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- UBS Switzerland Proves Oracle Financials Can Run the World's Largest General Ledger
- As one of the world's premiere banking institutions, UBS Switzerland has always been at the forefront of developing new financial systems and technologies. UBS's system breaks new ground in computing sophistication, adopting a multidimensional approach to accounting that enables the bank to process huge numbers of balance positions and millions...
- Tags: Accounting, Oracle Corp., Financial, Oracle Financials, UBS AG, UBS Switzerland, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Finance, Software
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- UBS Accounting Software (rar)
- UBS Accounting is the core product at UBS Corporation Sdn. Bhd. Developed in 1990, it has now become a household name in computerized accounting software, with more than 110,000 installations in Malaysia. Its simplicity to use and comprehensive reports has prompted many institutes of higher learning such as university, college...
- Tags: Asset, Software, Accounting, UBS AG, PC Mart Sdn Bhd, UBS Accounting, UBS Assets Register, Asset Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-04-22
- UBS Reduces an Expected 36-Hour Batch Window to Less Than One Hour Using the DB2 Products in the SmartDBA Family
- UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms, combining financial strength with a reputation for innovation and a global culture that embraces change. UBS needed to move to an industry-standard DB2 change management product. UBS chose to implement three solutions from the BMC Software SmartDBA family of Enterprise Data...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Window, IBM DB2, UBS AG, It Management, Banking, Databases, Enterprise Software, It service Management, Financial Services, Software, Data Management
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- UBS Reduces an Expected 36-Hour Batch Window to Less Than One Hour Using the DB2 Products in the BMC SmartDBA Family
- UBS offers products and services to its financial clients through a variety of different channels, from the traditional retail bank to sophisticated, interactive online tools. UBS wanted to meet availability demands for critical online applications during DB2 production changes, while ensuring accuracy of the data and maximizing DBA resources. UBS...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Window, IBM DB2, UBS AG, It Management, It service Management
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- Comprehensive SAP Real Estate Management Application Gives Edelweiss Competitive Lead
- Formed through a management buyout by the UBS logistics management team, Switzerland-based firm Edelweiss Facility Management AG is a leader in the real estate management sector. In the search for an IT infrastructure tailored to its requirements, Edelweiss found that the mySAP ERP application provided functionality that precisely matches its...
- Tags: SAP AG, Real Estate, Team Management, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Management, Software
- Case studies
- UBS Cultivates Stronger Customer Relationships With the Help of SAS
- UBS creates added value for its clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all of its businesses, putting advice at the heart of strong and profitable client relationships. The company expends a lot of time and effort to understand the needs and goals of clients as individuals,...
- Tags: SAS Institute, UBS AG
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- Orange Switzerland Introduces New Services and Enhances Web-Based User Experience With Prepaid Solution From Cisco and Accenture
- With telecommunications and data converging at an unprecedented pace, wireless service providers must be able to roll-out new content services to their customers quickly and seamlessly as a means of differentiating themselves from competitors and building and nurturing a loyal customer base. Launched in January 2005, OrangeClick is a subscription...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Web, Solution, Accenture Ltd., Cisco Systems Inc., Orange Switzerland
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- CIOs express surprising optimism about 2008 IT spending -- Poll: What do you think?
- A survey of CIOs by financial services giant UBS in February showed that the 2008 outlook for IT spending is surprisingly upbeat. This contradicts the dour outlook issued by Dell and Cisco recently and supports more upbeat reports from IBM, HP, and Sun. Of the 100 CIOs...
- Tags: Desktop, CIO, IT-spending, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Swiss Bank Streamlines Shareholder Voting at Annual General Meetings and Reduces Costs
- UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms. It manages assets of more than 2,600 billion Swiss Francs (U.S.$1,980 billion) and employs approximately 67,000 people worldwide. The company operates a Shareholder Services unit responsible for managing shareholder information, delivering communications, and paying dividends. Historically, this group operated manual card-based...
- Tags: Shareholder, UBS AG, Swiss Bank, Financial Accounting, Finance
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- SR Technics Switzerland Turns Data Into Knowledge With the SAS Intelligence Platform
- Safety is one of the most important aspects of the transportation industry, which is why maintenance is a prime focus of the regulatory authorities. The guidelines and laws promulgated by state bodies for the airline industry are particularly stringent. To be successful and to retain their good reputation, SR Technics...
- Tags: SAS Institute, transportation, knowledge, industry
- Case studies 2006-10-20
- Xcalia Case Study: Generali Switzerland
- Generali is a Switzerland-based retail insurer with a reputation for increasing its market share through operational and technological innovation. Its executive team knew that future growth depended on satisfying agents and customers with more powerful and productive web-based applications. Its previous data management solution had been internally developed and needed...
- Tags: Switzerland, Generali, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Quantum cryptography will be used in Switzerland elections
- Switzerland will be using quantum cryptography technology on October 21, 2007, for its parliamentary elections. Excerpt from Network World: Still considered an area of advanced research, quantum cryptography uses photons to carry encryption keys to secure communications over fiber-optic lines and can automatically detect if anyone...
- Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Corp., Quantum Cryptography, Digital Security, Security, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Easy Healthcare Billing With Perl
- Billing applications usually contain complex rules that transform raw activity into billable activity. This is especially true in healthcare where fixed prices are applied for repeated medical services. At the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, there are many applications that send billing data based on the medical and technical activities,...
- Tags: Perl, Billing, Health Care
- Book chapters
- Vogele Secures Its Systems Ready for 50 More Years of Retail Success
- Founded in 1955 and headquartered in Pfaffikon, Switzerland, Charles Vogele Group Vogele operates 788 clothing retail stores in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. The company wanted to increase security of vital business data; ensure very high availability for retail support systems; improve disaster-recovery capabilities. The company migrated to...
- Tags: Switzerland, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Vogele, Disaster Recovery, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Data Management, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Confiserie Sprungli Tastes Sweet Success With SAP and IBM on POWER5
- Confiserie Sprungli manufactures and sells some of the best-known and best-loved confectionery in Europe. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1836, and still a family-owned business, the company now has a range of restaurants, retail outlets as well as global sales. The company wanted to prepare server infrastructure for the introduction...
- Tags: SAP AG, IBM POWER5, IBM Corp., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Sales Strategy, Servers, Processors, Data Management, Sales, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
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- High Speed, Ultra Reliable Data Protection Solutions Ensures Success at Leading Swiss Telco Provider
- TDC Switzerland AG is a leading provider of telecommunications services in Switzerland, with up to 573,000 fixed network customers, 1,19m mobile services customers, 321,000 dial-up customers, and 148,000 ADSL customers. The company relies on an extensive, mixed technology infrastructure to support its communications business. By standardizing on a comprehensive portfolio...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management
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- Die Schweizerische Post Transforms Business With Expanded Market and Customer Insight
- Die Schweizerische Post Swiss Post is the second largest employer in Switzerland. It provides the public and business community with postal, payment, and passenger transport services. Die Schweizerische Post Swiss Post wanted to implement strategic reorientation in the wake of the liberalization of the postal market in Switzerland. The challenge...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Business Opportunity, Switzerland, Siebel Systems Inc., Free Trade, Finance
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Swiss Mobile Operator Delivers Hosted Direct Push e-Mail Services to All Mobile Users
- The increase in demand for mobile data services prompted mobile operator Orange Switzerland to offer real-time e-mail and Personal Information Manager PIM technology on mobile devices. Orange Switzerland worked with Microsoft and green.ch, a Microsoft Hosted Exchange service provider, to launch 'Pocket Office'. This offers users mobile data synchronisation on...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications
- Case studies
- Requirements and Technologies for Ubiquitous Payment
- The goal of this paper is to identify requirements and test technologies for ubiquitous payment (u-payment). To derive the results the project team conducted interdisciplinary innovation workshops, built demonstrators and analyzed user and UBS experiences. The paper first evaluates the key features of u-payment in comparison to mobile payment (m-payment).
- Tags: ETH Zurich, Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2004-01-05
- Photos: Solar boat trek--Switzerland to New York
- It's going to take several months, but these sailors are ready to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered boat.
- Tags: photograph, boat, New York, Switzerland
- Image galleries 2006-10-09
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