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Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study As a result, the company must find other ways of maximising profit. We underwrite £1bn of premium: in a downturn it may be difficult to increase premiums, which means we needed more powerful modelling tools, so that we... [09 Oct 2008]
Jimmy Wales
AS Profile Or as one judge puts it: "For all its faults, the wiki idea has shown how groups of people can work together without knowing each other, without the need for meetings, without the need for interminable discussions back... [07 Oct 2008]
Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm
AS Profile The site, initially established in 2003, claims it is a not-for-profit group that does not store copyrighted material on any of its servers. Peter 'brokep' Sunde and Gottfrid 'anakata' Svartholm are two... [07 Oct 2008]
Mark Shuttleworth
AS Profile Along with his open source efforts, he runs a not-for-profit to promote education in South Africa and in 2002 became the first African in space. While Linux has met with success for servers, on the... [07 Oct 2008]
BAT lights up £26m SAP savings
News Since 2005, BAT - which made a £2.3bn profit last year - has consolidated its 62 SAP and Sage CS/3 ERP systems onto six regional SAP platforms. British American Tobacco (BAT) has saved millions of pounds... [02 Oct 2008]
Eliminate Spam, Gain Productivity
White Paper Understand how cybercriminals profit from their activities, how they are becoming more sophisticated, and why they are targeting their attacks more narrowly to the point that they are selecting specific... [01 Oct 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's tracking your online trail?
Comment Are internet users doing enough to protect their information online or are search engines and social networking sites lulling them into a false sense of security by failing to put privacy before profit? [01 Oct 2008]
Tesco online sales continue to grow
News Profit also rose for the online retail channel by 21 per cent to £48m in the same period. Grocery giant Tesco has reported strong sales for its food and non-food online arms in its latest half-year... [30 Sep 2008]
Exec shake-up in Yahoo!'s mobile world
News And it will be the phone group that's carries the profit burden, he added: the TV effort is still in an earlier development and distribution stage so far. Yahoo! is under financial... [30 Sep 2008]
Earning Greater Share as an Integrated Multi-Channel Retailer
White Paper This IBM-sponsored Retail Systems Research study shows how to profit from the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce and new consumer trends. E-commerce volume is expected to rise... [29 Sep 2008]
Editor's Blog: How a CIO can get noticed by the CEO
Comment David Butler from customer engagement company TripleIC also argues that customer churn is a biggie - "the profit killer of the 21st century" and something that CIOs are well placed to battle with. The... [23 Sep 2008]
Oracle reports strong Q1 profit growth
News Oracle reported improved quarterly profits Thursday, in part fuelled by sales of its Fusion middleware. Investors applauded Oracle's first-quarter performance, sending its stock up in after-hours trading to $19.2 per share. [19 Sep 2008]
Business Intelligence Solution Provider Expands Business Opportunities
White Paper Using Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 and Partner Program resources, Simpson expects to increase its performance management service capabilities, which will help the company keep existing customers, add new... [19 Sep 2008]
Business Intelligence Solution Provider Expands Business Opportunities
Using Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 and Partner Program resources, Simpson expects to increase its performance management service capabilities, which will help the company keep existing customers, add new... [19 Sep 2008]
Understanding Your Customer: Segmentation Techniques for Gaining Customer Insight and Predicting Risk in the Telecom Industry
White Paper These customers pose different risks, making it imperative to implement different treatment strategies to maximize shareholder profit and improve revenue generation. The explosion of customer data in the... [19 Sep 2008]
