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Streamlining Operations: How a Financial Services Leader Consolidated Accounting Systems for Over 150 Affiliate Firms With Hosted Lawson Software

whitepaper To achieve true economies of scale, National Financial Partners needed to standardize and consolidate their accounting processes across all affiliates while meeting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadlines.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[17 May 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment And let's not overlook the contributory pressures that globalisation and shareholder expectations have placed on financial services, which are the engine rooms of the UK and US economies. So how do you avoid large-scale losses caused by rogue traders?

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

Fit for Business, Fit for Britain: Corporate Fitness Programme for More Competitive and Valuable Businesses

whitepaper Outsourcing allows companies to access the economies of scale of their outsourcing supplier. This white paper explores both the study of the “Potential Economic Impact of Outsourcing on the UK Economy” and then further describes how “Corporate...

Tags: outsourcing, outsourcing, competitive advantage, leverage

[10 Apr 2008]

Optimizing Data Protection: Applying Information Lifecycle Management to Raise Protection Service Levels With Fewer Resources

whitepaper A total systems approach is needed to align disparate protection processes and realize economies of scale. Conventional data protection methodologies are insufficient for today's high-velocity business environment.

Tags: storage management, recovery, protection, data protection

[10 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work Case Study: Federal Austrian Railways (Osterreichischen Bundesbahnen, OBB)

whitepaper The DSC anticipates that by combining SAN and NAS, they will achieve further reductions in TCO through the benefits of synergy and economies of scale in infrastructure management. As the central computing centre of OBB, the Data Service Centre (DSC...

Tags: storage management, san, tco, san nas

[10 Apr 2008]

Centralised or decentralised IT?

Comment Their experiences show IT organisations how to accomplish goals that appear mutually exclusive: directly serving business units and maintaining economies of scale and compatibility in technology. While dramatically improving the speed and quality...

Tags: centralisation, software, development

[09 Apr 2008]

Comprehensive Data Quality With Oracle Data Integrator

whitepaper In fact, inconsistent, inaccurate, incomplete, and out-of-date data are often the root cause of expensive business problems such as operational inefficiencies, faulty analysis for business optimization, unrealized economies of scale, and...

Tags: data quality

[28 Mar 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News Western economies such as the UK and US are "seriously underestimating" the scale of the technology skills shortage they face, according to one of India's most influential IT leaders. Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths...

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

How Multicore Processing and 64-Bit Operating Systems Enhance a Utility Computing Environment

whitepaper As organizations wrestle with how to better align IT with their business and drive economies of scale into their IT environments, increasingly utility computing is an option to consider. In today's market efficiency, effectiveness and the...

Tags: network operating systems

[28 Feb 2008]

Sun Fire X2100, X4100 and X4200 Servers: Redefining x64 Industry Standard Servers

whitepaper IT spending reflects these priorities as businesses are looking at many aspects of return on investment and are standardizing on common tools and technologies in their IT infrastructure to gain economies of scale.

Tags: application servers

[28 Feb 2008]

Taylor Wimpey signs £30m LogicaCMG outsourcing deal

News Paul Caris, CIO of Taylor Wimpey, said in a statement: "Our challenge, following the merger, was to provide a consistent IT service across the enlarged UK business and to deliver cost efficiencies through economies of scale.

Tags: outsourcing, taylor wimpey, logicacmg, contract

[25 Feb 2008]

The Need for Acceleration Technologies to Achieve Cost-Effective Supercomputing Performance for Advanced Applications

whitepaper Leveraging economies of scale lowers costs of production, amortizes research and development, and simplifies software development, as more programmers are familiar with the technologies. Indeed, many supercomputers listed on the tOP500...

Tags: supercomputers

[14 Feb 2008]

The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group

Comment Of course there are financial benefits to economies of scale when it comes to IT but there is no mandate to force that on the different business units. There are also no large-scale technology rollouts across the business - with every project...

Tags: go ahead group, dave lynch, cios, wi fi

[30 Jan 2008]

Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008

Comment The trading platforms may seek to complement this by encouraging flows in emerging market debt or, more precisely, in economies that have avoided the fallout of the subprime crisis. The aspiration of the major platforms must be to become the market...

Tags: bonds, arbitrage, trading platforms, flow

[30 Jan 2008]

Sheep ID tags to combat disease outbreaks

News The bill for UK farmers will also run into the millions but the government says the cost will come down as technologies improve and economies of scale are exploited. Electronic tagging of sheep will be mandatory for UK farmers from 31 December 2009...

Tags: track and trace, farmers, tagging, commission

[19 Dec 2007]

Customer Care Comes of Age article

whitepaper This solution helps businesses become more effective by enabling innovative customer contact strategies, and increases their efficiency by achieving economies of scale and leveraging the flexibility and convergence of IP.Benefits of a Customer...

Tags: call center - contact, interaction, customer interaction, flexibility

[12 Dec 2007]

Passive and Accurate Traffic Load Estimation for Infrastructure-Mode Wireless LAN

whitepaper At the same time, the enormous economies of scale behind IEEE 802.11-basedWLAN products also result in rapid technological advances and astounding pricing efficiencies. The exponential increase in the deployment of IEEE 802.11-based Wireless LAN...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Mobile TV: Europe switches on to DVB-H

News Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner for information society and media, said in a statement: "European mobile TV is a step closer to success following [the] endorsement by the Council of the Commission's strategy for creating economies of scale in...

Tags: viviane reding, dvb-h, mobile tv, council

[30 Nov 2007]

HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot

Comment If we do, governments could topple and economies could be dumped into recession. But the scale of the problem has yet to be understood. It is a climate change-type issue scale-wise - but not enough is being done to tackle it.

Tags: data protection, security breach, hmrc, legislation

[27 Nov 2007]

Cost still main reason for outsourcing

News Cohen said in a statement: "You can only expect to receive that cash infusion once; by the second or third year, those 'economies' are forgotten about, the people originally involved have moved on and all too often the value of the relationship...

Tags: outsourcing, gartner, savings, cash

[21 Nov 2007]

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