A Strategy for Governing IT Projects, Programs, and Portfolios Throughout the Enterprise [ Source: Oracle ]

March 2013- Making the right IT investment decisions is both critical and challenging. How can you help ensure that only the projects that provide the highest value to the business actually get implemented, even across such a diverse technology landscape?

Reputational Risk and IT in the Banking Industry [ Source: IBM ]

March 2013- How IT risk management can shape the reputation and value of a company

It's no secret that the reputation of your financial institution is at risk every day. An IT issue can set in motion a series of events that can have significant impact on business value, affecting your firm's reputation.

IBM conducted a worldwide study examining how security and business continuity can shape the reputation and value of a company. ...

Bank on the Customer [ Source: IBM ]

March 2013- Customer Focused Enterprise in Banking

GBS White Paper: Forego creating products, "Bank on the Customer"

Though the global economy is still shaking off the effects of the past and current financial crises, banks in both the emerging and developed economies have an opportunity to manage enormous capital growth and wealth creation. To regain customer confidence and earn their slice of the increasingly competitive market, banks must transform themselves by jettisoning old, ...

2011 Cloud Networking Report [ Source: Certeon ]

June 2012- The 2011 Cloud Networking Report provides an in-depth look into the world of the wide area network (WAN).

• Compares and contrasts WAN vs. LAN environments

• Identifies key factors IT organizations are using in their decisions about WAN

• Describes current and future WAN architecture and technology options

Find out why "The majority of IT organizations believe that factors such as the growth in the number of mobile workers and ...

Investment Management - Business Economics [ Source: CAPCO ]

April 2012- Downward pressure on fees, increasingly complex client needs and more diverse product sets are among the new realities requiring investment managers to gain better insight into profitability drivers. Some firms have begun measuring revenue in addition to the traditional profitability proxy of assets under management. However, these metrics are no longer adequate.

Capco can help you model and understand the economics of your business today, enabling you to quickly make more confident decisions ...

Enterprise Capture: Enabling Customer Service Improvement, Cost Cutting, And Compliance For Financial Institutions [ Source: Kofax ]

July 2011- Today the financial services market is experiencing unprecedented transformation. Restructuring, consolidation and volatility are driving significant structural changes in the investment and retail banking sectors. Banks are responding by actively looking for ways to improve liquidity, restore investor confidence, increase customer retention and better compete for deposits. They recognize the need to streamline business processes to better support their clients during account opening, loan origination, mortgage processing and portfolio management.

Banks and other ...

State of the ECM Industry 2011: How well is It meeting business needs? [ Source: Kofax ]

July 2011- Over the last few years, Enterprise Content Management has been one of the fastest growing areas of IT, outstripping traditional enterprise applications with its double-digit growth. Driven partly by the need to contain content chaos, but more positively, by the need to maximize employee productivity, improve knowledge sharing and reduce fixed costs, ECM has taken its place at the IT top-table, both as a concept and as a product.

There is no doubt ...

Rebuilding Trust in Wealth Management [ Source: Thunderhead ]

February 2011- The wealth management industry is changing. After the financial crisis, with its wealth management scandals, clients are nervous about investing their money and are happy to leave it in fixed income products. If wealth managers are to entice these customers back, they have to provide them with more information about how their money is invested.

Managing Wealthy Customers: When Change is the Only Constant [ Source: Oracle ]

September 2008- What are the challenges associated with managing High-Net Worth customers? Read this whitepaper to find out.

Evaluating Opportunities to Streamline Account Opening [ Source: Arius Software ]

September 2009- The recent recession and market volatility is pressuring financial services firms to improve operating processes and reduce costs. The rapid market surge and potential recovery has served a reminder that operational processes must be scalable and ready to take advantage of every opportunity. Many firms are scrutinizing their account opening process since client on-boarding is expensive, labor intensive, and error prone. As a result, improving account opening has become a high priority project with many ...