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Norwegian Trade and Financing Agency Enhances IT Mobility and Security With New Operating System | 2008-03-01 | Microsoft |
| Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt is part of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry. It provides loan guarantees that make it easier for enterprises to obtain financing. An agency of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, GarantiInstituttet for EksportKreditt (GIEK) provides loan guarantees for enterprises seeking financing. GIEK needs to provide its financial analysts with mobile IT services while ensuring the safety of critical and sensitive data. GIEK chose the Windows Vista operating system to provide the solution it needed. Six months after implementation, GIEK is experiencing positive results.
Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Windows Vista |
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Reducing Total Cost of Ownership With a Corporate Reporting System for a Global Insurance Company | 2008-01-24 | MindTree Consulting |
| Rapid growth and international expansion through diverse acquisitions had increased the complexity of the enterprise. The client recognized the need to improve its business metrics through process optimization, functional integration, and increased transparency across the organization. Apart from managing interfaces with multiple applications such as GL, AP/AR, Comptroller and Regulatory, and Actuarial, the design and implementation of a solution posed several challenges, many of which were inherent given the size and scale of the operation. MindTree utilized industry standard processes such as SAP for G/L to ensure seamless integration with the overall solution. The OneShore model was employed to provide the client with a cost-effective solution with built-in scalability to meet current and future business needs.
Tags: ROI - TCO |
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Chinatrust Financial Holding Centralizes HR Management and Improves Efficiency | 2008-01-01 | Oracle |
| Chinatrust Financial Holding Company (CFHC) was founded in May 2002 as an integrated, multi-faceted financial entity. In 2001 - 02, CFHC predicted that increased domestic competition and the opening of the Chinese economy to foreign investment would bring new opportunities as well as challenges. To prepare for these changes, it instigated a project to reform human resources and other organizational processes. Today, CTFH uses a range of PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management modules from Oracle to oversee around 100,000 employees in Taiwan and overseas. By implementing a common HR platform across its operations, CTFH has improved efficiency and enabled HR departments to focus on strategic work that adds value to the business.
Tags: HR, Human Capital Management |
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At Treasury Shared-Services Center, Eight People Manage Cash and Risk in 11 Currencies for 50 Subsidiaries | 2008-01-01 | SAP |
| Fujitsu Siemens Computers wanted to manage short- and long-term liquidity and market risk in volatile global financial environment and centralize treasury (to function as service center for 50 worldwide subsidiaries). The challenge was to manage global treasury with small team and clear assessment of liquidity and risk and the effect on profit and loss. As a solution the company deployed SAP Treasury and Risk Management application. It implemented treasury software within tight deadline for single shared service worldwide to accelerate processes, improve quality, and reduced risks and costs.
Tags: Cost Control - Risk Mgmt. |
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Campbell County, Wyoming, Upgrades Existing Applications, Improves Government Operations | 0000-00-00 | Oracle |
| Campbell County, located in northeast Wyoming, is the energy capital of the nation, with 30% of the nation's coal produced in area surface mines. The company wanted to seamlessly upgrade to a new version of Oracle's JD Edwards World applications to take advantage of new functionality and consolidate five separate payroll environments into one. The challenge was to ensure minimal downtime during system upgrade and provide staff with comprehensive training on the new system. The company worked with Oracle Consulting to upgrade the county's JD Edwards World financial and human resources applications, consolidating county data and improving government operations and worked with Oracle Consulting to reduce application customizations, allowing for cleaner, faster upgrades in the future.
Tags: HR, IT HR - Staffing - Training |
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Oticon Hears the Value of Performance Management With Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 | 2007-08-27 | Microsoft Tips |
| Founded in Denmark in 1904 by a man whose wife suffered from hearing loss, Oticon A/S is a leading global manufacturer and seller of hearing aids. Oticon's finance department wanted to improve its key functions and processes, namely financial consolidation, budgeting, planning, forecasting, and reporting with an integrated solution. Oticon made a strategic decision to unify all its Performance Management solutions under Microsoft, its vendor of choice. Oticon chose a solution that would satisfy its financial consolidation requirements but also have the ability to integrate all the key finance functions it had previously identified such as budgeting and forecasting.
Tags: Storage Consolidation |
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Expanding Financial Institution Opens Bank Branches 11 Percent Faster | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Banco Compartamos (Compartamos) leads the Mexican and Latin American markets in issuing microloans to entrepreneurs. In June 2006, Compartamos received a bank charter and is developing a new set of policies, procedures, and products to ensure bank regulatory compliance. To help Compartamos in its transition and realize its growth goals, the bank is expanding its portfolio of services and opening new branches. The Methods & Procedures (M&P) Group is responsible for the development, review, approval, and distribution of bank policy including the documentation required to open and operate new branches. To develop a more secure and accurate document lifecycle, Compartamos is using the 2007 Microsoft Office system. | |||
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Frigoglass Accelerates Financial Reporting and Enhances Sales Analysis | 2007-08-01 | Oracle |
| Frigoglass is the world's leading manufacturer and solutions provider of Ice Cold Merchandisers (ICM), with operations in 14 countries across Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, India, China, and Indonesia. Headquartered in Athens, Greece, the company achieved revenues of US$540 million in FY2006, an increase of nearly 31% over the previous year. Frigoglass has streamlined its approach to financial reporting and gained greater insight into its sales process through the use of Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management - System 9, a comprehensive, Web-based financial systems software application that delivers global collection reporting and analysis in a single, highly-scalable financial management software solution.
Tags: Database Applications, Sales - Marketing |
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The ABB Group Overcomes Major Liquidity Crisis With Strategic Finance | 2007-08-01 | Oracle |
| The ABB Group, a leading global engineering company, has an illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries and has helped countries all over the world to build, develop, and maintain their infrastructures. In 2002 and 2003, ABB overcame a major liquidity crisis with the aid of Oracle's Hyperion Strategic Finance. With Hyperion Strategic Finance, ABB was able to conduct modeling and planning for its highly complex business and provide stakeholders with renewed confidence in its financial position.
Tags: Strategic Planning |
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The Stanley Works Increases Productivity and Enhances Financial Reporting Capabilities | 2007-08-01 | Oracle |
| The Stanley Works is known worldwide as a leading manufacturer of tools, hardware, and specialty hardware products for home improvement, consumer, industrial, and professional use. A long-time customer of Oracle's Hyperion software, The Stanley Works wanted to implement a Web-based data delivery system that would allow for the transmission of data with the same quality and assurances that came with the existing enterprise environment. In 2005, the company completed its migration from Hyperion Enterprise to Hyperion Financial Management. The Stanley Works now uses Hyperion Financial Management as the company's financial consolidation engine, extending flexibility and nimbleness through Web-based capabilities to over 400 users worldwide.
Tags: Upgrades and Migration |