Increasing Bank Profitability and Managing Risk with Business Intelligence [ Source: Onward Systems Inc. ]
March 2009- In the wake of IndyMac and many others, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision of ....

More Profitable Decisions [ Source: QlikView ]
September 2009- Business Intelligence is not a “one-size-fits-all” category. Different approaches, including reporting, modeling and dashboarding, have been used to address the various challenges that exist across large organizations. Reporting-based technology was originally intended to answer questions that are known in advance — in a predictive fashion — with predefined views of information. But over time, a gap has emerged in addressing questions that are hard to predict and ad hoc in nature. And this is an ....

Standard Bank Seeks to Reap Benefits of Integrated Asset Management (Case Study) [ Source: Axios Systems ]
October 2006- The IT team at Standard Bank was concerned about a lack of asset information in the organization, due to the rapid growth and expansion of the bank. They wanted to know exactly what hardware had been bought and what software was installed on this throughout the company. Realizing the benefits that integrated asset management would bring, they looked for the optimum way of achieving this. Altiris was already used as the internal software deployment tool, ....

Visual Business Intelligence Tools Improve Sales & Profitability of Enterprise Software Applications [ Source: Panopticon Software ]
May 2008- Businesses suffer when their people are unable to make effective use of the data in their Process Support systems. This is a common challenge for firms since their existing BI tools are unable to provide executives and line managers with the ability to comprehend the big picture, identify problem areas, and then drill down into the details in a reasonabale amount of time. Corporations have spent enormous amounts of money over ....

Don't Waste a Crisis: Emerge a Winner by Applying Lessons from the Last Recession [ Source: Diamond Management & Technology Consultants ]
October 2008- Competitive executives should welcome recessions. In the heat of a downturn, superior companies pull away from the competition and aspiring companies can dart ahead. In order to find patterns of success and failure, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants studied more than 400 companies and their performance (relative and absolute) before, during, and after the last recession (1998–2004).

A Leading Insurance Provider Shortens Time to Market through Rules-based Testing [ Source: Virtusa Corporation ]
January 2007- Virtusa conceived an architecture and platform methodology to meet its rapidly-evolving needs and used our software testing methodology to transform the testing of rules-based applications with automated tools. As a result, our client was able to deliver high quality services 30% faster combined with cost efficiencies, by leveraging our global delivery model. Virtusa is now a strategic partner to the company, in recognition of our thought leadership, innovation and outstanding performance.