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GIEOM: Software Firm Uses Process Diagrams to Speed Deployment by 50 Percent

February 26, 2013 12:00am PST

GIEOM was founded in 2008 by software professionals in the banking sector. The company's product, Graphical Intelligent Electronic Operations Management (GIEOM), provides graphical frameworks to...

Provided by: Microsoft

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BancVue Better Prepares Small Banks for Battle Through Virtualization

January 28, 2013 12:00am PST

Feeding resources to millions of bank consumers requires an agile, high-performing IT environment to keep every piece in place and run smoothly 24/7. To maintain uptime and deliver services to a...

Provided by: VMW Games

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Tulane University: Tulane University Gains HIPAA-Compliant, Disaster-Tolerant Email Infrastructure

January 28, 2013 12:00am PST

Tulane University wanted to upgrade its aging email infrastructure, but its needs were somewhat complex. It wanted leading-edge email, collaboration, and messaging services, but it also wanted a...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Customer Satisfaction Survey for Banking Institution

November 26, 2012 12:00am PST

The Client is one of the largest banks headquartered on the east coast. This banking institution decided that they needed a way to measure customer satisfaction and their customer's view of their...

Provided by: Telvista

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Achieving Regulatory Compliance With Automated Data Flow Approach

September 14, 2012 12:00am PDT

The changing paradigm of banking regulations all over the globe has ensured that the CTOs of leading banks and financial institutions look at Audit, Risk and Governance with a renewed focus. To...

Provided by: Informatica

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vCom Success Story - West Coast Bank

September 11, 2012 12:00am PDT

West Coast Bank (WCB) is one of the most prominent banks in the Pacific Northwest. The WCB IT team received poor customer service and multiple bills. As the data network evolved over time, it grew...

Provided by: vCom solutions

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Bank Benefits From Borderless Network and Collaboration

August 8, 2012 12:00am PDT

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated is a leading pan-African bank with operations in 32 countries across the continent, more than any other bank. Their challenges are to standardize provision of...

Provided by: Cisco

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North Shore Credit Union Case Study

August 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Learn how North Shore Credit Union stays lean and agile using a hosted, secure, and private cloud solution based on HP Converged Infrastructure technologies. Their HP environment has been up 100...

Provided by: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

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Industrial Bank of Korea: The Establishment of a BI Portal to Support Company-Wide Accounting and Share Knowledge

July 29, 2012 12:00am PDT

IBK built an IFRS closure system in 2009. While carrying out internal consolidation. The bank has also come to understand the many troubles which exist in generating internal and external reports...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Handelsbanken: Bank Limits IT Staff Costs as Business Expands by Upgrading Management Software

July 19, 2012 12:00am PDT

With a longstanding history in Sweden, Handelsbanken is quickly establishing a presence across Europe. The bank's continued growth has resulted in a need to deploy more servers to support various...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Mainline Provides Consolidation and Virtualization to Banco De La Nación (NY) to Improve Performance and Lower Cost

July 9, 2012 12:00am PDT

Banco de la Nacion Argentina (BNA) was an autonomous commercial bank of the eighth-largest nation in the world. It was facing some challenges relating to the bank's core IT infrastructure. They...

Provided by: Mainline Information Systems

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PlainsCapital: Nationwide Bank Reduces Data Consolidation Time by 92 Percent, Makes Faster Decisions

July 2, 2012 12:00am PDT

As PlainsCapital grew from a community bank to a nationwide financial institution with US$5.7 billion in assets and operations in 40 states, it outgrew the financial reporting system that had...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Dubai Bank: Customer-Centric BI Enhances Bank's Capability for Better Business Insights and Decision Making

June 27, 2012 12:00am PDT

Dubai Bank is a Shari'a-compliant bank with 700+ employees. The bank offers a wide range of services and products to its private and corporate clients. The ability to capture and analyze...

Provided by: Microsoft

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HBOS Passes Milestone of 200 Live Riverbed Steelhead Appliances, Supporting Corporate Growth, IT Agility and Competitive Strength

June 4, 2012 12:00am PDT

HBOS Australia wanted consistent, LAN-like performance for all its key applications at its 200+ BankWest branches across Australia. It also needed a WAN Acceleration solution which could support...

Provided by: Riverbed Software

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Banco Central do Brasil: Brazilian Bank Will Boost Performance, Speed Reporting, and Handle Data Growth

May 3, 2012 12:00am PDT

Banco Central do Brasil (Central Bank of Brazil) the country's bank authority, is in charge of tracking the finances of more than 150 banks. The organization wanted to improve the performance of...

Provided by: Microsoft

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The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO): Development Bank Improves Analysis and Speeds Reporting Time With BI Solution

April 27, 2012 12:00am PDT

The Netherlands Development Finance COmpany (FMO) is a development bank that invests in companies and financial institutions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Development bank FMO invests in...

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Fiserv: Saving USD8 Million in Five Years and Helping Banks Improve Business Outcomes Using IBM Technology

April 23, 2012 12:00am PDT

With the trend toward consolidation in the banking industry, small and midsize banks and credit unions are seeking new ways to attract, retain and grow profitable customer relationships while...

Provided by: IBM

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Caja Laboral: Credit Union Teams With Strategic Partner to Implement Productivity-Boosting Solution

April 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

Caja Laboral is a credit union that provides banking and financial services to customers. They needed to update its antiquated telephone system. They chose Microsoft to overcome this challenge....

Provided by: Microsoft

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BNZ: New Zealand Bank Gets to Market Faster With Self-Service Business Intelligence

April 2, 2012 12:00am PDT

As one of the biggest banking corporations in New Zealand, BNZ is a heavy consumer of data. Whenever BNZ develops a new product or plans a marketing campaign. BNZ wants faster, more flexible...

Provided by: Microsoft

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DenizBank: Bank Delivers IT as a Service Using Private Cloud Model, Avoids $12 Million Expense

March 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

DenizBank, a fast-growing bank in Turkey, constantly needed new technology to support its growth - but data center costs were spiraling upward. To reduce costs and speed the delivery of IT...

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