career, including insurance (Friends Provident), transport (British Airways), FMCG (Pepsi) and retail (Safeway Stores). Tony Mather is CIO of the... [03 Jun 2009]
Software Security Total Risk Management: Security Innovation's Blueprint for Effective Program Development
White Paper Current challenges of the financial services sector aside, risk management has a long and venerable tradition of practical success in the world of insurance premiums and credit card interest rates. In... [01 May 2009]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Saves With Hosted Human Resources Solution
White Paper Blue Cross Blue Shield wanted to enhance productivity across the company's human resources functions, supporting the need for greater operational efficiency in the cost-conscious health insurance sector... [30 Apr 2009]
Crunch bunch can't get enough of cheap BPO
News North America and the UK have shown the strongest growth for Indian BPO, according to Gartner, which found the telecommunications, manufacturing, insurance and banking sectors among the keenest users of Indian BPO, with... [21 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.04.09
Round-Up Thea is a 32-year-old former BPM software saleswomen who used to sell risk management and quality management software packages to the financial and insurance sectors. Given the state of the financial... [17 Apr 2009]
Netbooks and recession-busting tech headline at CeBit
News Another key theme is e-health, where technology is used to monitor patients at home, to create networks among hospitals or to digitise patient data aimed at cutting soaring health insurance costs. The high-tech... [02 Mar 2009]
Green-lighted drivers pay less to drive
News Young drivers in Staffordshire will have their driving assessed by an in-car computer to earn discounts on their insurance. Each month drivers will be able to get up to 10 per cent of their insurance... [10 Feb 2009]
Five alternative careers for IT pros
Comment Technology insurance underwriter Gaining experience as an underwriter can be an excellent springboard to a technology insurance broker role - a career with considerably greater income potential. In this... [03 Feb 2009]
