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Nottingham Building Society revamps mortgage applications
Case Study Nottingham Building Society has replaced legacy systems with a new mortgage application supplied by Finnish software specialist Tieto. The new system, which went live in September, will automate much of the mortgage... [17 Dec 2008]
EBS Building Society Gains Competitive Edge With New Channel
White Paper For institutions such as Dublin-based EBS Building Society (EBS), providing mortgage loans are more than a lucrative business, it changes lives. EBS wanted to add a new distribution channel for selling mortgage loans by... [15 Mar 2007]
Building society halves IT costs by ditching mainframes
News The Skipton Building Society has chosen Microsoft over Linux as part of a major IT overhaul that will see it ditch mainframe systems and halve its annual IT bill. Mainframes will be completely eliminated from the... [13 Aug 2003]
Building society banks on chip and PIN
Case Study Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has kicked off the rollout of chip and PIN cards to replace magnetic strip debit cards for more than 100,000 account holders. The building society began... [27 Sep 2005]
Broadband boosts building society's network
Case Study Britannia Building Society has upgraded its network to broadband to cope with the increase in traffic created by the new applications it is rolling out. The UK's second biggest building society,... [02 Sep 2005]
Skipton Building Society Guarding and Managing Data Integrity With One Complete Solution
White Paper The Skipton is the seventh largest building society in the UK. In 1998, Skipton Building Society decided to embark upon a substantial upgrade to its IT environment, by replacing "Dumb" terminals... [04 Aug 2008]
Darlington Building Society Invests in Expand Networks to Support MPLS Investment
White Paper Due to the dispersed nature of its branches, Darlington Building Society made a significant investment in a new MPLS network to provide more control over shared resources and to form the foundation of its disaster... [19 Sep 2008]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society. Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have attacked the UK government over the retention of travel data. The government plans to retain all travel... [10 Feb 2009]
AppLabs Case Study: Derbyshire Building Society
White Paper Derbyshire Building Society is a UK top 10 building society. It is one of the remaining truly mutual building societies; the company slogan is "Local Matters". Derbyshire's existing core customer... [25 Feb 2008]
Smartphones Help Humane Society Get the Job Done, Even in Disaster Areas
White Paper Download this case study to learn why the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) uses Palm® Treo smartphones rather than laptop computers when responding to the needs of animals in crisis. By using Treo... [18 Mar 2009]
The Finnish Medical Society Duodecim Ensures 24/7 Availability for Physicians With Scalable Platform
White Paper The Finnish Medical Society Duodecim wanted to create a stable platform for the ever-increasing number of users accessing the doctors' Web services portal and provide 24/7 availability for both the doctors' service... [01 Jul 2008]
Nationwide Building Society to Make Significant Savings Through Improved Purchasing Processes
White Paper Nationwide Building Society wanted to leverage best-practice financial and purchasing management to gain real-time monitoring and control, and drive accountability as well as realize efficiencies by streamlining,... [30 Apr 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment It has to be, as he has been charged with a root-and-branch rip-and-replace project for the building society. Subsequently, he has had extensive experience with multi-channel retailing at Argos, Boots and travel company... [11 Mar 2008]
Bill Gates Addresses the American Society of Newspaper Editors
White Paper Speaking at the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Seattle, Washington, Bill Gates discussed innovation and highlighted features of Windows Vista and the next version of Microsoft Office. [24 Nov 2006]
Building society in-sources HR using SAP and partners
News Britannia Building Society is moving its HR and payroll systems back in-house, using software from SAP. The UK's second biggest building society has outsourced these functions for the past five years but... [19 May 2006]
