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Banks are looking for new ways to increase profitability. Enabling mobile bill payment is a huge opportunity to forge stronger and more lasting bonds with their customers as a mean means to increase profitability. According to Aite Group, only about 15 percent of U.S consumers' currently pay their bills through their banks. Banks looking to seize this "85% opportunity" face considerable competition, not to mention the current difficulties in onboarding payees. Overcoming these barriers will improve banks' ability to attract and retain mobile banking users, especially the increasingly important 20- to 35-year-olds who rely on their smartphones to handle most tasks and transactions in their lives.

Security has always been a concern for IT when considering a move to the cloud. Does the provider meet industry standards for security and compliance? Is the data center secure? Is there spam and virus protection?

Anytime, anywhere customer service expectations have upended many industries - and insurance is no exception. Policyholders expect to be able to reach out at any time, through any channel, and receive a high-quality experience, whether self-servicing contact information or looking to connect with a live agent to facilitate a purchase or a claim.

To effectively reduce the risks of cyber attacks, comply with continuous monitoring requirements, and provide visibility to executives, organizations need to manage their vulnerabilities and associated risks continuously. This is required in order to match or exceed the daily rate of attacks.

For the last decade, the payments industry has rapidly become one of the most dynamic growth drivers in financial services. Traditional payment methods have evolved, new methods have been introduced and new entrants have emerged. The result is a significant increase in payment transaction volumes amidst a highly competitive and specialized industry.

Join us for this special webcast and discover how online attackers have grown more sophisticated, targeted and dangerous to any organization’s environment and the broad potential impacts they cause, ranging from internal service interruptions to devastating brand image consequences.

Are you looking to dramatically improve efficiency in your hospital? Eliminate the manual processes in your hospital and automate workflows for a better patient experience.

Modern global enterprises can no longer afford any down-time, making business continuity key to most companies. A loss of vital business data can cripple a company or even put it out of business. Software-based data replication is a technology that can be used to send changed data to one or more target systems. It provides continuous data protection and availability of systems during planned and unplanned outages.

There certainly is no shortage of hype when it comes to the term "Big Data" as vendors and enterprises alike highlight the transformative effect of building actionable insight from the deluge of data that is now available to us all. But amongst the hype, practical guidance is often lacking: why is Apache Hadoop most often the technology underpinning "Big Data"? How does it fit into the current landscape of databases and data warehouses that are already in use? And are there typical usage patterns that can be used to distill some of the inherent complexity for us all to speak a common language? And if there are common patterns, what are some ways that I can apply them to my unique situation?

Improving the transparency and efficiency of the trade lifecycle is critical in today’s fast-paced trading environment. OTC derivatives regulatory reform will present significant challenges for all market participants. With ever increasing regulatory requirements, improving the transparency and efficiency of the trade document lifecycle is critical. Those that can fully automate each step of the process to reduce risk and achieve compliance will gain a competitive edge.

For decades, firms have used ERP, CRM and other applications to automate transactional processes like ordering, payments, and shipping.

How safe are your account records, client claims, employee evaluations, patient data, trade secrets and other confidential business information?

How many wiring closets or smaller server rooms do you manage? Are they distributed in various remote sites or at Colos? Or, are you running most of your business in the Cloud?

Attend this webcast to listen to Forrester Research present the findings of their study on how SwAF leveraged IBM InfoSphere Information Server Ready to Launch for SAP Applications to successfully transform their IT landscape around a single SAP ERP environment and achieve total annual estimated benefits of ~47 million USD.

Join this webinar to hear more about the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by engaging a Mobile Enterprise Services provider to help implement a BYOD program, based on a study commissioned by IBM and conducted by Forrester Consulting. Hear guest speakers, Dave Johnson (Forrester Senior Analyst), Michelle Evangelista (Forrester Total Economic Impact Consultant), and Arthur Chiang (IBM Vice President of Mobile Services) discuss some of the benefits of engaging a Mobile Enterprise Services provider.

Offsite data replication is key to ensuring ongoing business operations, but it can be complex and costly, especially when performed over long distances.

Join us for this live webcast that will review the protections tips and findings from Neustar's recent industry survey on DDoS attacks and impact.

IT organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver new services to grow the business, support new requirements for mobile, social networking and cloud services, as well as provide the business with unique competitive advantage through better IT services. And they are expected to achieve all this with better application performance, availability, and security, and within flat or shrinking IT budgets.

In a groundbreaking study, Constellation Research surveyed 184 organizations to understand the impact of third-party maintenance on their contract negotiations with Oracle or SAP. The research reveals how third-party maintenance can play a key role in providing pricing leverage and options in overall application and maintenance contract negotiations.

Ruby on Rails with a single MySQL server is one of the fastest ways to create and deploy a world-class web app. Scaling that app is another story. Since you can add web capacity easily, the ability to scale a modern Ruby on Rails application rests solely upon the scalability of the database.

It’s clear—and has been for some time—that the aging, siloed legacy systems in place at life insurance and annuity carriers are detrimental to profitable growth. The resources needed to maintain these systems can drain carrier profitability, hinder their ability to quickly bring innovative products and services to market and keep up with escalating regulatory requirements.

Virtualization is transforming how companies run their data centers to maximize availability and business continuity.

For optimal agility in cloud compute environments, IBM Enterprise Smarter Storage offers easy scaling, high service levels for dynamic, heterogeneous workloads, and tight integration with hypervisors and, significantly, the OpenStack platform. And with the IBM XIV Storage System, IBM offers a unique architecture providing exceptional elasticity for reaping the benefits of cloud computing.

If you're planning a data integration project, it's important to determine the right data integration style you need to deliver information that is accurate, complete, timely, and in context for your target database or application. It is even more important as data sources continue to increase in number, size, complexity and velocity. Attend this webcast to develop a framework for approaching data integration in the new era of Big Data.

Join us to hear Christopher Rommel, VP of M2M and Embedded Technology at VDC, address the fundamental issues and recommendations you should consider as you adopt Agile.