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Photos: UAVs land in the Smithsonian: The National Air and Space Museum pays tribute to unmanned military aircraft like the Predator and the tech advances behind them. by CNET News.com; Tags: news, national air and space museum, TechRepublic Inc., Smithsonian Institution, Photograph, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-01
Photos: Smithsonian-worthy printer: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash has earned a spot in the Smithsonian for his work with digital photo printers.; Tags: digital photograph, photograph, printer, Smithsonian Institution; Image galleries 2007-01-15
Geek Trivia: Museum of natural mystery: Which two high-ranking U.S. government positions involve serving on the Smithsonian's board of regents? A mere 159 years ago, the U.S. government laid the legal foundation for the world's largest museum complex. On Aug. 10, 1846, President James K. Polk signed into law a congressional act that...; Tags: James Smithson, Jay Garmon, Geek Trivia Newsletter, U.S., Tradition, Board, Smithsonian Institution, Chancellor, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Technical articles 2005-08-09
LightPointe Case Study: Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian Institution, comprising more than 140 million artifacts and specimens of American culture, art, science and history, has been an American treasure since its founding in 1846. While the cultural treasures displayed within its walls are hundreds, even thousands of years old, the computers supporting Smithsonian operations are state-of-the-art...; Tags: Smithsonian Institution, LightPointe, Wi-Fi, Construction, Wireless; Case studies
Strohl Systems Group Case Study: Smithsonian Institution: There is no question that protecting a company's ability to make money is important. But risk mitigating efforts often reside in a world of seeming intangibles and appear more real on paper than in the immediate environment. Established in 1846, the Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum complex. The...; Tags: Smithsonian Institution, Business Security, It Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Management; Case studies

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IBM Financial Markets Industry Models Support for Trade Processing in the 'On Demand' Era: Investors in securities markets want to know that their order will be executed in a timely fashion at the best possible price and that the product will be delivered on time, at the agreed upon terms. They need to be assured that they will not lose their investment because of...; Tags: Financial, Industry, Financial Company, IBM Corp., Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-01-19
Graham Nash sings joys of digital photo biz: Correct link to the photo gallerySmithsonian-worthy printerhttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-1035_11-40959.html; Tags: digital photograph, graham nash, hardware, news, photograph, printer, Sonja Thompson; Discussion threads 2007-01-16
Amentra Leads Financial Institution Through Governance and Process Management Initiative: A leading financial institution handles millions of financial transactions a day, and not only must these transactions be stored, but also analyzed for trends and future business opportunities. In such an environment, maintaining adequate controls around the analytical environment becomes a mission critical business function. The financial institution chose Teradata...; Tags: Process Management, Financial, Financial Company, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies
Roles as a Coordination Construct: Introducing powerJava: This paper discusses the role metaphor to coordination. Roles are used in sociology as a way for structuring organizations and for coordinating their behavior. In this model, the distinguishing features of roles are their dependence on an institution, and the powers they assign to the players of roles. The institution...; Tags: Role, Institution; White papers
Financial Institution Selects Hitachi Solution for Its Migration to a Wide Area Ethernet Network Using Hierarchical Bandwidth Shaping: Financial Institution wanted to integrate three separate legacy ATM and leased line based Wide Area Networks WAN to a new Wide Area Ethernet network to connect their Headquarters, Network Center and 160 Branch Offices, while managing bandwidth to protect different applications, including Voice over IP VoIP. The Institution deployed Hitachi's...; Tags: Ethernet, Bandwidth, Financial, Network, Hitachi Ltd., Migration, Storage, Networking, Hardware; Case studies 2006-03-21
The Self-Defending Network: Enabling Proactive Compliance and Risk Management for Financial Institutions: This paper provides thought leadership on how a self-defending network can enable proactive compliance and risk managment for a financial institution, incorporating people, processes, technology and services necessary to protect the institution and its customers from today's evolving real-time threats.; Tags: Financial, Compliance, Financial Company, Risk Management, Cisco Systems Inc., Financial Services; White papers
HP Case Study: Banco de Credito: Banco de Credito - BCP, the most important and industry-leading financial institution in the country, was facing the need to reduce the high cost resulting from the support provided to all its desktop PCs. Today, HP's on demand Access services provide, manage, support, transport and store all the desktop PCs,...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Desktops, Hardware; Case studies
Boosting Administrative Efficiency and Speeding Time to Market for Academic Programmes: Kingston University is a forward-thinking institution at the forefront of innovation for Virtual Learning Environments VLEs. It needed an integrated document management solution to ensure the flow of information throughout the institution was consistently and efficiently managed. Kingston chose Microsoft partner, Unisys, to implement an integrated portal-based solution using Microsoft...; Tags: Solution, Unisys Corp., Microsoft Corp., Kingston University, University, Document Management, Content Management, Groupware, Managerial Accounting, E-mail Servers, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Internet; Case studies
Leading Financial Institution Uses Data Matching Technology for Global Watch List Compliance: A global financial institution had a problem faced by any bank, insurer or brokerage: how to maintain compliance with emerging regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and OFAC. With DataFlux, the company could match transactional data to a third-party list of known criminals, terrorists or affiliated organizations. The solution lowered the amount...; Tags: Financial, Compliance, Financial Company, SAS Institute; Case studies
Republic Polytechnic Is First Education Institute in Asia to Deploy Cisco Unified Wireless Network Implemented by Singapore Computer Systems: The first educational institution in Singapore to adopt the Problem-Based Learning approach for all its diploma programmes, Republic Polytechnic has five schools offering nineteen diploma courses in Information & Communications Technology, Engineering, Applied Science, Technology for the Arts, and Sports, Health & Leisure. The institution believes that the use of...; Tags: Education, Network, Institution, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Republic Polytechnic, Wi-Fi, Wireless; Case studies
At the Forefront of Multi-Channel Banking: The Woolwich is the first U.K. financial institution to provide interactive mobile banking services via WAP technology and the only bank with true channel integration across branches, telephone, Internet, WAP and interactive digital TV. The institution wanted to exploit new technological advances in order to increase market share and deepen...; Tags: Unisys Corp., Mobile Banking, Banking, Woolwich, WAP, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Case studies
3rd Party Companies and the Gramm-Leech-Bliley act: It seems like the GLB privacy act applies to financial institution that has the relationship with the consumer/customer. Does it also apply to 3rd party companies that the financial institution uses?For instance...John Doe goes to ABC Mortgage for a home loan. ABC Mortgage has to adhere to GLB...; Tags: ABC Mortgage, financial, financial company, glb, glb privacy act, it management, John Doe, jrg@..., privay act; Discussion threads 2006-10-25
Adopting ITIL for IT Service Management: A Fortune 500 global financial institution with customers in over 150 countries was faced with multiple challenges in their IT service management processes due to lack of structure and miscommunications. The bank knew it needed to bring in a partner who understood that a real plan with a clear method...; Tags: Information Technology, Challenge, Financial Company, ITIL, Service Level Management, It Services, Business Structures, Process Improvement, Financial Services, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Finance, Quality, Business Operations, Management; Case studies
Migration of Credit Analysis System of a Major Financial Institution: The financial institution was facing challenge as the gcc compiler is stricter than sun cc compiler e.g. Sun CC was allowing the code to access protected members directly Endian issues, Intel is little endian where as SPARC is big-endian machine. As a solution Infosys helped the client to migrate the...; Tags: Compiler, Financial Company, Migration, Analysis, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Development Tools, Financial Services, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Case studies
Vermont Community Loan Fund Grows With MIP Fund Accounting: The Vermont Community Loan Fund VCLF is a statewide community development financial institution. The financial institution faced the challenge of providing quality reports and information to donors and funding agencies. Their software program wasn't able to do the segregated fund reporting they needed. In order to help community members access...; Tags: Accounting, Solution, Financial, Financial Company, Sage Software, Vermont Community Loan Fund, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies

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