The 2009 SIFMA-IBM Technology Survey Results
Download these survey results and find out what SIFMA members revealed about new technologies and computing models and how they are managing major industry challenges.
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Death to PST Files
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2010-Email is one of a company’s most widely used assets—the average corporate user sends and receives 167 messages per day. Since a company must provide employees constant access to their email accounts and retain copies of every important message, managing the email of an entire enterprise is exceedingly difficult. Many employees use Personal Storage Table (PST) files as a “personal email filing cabinet” that can burden a company’s storage and cause data loss or corruption.
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[WHITE PAPER]
How Data Governance Can Constrain the Value of MDM Initiative
[ Source: Siperian, Inc. ]
January 2010-Over the past several years, we’ve seen rapid adoption of Master Data Management in a variety of industries offering a “single source of truth” across the enterprise. Most of these implementations use a “reactive” style of data governance… Learn how “reactive” data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a “proactive” approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire.
[WHITE PAPER]
A CISO's Guide to Application Security
[ Source: Fortify ]
November 2009-Security breaches are expensive. They cost time, effort, remediation, and reputation restoration. Many IT decision-makers tend to focus their security efforts almost exclusively at the network perimeter. They overlook the software applications that run their day-to-day agencies. These applications are often packed with Social Security numbers, addresses, personal health information, or other sensitive data.
Focusing on security features at both the infrastructure and application level isn’t enough. Organizations must also consider flaws in their ....
[WHITE PAPER]
6 Important Steps to Evaluating a Web Filter
[ Source: St. Bernard Software ]
November 2009-Determining the best Web filter for your organization can be difficult with so many choices on the market. IT Professionals know that there’s more to choosing a solution than looking at a few features and comparing prices. Other considerations may be just as important but you may not be aware of their significance. This informative guide discusses the critical considerations you need to make before you decide, and also, how thoroughly analyzing your options can ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Five Essentials Of Business Recovery
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2009-This whitepaper delivers the 5 critical elements of business recovery you must have, which can help you reduce the risk of lost revenue should your system go down.
[WHITE PAPER]
Uncovering Your Best Business Intelligence: How Next-Generation Insight Portals Turbo-Charge Executive Decision Making
[ Source: Saama ]
January 2010-For IT directors at large companies, delivering effective business intelligence (BI) is a critical responsibility. Corporations invest millions in data warehousing to learn more about the inner workings of their businesses but consolidating insights across multiple BI reporting systems is often a challenge.
Business functions like sales, marketing, operations and manufacturing collect data to help identify potential business problems. However, each functional area often uses different BI tools to collect and maintain this ....
[WHITE PAPER]
The Benefits of Dark Fiber for Healthcare IT Infrastructures
[ Source: Sunesys, LLC ]
November 2009-Today, healthcare IT professionals are being asked to shoulder increasing responsibility for the delivery of key services to hospital and healthcare organizations. Yet many financial and operational obstacles can make fulfillment of these new services highly complex. The current recession has put increasing demands on the healthcare IT professional. Yet even with today’s flatlined or shrinking budgets, IT professionals are being tasked with delivering additional medical and administrative applications. How will you respond to these ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Streamline Your Business with Innovative Tools
[ Source: Citrix Online ]
February 2009-Citrix Online has put together a practical guide that explores how Web-based solutions have enabled real companies to achieve remarkable results, such as reducing cost per sale by 75 percent; improving productivity by 10 percent and increasing revenue by $1 million.
[WHITE PAPER]
Enterprise Packages: Where Are They Headed?
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
November 2009-This shift in the development and usage of business applications in large corporations began in the 1990s when enterprise packages arrived on the scene. The traditional way of developing an application for corporations from the ground up (whether it be for financial accounting or inventory management) was created and the concept of picking up and configuring a commercially available, off-the-shelf package was adopted. The threat of the looming Y2K issues in the late 1990s acted ....
[WHITE PAPER]
The Tangled Web: Silent Threats & Invisible Enemies
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2010-Today’s cyber-criminals are experts at using anonymity, deceit and subterfuge to victimize companies with a variety of covert malware, spam and scams that hamper employee productivity and cut profits. Attacks using rich media, open-source platforms, web 2.0 collaboration tools and social-networking sites make business networks vulnerable to this new breed of web threats.
On-premise web-security solutions have the disadvantages of high costs for infrastructure, managing the security system and training IT staff. Learn about ....
[WHITE PAPER]
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The US Financial Institution Landscape: How Has It Changed? What Are the Options?
[ Source: Symcor LP ]
June 2009-
There continues to be a tremendous amount of financial strife in the financial services industry that is causing banks to change the ways they are delivering services to their customers and control costs. This paper points this out and highlights outsourcing of payments processing as a legitimate option and what banks should look for in an outsourcing partner.
[WHITE PAPER]
IBM Customer Care & Insight Solution for Banking
[ Source: TechWeb ]
April 2009-
Wayne Wilczynski
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Smarter Banking for a Better Planet
[ Source: TechWeb ]
February 2009-
Financial services organizations can deliver financial market stability and sustainable returns to the real economy with smarter banking that melds innovative trust, service and products with green computing for a better planet.
[VIDEO]
Banking Industry Framework Accelerates Time to Value
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
IBMs Banking Industry Framework provides fast, measurable returns with demonstrated payback to solve the banking industrys newest paradox: how to cut costs while investing for the future by
[VIDEO]
Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence
[ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009-
In the wake of IndyMac and many others, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision of ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Revenue Leakage -- Opportunity Calling for Banks!
[ Source: SunTec Business Solutions ]
February 2009-
Revenue Leakage has been a universal phenomenon, gnawing up the profit margins of service and transaction-based industries. Service providers in industries such as telecom have effective revenue assurance solutions to counter this threat. Although executives and managers in the banking industry acknowledge the prevalence of revenue leakage, they are not able to pinpoint its source or quantity. Banks need help in identifying the sources/points of leakage, quantifying the volume of revenue loss and also in ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Customer-Centricity -– Strategy for Survival
[ Source: SunTec Business Solutions ]
July 2008-
Customer relationships have taken center stage in the financial services industry today. In order to sail through the tough competition and sustain revenues, it is important for financial institutions to focus on retaining their profitable customers. Aiming to achieve customer-centricity, banks around the world have implemented various strategies -– some are enterprise-wide strategies while others are departmental -- but they still fall short of achieving substantial success. In essence, it is essential for banks to ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Risk Management: Enterprisewide Risk Analysis
[ Source: TechWeb ]
September 2009-
One financial services discipline that has taken a lot of heat has been risk management. Some experts say the beginnings of the financial crisis were allowed to form because firms didn't practice risk management correctly.
[VIDEO]
Top Strategies in Risk Management
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
One financial services discipline that has taken a lot of heat has been risk management. Some experts say the beginnings of the financial crisis were allowed to form because firms didnt practice risk management correctly.
[VIDEO]
Axis Bank Enhances Customer Experience
[ Source: SunTec Business Solutions ]
September 2008-
Axis Bank, one of the leading private sector banks in India, replaced its homegrown legacy system with SunTec's TBMS-F solution and established a centralized dynamic billing and pricing framework, thus increasing its operational efficiency significantly. The Relationship-based Pricing and Centralized Billing product suite enabled Axis Bank to manage fee billing for current account, cash credit and savings account banking functions. TBMS-F also provided Axis Bank with the ability to offer personalized product packages to specific ....
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5 Steps to Operationalizing Customer Centricity in FSI
[ Source: Siperian, Inc. ]
January 2010-
Initially, CDI focused on bringing together and resolving inaccurate data that was housed in disparate applications across the enterprise. Now, it is evident that the key value of CDI is in understanding the nature of the relationships companies have with their customers and in uncovering the depth of organization-to-customer and customer-to-customer interactions. Get the “5 Steps to Operationalizing Customer Centricity in FSI” and learn more about maximizing your ability to drive revenue, increase profits, and ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Optimizing Costs While Improving Agility
[ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010-
While short-term cost reduction can be easily achieved, long-term cost optimization requires that financial institutions simplify their business models, rethink their organizational structures, and employ technology in new ways.
[VIDEO]
Top Strategies in Risk Management
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
One financial services discipline that has taken a lot of heat has been risk management. Some experts say the beginnings of the financial crisis were allowed to form because firms didnt practice risk management correctly.
[VIDEO]
Regulation and Its Impact on Client Acquisition in Banking
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
Keeping a client informed through good communication seems like one of the most basic things that a financial firm can do to improve customer relationships. But, more often than not, they dont do a good job with client management.
[VIDEO]
Banking Industry Framework Accelerates Time to Value
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2009-
IBMs Banking Industry Framework provides fast, measurable returns with demonstrated payback to solve the banking industrys newest paradox: how to cut costs while investing for the future by
[VIDEO]
Client Acquisition and Retention in Banking
[ Source: TechWeb ]
November 2009-
Not only have financial firms been hammered by losses due to risky investments, but they are losing clients to competitors as well.
[VIDEO]
Heartland Breach: Lessons Learned
[ Source: TechWeb ]
October 2009-
Heartland Payment Systems suffered a major security breach at the hands of Russian Hackers. It sent shockwaves through the industry. We talked to CSO Kris Herrin about the attack and what's being done at Heartland and across the industry.
[VIDEO]
Building Client Advocacy: New Opportunities for Wealth Management Firms
[ Source: IBM ]
June 2009-
Ask a relationship manager or private banker about the importance of being client-focused, and they will likely respond that it's in their DNA. Yet according to our new research, three out of five clients are not advocates of their wealth management firms. This finding illuminates a troubling statistic in an industry known for its service excellence. At the same time, we believe there is a tremendous opportunity for wealth management firms to strategically use client ....
[WHITE PAPER]
Global CEO Study: The Enterprise of the Future in the Banking Industry
[ Source: IBM ]
June 2009-
Based on interviews with more than 1,100 CEOs worldwide, the IBM Global CEO study revealed five core traits of successful enterprises of the future. Find out what they had to say about the changing global economy, the impact of innovation and globalization, and how corporate social responsibility factors in for today’s banking leaders. Download the study to discover the key implications for banking leaders.
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How Technology Is Changing Corporate Treasury
[ Source: TechWeb ]
October 2009-
The Financial Crisis has dramatically changed the landscape for Corporate Banking, and posed new challenges for corporate Treasurers. Technology innovations are revolutionizing the corporate banking, treasury, and cash management functions.
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