Automating Post-Trade Processes Provides Insight, Efficiencies, And Savings
[ Source: Firm58, Inc ]
August 2008-
The dramatic changes reshaping today’s securities industry are creating intense new pressures for financial services firms. Growing trade volumes combined with the proliferation of electronic exchanges have sharply increased trade complexity, driving up costs and processing demands. Globalization has forced companies to deal with multiple currencies, 24x7 trading, and a constant flow of cross-border settlements. Mergers and acquisitions have created integration nightmares, with companies struggling to connect highly fragmented legacy systems across multiple locations. Regulatory ....
From Fighting Fires To Affirming Allies: Vendor Relationship Management
[ Source: Novus Origo ]
December 2009-
Executives are spending escalating portions of their time on fewer essential business-building activities as a result of the ever more complex and costly issues that undoubtedly arise within contracted vendor relationships. By securing the services of an experienced vendor relationship manager to practice their expertise and ease executive burden, leadership will no longer feel hindered in their efforts to generate effectual change.
Inshoring: A Blueprint for Building the Most Efficient Domestic IT Services Model
[ Source: Systems In Motion ]
November 2009-
Sourcing of technology services has become truly global. American enterprises today have well over 2 million people around the world in low-cost geographies providing IT and process support services. However, this has created a fundamental gap in integrating service delivery across business, function, technology and operations competencies. Bridging this gap requires significant investment in redundant resources, governance processes, infrastructure and travel. These costs, along with the escalating cost of global resources will only ....
From Authorized To Engaged …Turning On Your VAR Channel
[ Source: MarketLink Services ]
November 2009-
Creating a productive reseller channel requires many steps, but the primary step is the conversion from authorized (signed) to engaged resellers. This is the most important, and most difficult, component to an effective channel campaign.
Test Process Assessments Move Into The Real World
[ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]
June 2009-
Freed from the classroom, frameworks for measuring the effectiveness of test organizations have been adapted to the real world, and are in use today by development teams looking to continuously improve product release readiness.
This white paper examines the fresh techniques for assessing the effectiveness of QA organizations.
Learning Management Systems: Development Strategies for the Next Generation
[ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]
January 2009-
New development strategies, standards, and tools promise to move the LMS industry forward into a “next generation” of technology and importance. This paper will interest ISV product managers and engineers of educational software products, chief learning officers, and chief technology officers of corporate universities, along with information technology personnel at the community and state college level, including developers of custom applications and application services.
Future-Forward To 802.11n
[ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]
March 2009-
The crucial interoperability of wireless network devices built around the 802.11 standard is threatened by the advent of new and faster technologies. The IEEE is trying to cope by introducing the 802.11n standard--but it’s still in draft form. Meanwhile, how can manufacturers cope with the confusion and promise surrounding 802.11’s future? The situation is outlined, and a forward path, based on strategic testing, is proposed.
A Mobile Software Quality Framework
[ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]
February 2009-
Today’s mobile software companies face a daunting challenge: How can they achieve quality while getting to market swiftly? After all, speed is king in the mobile market. New technologies are constantly being introduced; new mobile device platforms are emerging at a prodigious rate; competitors are constantly “one-upping” each other in an ever-escalating arms race of new features and interfaces. The trade-off between speed and quality in mobile software development is an illusion--or should be. A ....
Application Portfolio Management: Delivering Improved Functionality
[ Source: Lionbridge Technologies ]
November 2008-
APM is one of the best tools for evaluating, balancing, and enhancing the value of application portfolios and supporting fact-based decision making. This white paper provides a framework for implementing an APM program that will enable your organization to monitor and analyze the impact of technology and application changes; align changing business and technology objectives; reduce portfolio complexity and cost of ownership; and increase return on portfolio investment and performance.
Oracle In Hi-Def: Unique iStore Implementation Enables Intellectual Property Marketplace
[ Source: Trianz ]
September 2009-
Silicon Image, HDMI co-founder, and HDMI LLC, administrator of annual fees and royalties for the industry standard, faced the daunting task of automating the processes for calculating, tracking, invoicing, and receiving annual fee and royalty payments from HDMI adopters. After toying with the idea of a custom application, Silicon Image teamed up with Oracle to generate ideas on how its applications could be leveraged to address this business issue. After coming up with the initial ....