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- The Cheshire Unifies Mortgage Systems to Meet Regulatory Demands
- The Financial Services Authority FSA in the United Kingdom (U.K.) recently introduced changes to the way in which mortgages were sold, creating the need for a unified Key Facts Illustration KFI. At Cheshire Building Society, the information needed was contained in a variety of legacy systems so the society approached...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Cheshire, Mortgages, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Business Structures, Middleware, .Net, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Finance, Capital Structures, Software, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- PRINCE2 Case Study: The Cheshire Constabulary
- PRINCE2 is a project management method. It is a structured approach, which can be tailored for use on any type or size of project. The Cheshire Constabulary have been using PRINCE2 since 1996. This Case Study describes their experiences. PRINCE2 is used to implement Cheshire Constabulary's Corporate Strategy 'to provide...
- Tags: PRINCE2, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
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- Coventry Building Society Opts for Legato NetWorker
- Coventry Building Society is the fifth largest building society in the United Kingdom. Coventry Building Society began to look for the best possible back up, storage and recovery operation that could move them forward and maintain its competitive advantage. It conducted a product evaluation of four different software packages. As...
- Tags: Legato, Access Control, Coventry Building Society, Storage, Hardware
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- Best Practice Procurement Cuts Costs for Cheshire
- Cheshire County Council provides environmental, community and children's services to 672,000 people in Cheshire. It is the 14th-largest local authority in England and Wales. The council wanted to capture and analyze purchasing data to gain insight into spends and identify best-value suppliers and best-value products. The challenges were to drive...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Supplier, Best Practice, Cheshire County Council, Channel Management, Marketing
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- Visible Breakthrough: Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Aligns Performance to Business Needs
- Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has some 336,000 members and more than £3.2 billion in assets. The company was looking for ultimate in processing performance combined with a flexible pricing model to meet new financial regulations and enhance customer service. As a solution Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (N&P)...
- Tags: Performance, Unisys Corp., Financial Accounting, Performance Management, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- Darlington Building Society Invests in Expand Networks to Support MPLS Investment
- Due to the dispersed nature of its branches, Darlington Building Society made a significant investment in a new MPLS network to provide more control over shared resources and to form the foundation of its disaster recovery strategy. However, the migration to MPLS didn't run as smoothly as expected. Darlington Building...
- Tags: MPLS, Investment, Expand Networks Inc., Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Transformed Customer Service for Leading Scottish Financial Institution
- As Scotland's largest building society, Dunfermline Building Society wanted to improve the flexibility of its customer service. They wanted more efficient, flexible technology, particularly for their telephone banking operation, Dunfermline Direct. The idea was to provide more innovative interaction between their customers and the business. The Society deployed Nortel for...
- Tags: Customer Service, Financial, Nortel Networks Corp., Banking Operation, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-04-22
- AppLabs Case Study: Derbyshire Building Society
- Derbyshire Building Society is a UK top 10 building society. It is one of the remaining truly mutual building societies; the company slogan is "Local Matters". Derbyshire's existing core customer administration system was approximately fifteen years old and hosted on a proprietary mainframe. The decision was taken to undertake a...
- Tags: Society, Derbyshire Building Society, Mainframes, Performance Management, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2007-07-23
- Portman Building Society Standardizes Financial Management and Reporting to Boost Performance
- With more than 1.8 million members and over 140 branches, Portman Building Society is the U.K.'s third largest building society. Portman wanted to streamline and simplify financial management, reporting, and compliance across Portman and its acquired subsidiaries. The company wanted to improve business analysis and performance monitoring and standardize and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Performance, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
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- Skipton Building Society Guarding and Managing Data Integrity With One Complete Solution
- The Skipton is the seventh largest building society in the UK. Founded in 1853, the Skipton has 79 branches from Aberdeen to Plymouth. In 1998, Skipton Building Society decided to embark upon a substantial upgrade to its IT environment, by replacing "Dumb" terminals connected to a mainframe environment, with a...
- Tags: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Data Security, Skipton, Security
- Case studies 2007-09-21
- Nationwide Building Society to Make Significant Savings Through Improved Purchasing Processes
- Nationwide Building Society wanted to leverage best-practice financial and purchasing management to gain real-time monitoring and control, and drive accountability as well as realize efficiencies by streamlining, standardizing, and automating key business processes enterprise wide. The challenge was to reduce the number of customized or "Off-system" processes and cut cycle...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Finance, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Oracle Case Study: Yorkshire Building Society
- One of Britain's largest building societies, with assets exceeding £15 billion, Yorkshire Building Society is owned and run by its members. The Society wanted to leverage existing investment in Oracle Forms by upgrading from client/server version to browser-based Oracle Forms 10g to make back-office lending functionality available to 900 users...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Forms, Oracle Forms WebUtil, Microsoft Word, Asset Management, Word Processors, Operational Accounting, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
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- Building Society IT Department Reduces Development Time by Up to 30 Per Cent With New Application Platform
- Scarborough Building Society's mainframe environment was restricting business growth. IT managers wanted to migrate business-critical applications onto a new platform, but didn't want to rewrite or rebuild them. They decided to transfer these applications onto the Microsoft .NET Framework. As a result of the migration to Microsoft, the IT team...
- Tags: Society, Information Technology, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management
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- Building Society Gets Wired for the Future
- Nationwide is the world's largest building society, and employs more than 16,000 staff in over 850 retail outlets and administration centres. Their current cabling infrastructure was between 12 and 14 years old and whilst it was meeting the current needs of the business, they needed to ensure that they could...
- Tags: Wired Inc., Computacenter
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- Dell Case Study: The Derbyshire Building Society
- Derbyshire Building Society has 53 branches primarily based across the Midlands, with a particular focus on Derbyshire and its close neighbours. Running hundreds of PCs and desktops until they are no longer serviceable is just not practical in this day and age. Derbyshire wanted an IT financing solution that allowed...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Derbyshire Building Society, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance
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- Skipton Building Society Secures Against Authorised Device Access and Malware With Reflex Disknet Pro
- The Skipton is the 7th largest Building Society in the UK. Founded in 1853 the Skipton has 79 branches from Aberdeen to Plymouth. In 1998 Skipton Building decided to embark upon a substantial upgrade to its IT environment, by replacing "Dumb" terminals connected to a mainframe environment, with a network...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Access, Environment, Malware, Skipton, Internet, Mainframes, Tools & Techniques, Viruses And Worms, Security, Servers, Hardware, Management
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- World's Largest Building Society Adapts and Advances With Converged Network
- Nationwide Building Society is the world's largest building society. The main challenges were Basel II Capital Accord advances standards for disaster tolerance, competitors and technologies continually raise the bar in retail financial services, multiple technology platforms increase IT cost and complexity and hinder agility and transaction and data volumes double...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Converged Network, Network, Nationwide Building Society, Basel II, Call Centers, Servers, Financial Services, It Operations, Hardware
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- Nationwide building society leaks 11m customers' data
- The Nationwide building society has said it will be tightening security after admitting that a laptop containing data on 11 million was stolen 3 months ago. The building society (Britain’s largest) has apologised and assured customers that they are not at risk of identity theft--this is contradicted by their...
- Tags: Data Loss, Data Protection, laptop computer, Nationwide Building Society, News, Security, Security Leak, Security Policy
- Blog posts 2006-11-19
- Major Building Society Powers Branch Transformation With IP Telephony
- The twin pressures of business growth and increasing competition meant that Coventry Building Society needed to adopt an innovative and cost-effective approach to investment in its contact centre and branch network. The BT-supplied Nortel solution comprises Business Communications Manager 200 with Survivable Remote Gateway software linked to the central customer...
- Tags: Telephony, Nortel Networks Corp., IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Workforce Management, Telecommunications, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Human Resources, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2006-06-14
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