Recent Financial Services White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet
Recent Financial Services White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet

• Import/Export Firm Boosts Efficiencies by Integrating Financial and Customer Data
  The U.S. Export Store exports consumer products worldwide using a network of over 250 distributors and affiliates. For its first five years in business, the company managed financials through a manual bookkeeping system based on Microsoft Office Excel and the use of an off-site accountant. But with growth, the company needed a more efficient approach to managing its financials and business relationships. This challenge led the company to deploy an integrated solution for financial and customer management based on Microsoft Office Small Business Management Edition 2006, including Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update.
• Sole Practitioner Saves Time Launching Dental Practice With New Accounting Solution
  Impressions Dentistry is a new dental practice in Renton, Washington. When he started his own office, Dr. Jack Chen experimented with different accounting solutions before choosing Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006. Built to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Office Editions, Small Business Accounting 2006 appealed to Dr. Chen for its familiar, intuitive user interface. Compared to the two weeks it took for him to learn another accounting software, Dr. Chen was fully productive in a day or two with Small Business Accounting 2006. When integrating with his practice-management solution, Small Business Accounting 2006 automatically uploads financial data into his patients' records.
• Service Providers and SAS 70 Reports Understanding Requirements, Compliance and Benefits
  This webinar gives a complete overview of the SAS 70 report and explains what a SAS 70 Report is and who can issue it, which types of entities are candidates for SAS 70 audits and what is the difference between a SAS 70 Type and Type II Report. The webinar also outlines how Sarbanes-Oxley has impacted the demand for SAS 70 audits and how a SAS 70 Audit process works and frequency of reporting. Lastly, it introduces participants to the format documenting controls: COSO and COBIT and the benefits to be derived from SAS 70 audits.
• Increase Assets Under Management with On Demand CRM
  The pace of competition and consolidation among wealth management firms continues to intensify. Therefore, these organizations are employing new strategies to strengthen relationships with investors and grow assets under management. On demand CRM combined with standards-based application integration can systematically improve customer relationships and drive increased revenue.
• PCI-DSS: Avoiding the Data Theft Disaster
  This new whitepaper considers the topical issue of how to ensure your customers credit and debit card information is securely stored and protected. The paper focuses on how to use cryptography to achieve PCI-DSS compliance and avoid a business threatening cardholder data theft.
• Capgemini Success Story: Citibank Taiwan
  Citibank Taiwan wanted to focus on core competence, to reduce the costs of Applications Management in Technology Service Group, and to leverage external professional resources on application management. Capgemini provided Applications Management services for Citibank GCB Taiwan in ATM, AVR & Internet Banking Authorization Front-End Systems, PC LAN application systems (including Lotus Notes and some MIS applications), Credit Card application systems, and data mining (using SAS). From April 2002, Capgemini also delivers Internet applications development and testing to Citibank Asia Pacific PC Banking COE (Center of Excellence). Technology of Citibank Taiwan is now able to focus on project management rather than coding.
• Cashferium Helps Retailers and Banks Cut Costs by Keeping Cash Flow Local
  With banks and retailers spending some ?50 billion each year on the handling of cash, the incentive for reducing the amount of cash in transit - one of the main sources of this cost - is powerful. However, with banks and retailers separated by a mountain of disparate processes and systems, the goal of a shorter cash cycle has yet to be realized. Startup Cashferium created a whole new process framework for the exchange of cash between retailers, banks and their ATMs. Cashferium then engaged IBM to help define and optimize these processes, and to create a secure, flexible platform for delivering - and continually adapting - its service.
• Campmor Increases Online Revenue Through Comprehensive Search Solution
  Campmor, an outdoor specialty equipment retailer established in 1978 and based in Paramus, New Jersey, is known for its wide selection of outdoor clothing and camping, backpacking, bicycling and water sports equipment. Increasing numbers of customers were unable to find the products they needed and were abandoning search sessions. IBM delivered a plug-and-play solution that understands users' intent and provides a navigational experience that adapts to their queries. IBM Commerce Module for Omni-Find Discovery Edition simplifies customer navigation and provides targeted, cross-sell and up-sell merchandising opportunities.
• Banco Mercantil do Brasil Saved Up to 30 Percent in Help Desk Resources by Automating Access Management Processes With IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
  Banco Mercantil do Brasil grew and crossed the local borders of the state of Minas Gerais to rapidly reach national dimensions and an outstanding position among the foremost financial conglomerates of Brazil. Banco Mercantil do Brasil does not use state-of-the-art technology just to establish itself as a modern bank. Through technology, the bank seeks to be a truly interactive bank - internally, amongst its branches, and externally, to make things easier for its clients. To fine tune its business model, Banco Mercantil do Brasil needed to automate access management processes for its internal applications. IBM Tivoli Identity Manager software allowed the bank's IT team to manage and control access for both employees and external collaborators from a central point.
• Augsburger Aktienbank AG: Web Update Puts Modern Face Forward; Increases Online Business
  Augsburger AktienBank AG (AAB) is a small private bank, with only a single location and branch office in Augsburg, Germany. AAB needed to implement a modern Web presence - one that would support real-time Internet banking and brokerage transactions, streamline business processes, and increase the number of customers doing business online. AAB engaged IBM to design and implement the new Web site and interactive applications. IBM developed the user interface concept and design for the new portal including both the public site and secure banking and brokerage sites. Hosting was moved internally and certain elements of the solution's new WCMS (Web Content Management Solution) architecture were customized to work effectively with the company's environment.
• 50+ Ways to Improve Your Accounts Payable
  Are 19th-century procedures making company inefficient? An accounts payable team is at the core of a corporate accounting department, and if it isn't functioning properly then the monthly accounts cannot be prepared promptly, the company will not, at any point in time, know of its total liabilities, budget holders spend too much of their valuable time processing orders and approving invoices for payment. As well there will a low level of accuracy in monthly accounts due to missed liabilities and posting errors, suppliers will constantly query payments. This webcast will show more that 50 ways to improve account payable.
• Seamless Integration of HVB Romania and BCIT Achieved in Record Time
  In order to further expand in Romania, the former HVB Group - now part of UniCredit Group - acquired Banca Comerciala Ion Tiriac (BCIT) and subsequently merged it with its local subsidiary. HVB Group needed a competent integration partner to spearhead the complete legal, organizational and technical merger, which had to be accomplished within 10 months. Based on the positive experience in previous merger programs, Capgemini was again entrusted as integration partner. In an exciting collaboration between the two banks, the head office, the software provider WAVE Solutions, 3rd party providers and Capgemini, HVB Romania and BCIT have been seamlessly integrated into one legal entity with one IT system.
• Microsoft Dynamics Financial Demo
  Easy access to critical information is key to accurate strategic decisions. See for yourself how the integrated capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics