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IBM' Storwize' V7000 is a virtualized storage system designed to consolidate block and file workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management, reduced cost, highly scalable capacity, performance and high availability. IBM Storwize V7000 also offers improved efficiency and flexibility through built-in solid state drive (SSD) optimization, thin provisioning and non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage. The system can virtualize and reuse existing disk systems offering a greater potential return on investment.

What's the Opportunity for Mobile Imaging in Insurance? Mobile Deposit, using the camera on smartphone to deposit a check, has changed the way consumer’s bank and banks compete. It helped the banking industry acquire new customers and dramatically reduce the cost of processing paper checks. Insurers have the opportunity to realize a similar benefit by incorporating mobile document imaging technology into their sales, distribution and claims processes.

Capacity management may not be quite dead, but the days of making periodic decisions using trending models are. Financial services organizations are radically changing how they plan and manage infrastructure to cope with the complexity of large-scale virtual and cloud environments and prevent the over-provisioning that results from old school planning models. The focus has shifted toward approaches that model demand "pipelines" and forecast based on capacity bookings, which more resembles a hotel reservation system than traditional capacity management. This is creating a whole new operational model that enables infrastructure planners, application owners and capacity teams to measure, control and plan for the constant flow of workloads in and out of an environment (on-boarding and de-commissioning), as well as organic growth (trending), all while optimizing workload placements and resource allocations to ensure optimal use of available capacity.

The Future of the Financial Industry: Banking on Customer Engagement Small corner banks and large multinational institutions alike are facing a rapidly changing environment. Recent regulations are requiring more carefully managed risk, and banks are under increasing pressure to find new sources of revenue. And customers are more empowered—they're demanding a more personalized experience. Watch this webcast with experts from IBM and Frost & Sullivan to find out how banks can put the customer at the center of their business in order to enhance collaboration, improve efficiency, and most importantly, grow the value of each customer relationship.

The combination of pending regulations, including Basel III and Dodd-Frank, with an increasingly uncertain business environment has led to the realization within the financial services industry that the disciplines of enterprise risk management, liquidity risk management, performance management and compliance are interrelated business obligations. Despite the market challenges, financial institutions must now devise a sustainable return to growth and at the same time be better protected against new or emerging risks.

High-frequency trading (HFT) has been in the spotlight recently as market participants have debated the value of HFT for investors. While only a certain number of players compete at the ultra-low latency level, many other players are taking advantage of technologies utilizing models and strategies that leverage new data sets as well as more types of information. For instance, many firms are using Big Data technologies, coupled with complex event processing (CEP) and in-memory data analytics engines to uncover new trading opportunities. Big Data, which collects and brings in various newer types of data such as mobile tracking data and web search histories, can help traders and portfolio managers uncover the next trend or up and coming company. But how can market participants take advantage of Big Data without increasing latency or breaking the bank. Join Ivy Schmerken, editor-at-large for Wall Street & Technology, Dushyant Shahrawat, senior analyst at TowerGroup, and SAP/Sybase for an editorial webcast that will focus on the opportunities when it comes using Big Data in a trading strategy.

Decades of experience have made insurers wary of legacy policy administration replacement initiatives due to highly publicized failures. In recent years modern rules-and-tools systems have gone a long way toward mitigating the risks associated with traditional, monolithic systems while providing increased flexibility and product speed-to-market. Nevertheless, insurers continue to struggle to separate hype from reality in vendor promises and to make sense of an emerging range of options, from best-of-breed and componentized suites to emerging cloud-based delivery options. In order to be able to make a compelling business case today, insurance executives must not only understand the merits of available solution options and implementation approaches, but also think more in terms of business, rather than technology, transformation as enabled through the construction of a holistic technology environment.

It's safe to say that mobility is 'table stakes' for insurers. But attached to each nifty new application or tablet experience are two major questions: How effective is this, and how can we be sure? Establishing a library of major mobile benchmarks and metrics is important in making the business case for further mobile investment. Additionally, senior insurance executives will be looking for sophisticated strategies to develop and maintain newly implemented mobile initiatives.

The mobile market is changing rapidly - driven by increased consumer demands and the continual introduction of new and innovative technologies. In order to keep up with this rapidly changing market space and technology pace, integrated tools are required to help quickly plan, design, build and test mobile applications.

Financial services organizations still have time to implement a successful and sustainable Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) solution given the timing:

The need for the right messaging middleware is more important than ever, as more buy-side firms and broker/dealers seek robust electronic trading strategies with unfailing system reliability and pre-trade analytics to make better trading decisions. But this need comes at a time when technology spending is declining across the capital markets, as firms try to cut costs but still fund strategic new projects. The right messaging middleware can meet all of these challenges.

For software development teams in regulated industries, the ability to demonstrate compliance with a complex and dynamic set of regulations, including internal control of software development processes, is costly and challenging. IBM has given you process definition and enactment with lifecycle traceability through CLM. View this webcast to learn exactly how we take that further to support segregation of duties, work authorization, and audit report generation. We'll show you out of the box functionality as well as extensions, report templates, and tips and tricks. View this webcast if you care about reducing costs and risks of software development compliance.

As databases continue to expand at an exponential rate, financial organizations are challenged to find ways to efficiently analyze the data in a timely manner. With no end in the proliferation of data, how can firms use all of the data in their data warehouses? Just storing the data doesn't provide any value. Analyzing the data for better customer service, new products or to respond to regulatory queries is how firms can get more value from their data. But given all of the business challenges, how can IT organizations respond to the data analytics needs from various business units without adding massive amounts of CPU processing power?

Mobile banking has evolved so much and become such a prominent channel in its brief lifespan that it is hard to define it as “emerging” anymore. With various reports indicating anywhere from 15-20 percent of the banking population engaging in mobile, it is becoming an ever-larger segment of the customer base. Yet many banks still haven’t mastered the mobile customer experience.

Gaining control and quick access to paper documents, e-mails, electronic forms and more can help you make better policy and claims decisions, speed up customer service and streamline. But how do you choose the right content management system?

Every new hire is a new opportunity to grow your retail store sales. Smart retailers, however, know that there’s more to staffing than just adding names to the work schedule. Stores that find the best talent, bring them onboard quickly, and make a significant investment in brand training, are those who are winning the battle for shoppers’ hearts and wallets.

Financial services firms are reshaping how their finance, risk, compliance and treasury department processes, information and infrastructures are aligned. External mandates have established the requirements, and business pressures have forced reaction. Does your firm understand the impacts of its financial and treasury decisions related to customers, transactions, or asset investments? Are conventional accounting (ledger), financing (capital), and treasury (cash/liquidity) practices yielding the desired outcomes while minimizing your firm's risk exposure? These decisions are determining the course and success of strategies. Be it banking, capital markets or insurance, all financial firms will need to rely on their best information to make the best decision.

Cloud Client Computing transforms computer based learning in K12 education. With Virtual Labs you can unleash student learning opportunities while keeping control of the technology. IT management can change from a focus on device management to digital identity management and as a result, students gain wider access to device neutral content. Join this webinar to learn from expert Jeff McNaught, Executive Marketing Director & Chief Strategy Officer for Dell Cloud Client Computing as he explores this true end-to-end IT solution.

Schurman Retail Group has exceptional customer service. In fact, it's "legendary." The company, which has several retail brands under its umbrella, including PAPYRUS, American Greetings and Carlton Cards in the U.S. and Canada, even goes so far as to iconize its best employees and stores on a "Legendary Wall" in its corporate office. Over the past nine months, Schurman Retail Group has not only overhauled its take on customer service, putting more responsibility into the hands of its retail employees, but also implemented an incentive plan for team members at all levels of the business.

Like many industries, Financial Services organizations (including Banks, Financial Markets and Insurance companies) face many challenges and conflicting priorities including reducing operating costs and risks while driving new sources of revenue, building capital and enhancing customer satisfaction. But often the cost and complexity of rigid infrastructures, silos of systems, and significant investments in legacy applications and resource skills hinder an organization’s ability to effectively tackle the initiatives critical to the business.

Analysts predict the rate of default loans is slowing, and that 2012 may be the year the housing market begins to turn the corner—so what’s the impact on your mortgage and loan operations? Does your bank have a plan to redeploy highly trained staff from default to new loan originations? Can you execute on the plan? Does the plan enable you to adjust to the ebbs and flows of the market?

Barclays, a multinational banking and financial services provider, realized they huge file transfer problem—one that was making their internal teams and partners (not to mention their customers and auditors) very unhappy. Every project the managed file transfer team delivered was custom-built to exacting requirements. Sending data outside the bank was a costly proposition involving hours of red tape and taking up to 12 weeks. The solution was to fundamentally shift the way their organization worked. The goal? To make file transfer as easy as sending a letter (but much more secure.)

Proliferating channels have made it more challenging than ever for insurance organizations to provide a consistent experience for all customer and agent touch points. Furthermore, legacy systems can hamper insurers from providing multi-channel communications that meet customer expectations. Modern services-oriented technologies that address data, content, and business logic can go a long way in enabling insurers to meet customer communications challenges – while also increasing competitive advantage through operational efficiencies, faster speed to market and a better customer experience.

Insurance companies—needing to deal with compliance issues, risk management, complexity of product offerings, precise and timely customer communications and complexity of internal systems—are inherently dependent on document-intensive processes. From quotes and policies to billing statements and claims, it is crucial for insurers to have the most reliable and efficient document automation solutions to streamline these processes along with the best technology to deliver communications to customers.