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whitepaper Automation Helps Top Accounting Firm Accelerate Client Acceptance, Mitigate Risk0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Virchow Krause and Company provides a range of accounting and consulting services to clients throughout the Midwest. The firm needed a way to accurately assess potential risk when accepting new clients - especially publicly traded companies that must comply with various regulatory requirements. Paper-based client acceptance processes were inconsistent across the firm's 10 practices and could take as long as six weeks to complete. To minimize its exposure to risk and streamline its processes, Virchow Krause implemented Captaris Workflow, an automated business process management system from Captaris, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Based on the Microsoft line of server software, Captaris Workflow uses Microsoft SQL Server to manage data.

Tags: Database Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Gruppo Banca Lombarda Implements New Credit Risk Assessment to Comply With International Guidelines0000-00-00 IBM
  With more than 780 branches, 1.4 million customers and total assets under management of 68.4 billion euros (as of Dec. 31, 2004), Gruppo Banca Lombarda is one of Italy's top 10 banking groups. The challenge was to implement an Internal Ratings-Based (IRB) approach for determining credit risk that satisfies the Basel II guidelines and allows Gruppo Banca Lombarda to better ensure capital adequacy. Gruppo Banca Lombarda implemented IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V8.1, IBM System p5 and Clementine from SPSS, Inc.

Tags: Storage Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper US Fish and Wildlife Service Moves Toward 'Green' in Budget and Performance Integration0000-00-00 SAS Institute
  With a $2 billion budget and a mission to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people, the Fish and Wildlife Service delivers this mission at each regional office. Using SAS, the US Fish and Wildlife Service is set to become the first Department of Interior agency to meet a mandate designed to help federal agencies make better decisions about how to spend taxpayers' dollars. SAS Activity-Based Management is helping the Fish and Wildlife Service better integrate cost and performance data.

Tags: Knowledge and Data Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Strategic Planning, Green IT		   
whitepaper Wyeth Streamlines Customer Relations and Sales Execution to Reduce Costs0000-00-00 Oracle
  The pharmaceutical industry has long been challenged by the risk and complexity of drug development. Lately, a new challenge has emerged - just getting in to see the busy physician "Customer." Wyeth is one of the largest research-driven pharmaceutical and healthcare products companies in the world. Wyeth responded by implementing Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions to improve customer relationships and sales execution, while reducing costs.

Tags: Sales - Marketing, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Woongjin Coway Optimizes Database Availability and Drives Down IT Operational Costs With On Demand Technology0000-00-00 Oracle
  Woongjin Coway Development Inc. is riding a wave of growth in the water and air purifier industry. Woongjin's executive and IT teams realized that the organization required a robust information technology infrastructure to support and sustain its growth. In selecting a solution, the company also wanted to optimize the performance of its IT environment while limiting IT operating expenses. After careful evaluation, Woongjin selected Oracle Database as its information foundation and Oracle Technology On Demand to manage its database environment with the goal of ensuring availability while controlling IT management costs.

Tags: Database Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP Implements HR Solution to Improve Employment Experience and Cut Costs0000-00-00 Oracle
  Founded in New York City in 1931, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP is a marketplace leader for international legal services. The law firm wanted to deploy a comprehensive, automated Human Resource (HR) solution to replace a cumbersome paper-based system and provide self-service capabilities to employees around the world to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and create a paperless environment. The firm wanted to recruit top talent in a very competitive market and manage talent effectively, which is critical to the business. The law firm implemented Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management applications to streamline HR processes and effectively manage hourly and salaried employees and utilized PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management modules to provide critical information to employees and HR staff members in real time.

Tags: HR, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper VKB Takes a Proactive Approach to Risk0000-00-00 SAS Institute
  Austrian bank VKB (VolksKreditBank AG) set out to develop a simpler and faster lending process with the goal of reducing its credit risk. Facing issues of employee motivation and acceptance of the Basel II rules, the bank chose SAS for flexibility and technical support resulting in improved credit scoring and Basel II compliance.

Tags: Knowledge and Data Management, Bank Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper University of Siena Student Analyzes the Impact of Basel II on an Italian Enterprise0000-00-00 SAS Institute
  In June 2004 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued its most recent version of the Basel II Accord, designed to align capital adequacy assessment more closely with the key elements of banking risks and to provide incentives for banks to enhance their risk management by developing internal rating systems. A student in the Doctorate Program in Law and Economics at the University of Siena in Italy has been researching how banks estimate the probability of default under the Basel II proposals. The student chose SAS software to conduct his analysis.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Bank Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Woori Bank Reduces Operational Risk With SAS0000-00-00 SAS Institute
  Operational risk is an ever-present challenge of the banking industry, inhibiting performance and reducing profits as banks need to keep adequate reserves of capital to cover potential losses. But in recent years, corporate wrongdoing, high-profile fraud and major process failures have put the dangers of operational risk - and the consequences of poorly managing it - in the spotlight. Against this background, Woori Bank has become a benchmark success story in operational risk management and a reference for Korea's Financial Supervisory Service, setting the standard for other Korean banks to follow.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper SAS Underpins a Leading-Edge Risk Management System at Swiss Bank ZKB0000-00-00 SAS Institute
  Zurcher KantonalBank (ZKB) - the third-largest bank in Switzerland - finished 2004 with a balance sheet total of more than 80 billion CHF (US$66 billion). The bank continues to live up to its reputation as a risk management specialist, with profits growing at double-digit rates. They focus on three areas of risk management, credit risk, market risk, and reporting and analysis. In dealing with risk, the company knows that client representatives, line managers and other bank staff each require different types of tools. SAS helps [them] to achieve [their] business targets and to meet regulatory requirements in terms of risk management.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., ROI - TCO		   


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