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Will consumers always want free banking?

Comment They expect to make a profit on interest rate margins and cross-selling of other products such as loans and insurance. This ruling will mean banks have to find more subtle ways to profit from their customers, argues Carol Wheatcroft.

Tags: oft, free banking

[12 May 2008]

Erlanger Boosts Back Office Functionality for Improved Patient Care

whitepaper Erlanger Health System is a public non-profit, academic teaching five-hospital system affiliated with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Erlanger Health System wanted to manage a complex supply chain while delivering a spectrum of...

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

American Crystal Sugar Company Upgrades Management System to Minimize Costs

whitepaper The company wanted to maximize shareholder profit and control variable costs, such as overtime. American Crystal Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative that specializes in sugar and sugar-based products and byproducts.

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response

whitepaper Motivations of such attacks range from technical challenge (e.g.script kiddies) to financial profit (e.g.blackmailing the web server's owner). High-profile web servers often become the victim of web server overload Distributed Denial-of-Service...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Microsoft Sharpens Its Forecasting With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

whitepaper Microsoft produces a financial performance forecast nine times a year, with three quarterly forecasts looking at revenue and profit/loss, and the rest focusing only on revenue. This requires Microsoft's corporate office to consolidate each month...

Tags: application servers

[06 May 2008]

Sun Helps Keep Datacenters Cool, Efficient and Reliable for Fast-Growing Nevada Utility

whitepaper The Las Vegas Valley Water District is a not-for-profit agency that provides water to Las Vegas and nearby communities. The company's challenge was to replicate production database for use by multiple development groups to improve storage...

Tags: database management

[05 May 2008]

World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid

whitepaper The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to deciphering and analyzing genomes - the complex molecular chains that constitute each organism's unique genetic heritage.

Tags: application servers

[05 May 2008]

Teaching Hospital Uses Unified Intelligence System, Improves Education and Patient Care

whitepaper Washington Hospital Center, the flagship teaching institution of the non-profit MedStar Health organization, is the largest hospital in Washington, D.C. For 50 years, Washington Hospital Center has supported accredited residency and fellowship...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

Energizer Taps Into the Power of Microsoft Business Intelligence With Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

whitepaper Disparate systems and applications made revenue and profit data prone to error and inconsistencies, while limitations on how information was organized and analyzed made it difficult for Energizer to create accurate business plans and forecasts...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

5 Ways ERP can help you implement Lean

whitepaper Lean delivers what companies really need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity, and better customer service. Becoming lean has been a goal of most companies...

Tags: erp

[02 May 2008]

Ventana Research: Tuning ERP and the Supply Chain for Profitable Growth

whitepaper This Ventana Research white paper discusses how ERP can optimize your supply chain to satisfy customers, minimize costs and maximize profit. Supply chain management (SCM), a critical part of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, no longer...

Tags: erp

[30 Apr 2008]

Integrating Automated Cash Collection with ERP Solutions

whitepaper Businesses with effective document processes are more likely to be leaders in profit growth, and more responsive to changing market conditions. Business processes run on input to and output from ERP solutions.

Tags: back-office

[30 Apr 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News Software developers from NeoSmart, a not-for-profit technology-development organisation, claim they have successfully bypassed User Account Control, a security feature in Windows Vista. The developers suggested on their website over the weekend the...

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod

News Apple yesterday posted a 36 per cent rise in quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of Mac computers, iPod players and iPhones, but its profit margin and cautious outlook disappointed investors. Shares of Apple fell one per cent after the company...

Tags: ipod, iphone, mac, apple

[24 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News The Unesco-recognised scheme to revolutionise rural education, healthcare and sanitation through technology and business acumen, is the work of the Byrraju Foundation - a not-for-profit organisation set up by chairman of Indian outsourcer Satyam...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver the outstanding results its shareholders hoped might force Microsoft to raise its takeover bid. Excluding one-time items and stock compensation costs, the beleaguered...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News As a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers. Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News Internet leader Google said yesterday it saw no impact from a weakening US economy as it posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and waved off fears of an online advertising slump. Excluding one-time items and stock option expenses, profit...

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

Learn how to balance IT challenges with your business strategy

whitepaper IBM Strategy leader Steve Ferencie explains how narrowing the gap between business and IT objectives can help mid-size businesses increase profit and revenue. He cites examples of mid-sized clients who are using IT strategically to evolve from...

Tags: infrastructure management, montgomery research, examples, leader

[16 Apr 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment By their very nature, financial markets encourage and reward individuals who profit from taking calculated risks on the movement of the markets. Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with the most sophisticated software.

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

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