Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

WHITE PAPER: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study will shed important light on how service management software, in particular, is helping to improve productivity and provide real-time visibility into critical financial data.

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 | Published: 01 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: A new approach to Business Process Management (BPM) is the use of BPM and SOA together in a layering strategy. This white paper explores the BPM layered concept and offers a case study of how ABN AMRO, one of the world's largest financial institutions, has benefited from its deployment.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is designed to help companies, large, small, public, and nonpublic, navigate some of the “hype” that sometimes blurs the line between fact and fiction surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the concerns and goals of the modern CFO during this crucial, post-recession recovery period. Topics discusses inside are the increased need for fast, acurate and keeping up with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) while moving forward.

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: At the core of the programme is the vision of providing political, business and ICT leaders with greatly improved agility, flexibility and choice in the ICT that enables the public sector and to deliver substantial cost savings on both existing and new ICT services.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical architecture provides a common foundation of software and hardware infrastructure principles for multiple business applications. The technical architecture provides the framework for interfaces, protocols, standards and products to be used in defining a platform that supports applications across UK public sector organisations.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In late 2010, a survey of over 400 senior finance executives in the US on the value of business intelligence (BI) applications was conducted by CFO Research Services (CRS). The results are very informative and can be found in this report.

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a detailed look into at the challenges associated with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and best practices to overcome them and manage your financial information.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This nine-page Buyer’s Guide to Financial Services IT assesses the implications and challenges facing CIOs and senior IT professionals.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Colonial Company, a diversified holding company in Montgomery, Alabama, was in need of a reliable data storage system that required less maintenance, less manual interaction and more automated features. Read this case study to learn how Colonial adopted a modern expandable storage platform and the benefits they realized.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that while the global economic recession of recent years has largely been replaced by a lethargic recovery, many workers continue to be impacted by job loss, reduction insalary and benefits, or job change.

Posted: 20 Mar 2011 | Published: 20 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this e-book to learn how to approach application lifecycle management (ALM) in order to deliver the timely, effective, modern applications that real business outcomes rely on.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Managing mobile costs is a challenge for all organisations, especially as responsibilities and budget authority may often sit in several places—IT, finance, personnel, managers and, of course, the employees themselves.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Financial institutions need to take immediate steps to ensure they understand the experience of their customers who are transacting online. In this white paper learn how to implement an effective customer experience management (CEM) to help build customer loyalty, revenue, cost savings, and more.

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Published: 29 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: As the global economy slowly heals, finance leaders are looking to fulfill the promise of the last 20 years. Much of the hard work has been done, the infrastructure largely in place. The challenge is to build upon this platform to drive dramatic improvement in the quality and value that finance delivers.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses seven ways healthcare IT teams can use Dell Compellent Fluid Data storage to drive efficiency, ensure high availability and protection, and readily adapt to constant change.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this Bloomberg Businessweek case study to learn how Israeli auto importer Colmobil Corp. changed its entire organizational structure and business processes, and, as part of the transformation, overhauled its legacy technology infrastructure to improve its customers' experiences and create business growth.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: The commercial potential of cloud computing and cloud services is widely accepted, both in private industry and in the public sector.  The opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency in the UK public sector are real and achievable, but require significant changes to procurement practices, delivery frameworks and across the supplierlandscape.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: By creating flexible work environments and offering telework options for employees to work remotely, companies can improve job satisfaction, worker attraction and retention while lowering costs, increasing productivity, improving sustainability and maintaining business continuity.

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Because our world is becoming more connected and interactive every day, it has become imperative for IT infrastructures to provide quick delivery of services and reduce costs. Read this resource and learn how a converged infrastructure strategy provides the agility your organization needs to improve it's time to business value.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT pros anticipate big gains from an integrated SOA suite that includes pre-integration with BPM technology. The top benefit: the ability to strategically align information technology with an enterprise’s business mission. Learn how global enterprises have achieved this goal thanks to Oracle’s fully integrated SOA product line.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This installment, the second in a three-part series, explores how simplification extends the value of data center standardization efforts and forms a stable, efficient base that can be used to support automation.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 31 Aug 2010