The financial services industry deals with a commodity that is primarily electronic-money. Consequently it spends more per employee on IT than any other industry. Despite this, there is a worrying tendency for information that should be confidential to end up in the public domain. Why is this and what can be done? ...
30/01/2008 | Quocirca_-_Banks_and_DLP_-_Jan_2008.pdf | VIEW
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can benefit from the expansive use of information technology (IT) just as much as their larger counterparts. Indeed, in many cases they have to, because to trade they need to interact with business partners of all sizes and IT failure affects not just internal users but those of third parties. To this end any SMB's IT infrastructure needs to be resilient and secure. All too often it is not and when this is the case the SMB loses competitive advantage. ...
21/12/2007 | Quocirca_-_Information_security_for_SMBs__Dec_2007.pdf | VIEW
The extremely competitive nature of the financial services industry today and the changing landscape of customer expectations and their approach to investing in financial products, puts an onus on suppliers to consider how well they are dealing with new and existing customers' business transactions. This research investigates how technology is being applied to manage and improve operations. ...
26/11/2007 | Operations_Management_in_UK_Financial_Services.pdf | VIEW
Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organisations that are fundamental to core business processes. Doing this provides a competitive advantage but as more and more businesses web-enable their key business applications to achieve the same goals, ever better performance and availability across the internet needs to be achieved by the early movers to maintain their lead while satisfying the growing expectations of business users. ...
31/10/2007 | Quocirca_Oct_2007_-_Web_enabled_apps_and_the_internet.pdf | VIEW
The evolution of Blade Computing has moved from mere server consolidation to a way of managing IT assets which brings significant business benefits. This paper aims to explain those benefits to the business and IT manager, and show how blade computing can be implemented to save money and improve the way IT serves the business needs. ...
12/10/2007 | IBM_blade_report_Oct_2007_final_v1.1.pdf | VIEW
Knowledge of the location of customers, property, products or any other asset is invaluable intelligence for improving competitive advantage and operational efficiency. However, despite the proliferation of data that businesses generate today, the potential value of this location dimension is often overlooked in the business intelligence process. With enterprises having access to ever greater volumes of historic data, to get maximum value from it they need to make use of the location element in order to drive deeper business insights to improve competitiveness and business performance. ...
01/10/2007 | PB_MapInfo_Location_Intelligence.pdf | VIEW
A sound IT infrastructure is fundamental to today's businesses and when that infrastructure fails the consequences can be far reaching. Whether it is business-to-business, business-to-consumer or public sector organisations serving citizens, applications and the services they drive increasingly need to be available all day, every day. Many organisations find it hard to achieve such service levels. This briefing looks at some possible solutions ...
05/09/2007 | Quocirca_-_Managing_Small_Data_Centres_-_Sept_2007.pdf | VIEW
Managing information is an increasing headache that is taxing many organisations. This series of four inter-related short reports looks at how information management is important within the Telco and Finance verticals, along with how email and other ad-hoc information management is an integral issue, and how information management has to be built on a coherent platform. ...
05/09/2007 | CommVault_reports_combined.pdf | VIEW
The general public is becoming increasingly cynical about the environment claims of businesses and with much bad press around data centres, information technology (IT) is in the front line. But data centres are actually the easiest bit of IT to control and consolidating infrastructure into them can help reduce the overall energy usage of IT and, if used well, IT itself can help businesses reduce their overall carbon footprint. ...
05/09/2007 | Quocirca_-_IT_and_the_environment_-_Sept_2007.pdf | VIEW
From humble roots in basic provisioning, data centre automation has grown in response to years of unbridled server proliferation, and is now transforming the enterprise data centre ...
13/08/2007 | Symantec_DCA_end-user_final.pdf | VIEW
