Callie Brown

Japan Corporation to Reduce Costs with Business Process Excellence

NEC Corporation aims to reduce the cost of its international sales operations by 20 percent through a business process excellence program. NEC will standardize and reduce the number of processes it uses in international operations by 80 percent. Implem... Read >

Are Disconnected Systems Holding You Back?

Do your systems and applications make it harder to do business with you? Do you need to integrate your packaged and legacy applications? Are changes to your applications painfully slow? Could your best-of-breed systems work better together? Are integratio... Read >

What to Look For in an Off-the-Shelf Metadata Registry

When purchasing an off-the-shelf metadata registry (MDR), make sure it is a ready-to-use registry based on the ISO 11179 standard, the international standard for representing metadata for an organization in a metadata registry. Also critical is that th... Read >

Two Case Studies on Managing Data

Two Case Studies on Managing Data Case study 1: One of the world's largest snack food and beverages company with products distributed in over 200 countries had these challenges: • Key process changes needed to give ownership of core entities to busi... Read >

Real-Time Analysis Of Financial Data: Part 2

Banks and other financial organizations deal with a wide range of demanding challenges, resulting from highly volatile markets, huge amounts of market data, and the growing number of financial derivates. Because of this, they must have access the latest f... Read >

Real-Time Analysis of Financial Data: Part 1

Nowadays financial enterprises are confronted with a plethora of demanding challenges, resulting from highly volatile markets, huge amounts of market data, and the growing number of financial derivates. The crucial question in providing valuable and trust... Read >

Forward Banking: The First Impression (Of Value) Counts The Most

CIMB Group, Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider, is one of Southeast Asia’s leading universal banking groups. It offers consumer, investment and Islamic banking; asset management, and insurance products and services under three main bran... Read >

The optimal way to meet the healthcare industry’s data management needs

Today’s pharmaceutical and healthcare enterprises encounter a variety of information management challenges, as well as opportunities for significantly reducing operational expenses and improving efficiencies. This article takes a closer look at the opt... Read >

A Closer Look at the Need for Live Event Data

These days, companies in virtually every industry are under constant pressure to respond quickly to change. Their customers expect reliable, on-time delivery of their services, every time. Such demands require enterprises to recognize and react to changi... Read >

Understanding the healthcare industry’s data management needs

Today’s pharmaceutical and healthcare enterprises encounter a variety of information management challenges, as well as opportunities for significantly reducing operational expenses and improving efficiencies. On the business side, these are some of the... Read >

Logistics Companies Compete Better With Live Business Insights

Logistics companies are under constant pressure to respond quickly to change. Their customers expect reliable, on-time delivery of their services, every time. At the same time, these companies need to be more energy and environmentally responsible. Such ... Read >

College Gets High Marks For Efficiency

Florida State College at Jacksonville, one of the largest baccalaureate colleges in the U.S., serves more than 73,000 students a year. It has the largest workforce development program, IT curriculum and distance learning programs in Florida. The colleg... Read >

Top-Ranked Bank Drives Innovation

AMT Bank in Russia is a universal financial institution with a regional network of 41 branches that is known for having especially high-quality customer service. AMT Bank has approximately 250,000 clients and is ranked among the Top 100 Russian banks. ... Read >

More Loans Processed Faster

Based in Germany, VR Leasing Group is a member of FinanzVerbund, a cooperative association of financial solutions providers that serves small and medium-sized businesses in Europe. The company has close to 3,000 employees, 7 billion Euros in total assets ... Read >

More Loans Processed Faster

It goes without saying that ATM machines have undue advantages for both the company and the users. The biggest advantage that ATM machines hold for business owners is that it helps them increase the revenue for their business. Recent researches have shown... Read >