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Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment They also need to bear in mind current business and technology trends and how these might shape their core banking requirements over the next 20 years. Many who were marked by failed attempts at wholesale change in the late 1980s have until... [02 Jan 2008]
Intel developing chip with two brains
Comment Other companies are working on the dual-core theme as well. An approach like core hopping, which Krewell likened to a game of 'hot potato', could help alleviate the problem. IBM released the Power 4, the first dual-core chip for servers, last year... [21 Aug 2002]
Surviving the recession: a Quocirca series
Comment The solution should include changes to the way the company carries out its business - changes to the core processes that will be facilitated and streamlined by the technology you will be providing. Unfortunately, this is a red herring of the worst... [31 Jan 2002]
BT's new trick: 21CN
Comment A voice over IP core will be a much cheaper way of managing voice," Dunbar says. Within five years, all calls on the BT metro and core networks will be transformed into voice over IP (VoIP). Voice and data will be converged from the home all the... [07 Feb 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Outsourcing just the latest fashion?
Comment Management regarded the IT behind rail maintenance as a core business process. Yet appropriate use of IT is surely a core skill for any successful organisation, and innovation will sometimes be part of what is meant by appropriate. [12 Oct 2004]
Surviving the recession: a Quocirca series
Comment How outsourcing all or part of project can help the business concentrate on its core capabilities IT is seen as a separate part of the organisation rather than a core facilitation tool It's been 12 weeks but we're nowhere near the other end of the... [28 Feb 2002]
The McCue Interview: British Energy CIO, Ian Campbell
Comment There are just over 300 staff in the core in-house IT department at British Energy, plus another 200 in satellite IT teams at the power stations. British Energy's core business is energy generation - its one coal-fired power station and eight... [13 Aug 2007]
Bluetooth - the conspiracy over interoperability
Comment The flaws repaired by the 1.1 specification drastically altered the core Bluetooth protocol. However, what makes Bluetooth useful is the software stack - the profiles on top of the core protocol. In fact, back compatibility between the core... [12 Mar 2002]
CRM: Do you really know what it is?
Comment Firstly, it is born out of the same DNA as business intelligence and data warehousing in that it exists simply because core business systems are ineffective at storing, delivering and utilising information. [30 May 2006]
What's the fuss about... selective outsourcing?
Comment If your core business is retail or finance or whatever, why are you trying to employ people whose sole purpose is to line the coffers of Microsoft, SAP, Siebel, Sun et al? Give yourself the opportunity to concentrate on what you should be doing... [28 Oct 2002]
VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means
Comment The IP network may be a local area network, a company wide area network, a telco's core network or even the public internet. On private networks - LAN, WAN or in the carrier's core - application performance can be assured using two distinct quality... [10 Feb 2005]
IP equals new alliances - get used to it
Comment Managed MPLS networks give carriers much better control of the network right from the core to the edge. Because it is IP-based, the core and the edge of the network can work together," explains Pannell. [20 Aug 2003]
All change for the telecoms old guard
Comment This included bringing its mobile phone interests closer to the core of the business, selling off its non-telecoms arms and cutting costs by L1,000bn (E500m). It said that up to 40,000 jobs were at stake, half of those within the core telecoms areas. [22 Mar 1999]
Devil's Advocate: Redmond's dilemma
Comment In the drive for profit and thereby share price growth, Microsoft has kept the prices of both core products high. Despite the diversity of its broad portfolio, the core of Microsoft's business is the Windows operating system and the Office Suite. [11 Feb 2002]
Microsoft's big idea: Why .NET matters
Comment The idea is that by using a group of standard technologies - with XML and SOAP at the core (two things everyone seems to agree on) - different websites will link services. Tim Beadle, chairman and CIO of marketing consultancy the Opus Group, said... [03 Oct 2001]
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