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- Educational Institution Expands Teaching Network With New Technology Solution
- The International Management Institute of St. Petersburg, in Russia, is a tertiary education provider. To extend learning opportunities, it implemented a new, fully integrated solution that gives students and teachers remote access to training materials using a local area network. By rolling out the Microsoft Learning Gateway solutions framework, the...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Institution Streamlines Project Management With Investment Framework
- The Centennial Fund TCF has a mandate to help young Saudi Arabian citizens achieve independence through investment. TCF wants to maintain its status as a pioneer in a competitive market while covering an increasing expanse of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its growing number of branches. To achieve this,...
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- The Green Data Center for Education
- After years of being viewed by many as a concern for a relative few, environmental issues are now front-page news around the world. Faced with increasingly urgent warnings about the consequences of the projected rise in both energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions, governments, educational institutions and businesses alike are...
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Microsoft Technology Blueprint for Primary and Secondary Schools
- As the world becomes more dependent on technological advances, planning for and managing technology become more and more essential. And although prudent management of technology is important to business and governments, it is perhaps even more critical to educational institutions, which frequently have very limited resources so that the cost...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Benefits of Windows Mobile: Education
- This paper presents the experience of educational institutions of various sizes around the globe that have addressed the challenges of improving student learning while managing their tight budget and complying with additional regulatory requirements by deploying solutions based on Windows Mobile software. Each of these institutions created value by improving...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Data Driven Decisions Increase Effectiveness of Facility Management at Colleges and Universities
- An institution of higher education is a microcosm with its own water and heating facilities, recreational facilities, residences, classrooms, and offices. Assembling and storing data on so many building can be a daunting challenge. Many institutions lack a formal procedure for gathering and storing data on the condition of facilities....
- White papers 2005-07-07
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- 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...
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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...
- White papers 2007-01-19
- 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...
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- 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.
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- 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,...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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