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whitepaper Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%2009-08-01 Oracle
  Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. The challenge was to speed up slow, computer-intensive operations, such as the monthly payroll run, and enable parallel running of processes and improve the daily backup, which prevented processing or accessing online applications after 10 p.m. Greven City Council worked with Oracle Consulting to minimize the hardware the city council needed by implementing Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Clusters and achieved a marked improvement in performance across all departments as a result of facilitating the running of parallel processes, including accounting processes.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning2009-08-01 Oracle
  Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge was to build transparent, consistent, agile financial management and planning infrastructure to gain real-time enterprise performance visibility and increase competitive advantage and ensure compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) requirements. Pearson upgraded from multiple instances and versions of Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise to a single global instance of Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management and rolled out Hyperion Financial Management to 300 reporting units in 60 global locations using 80 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environments.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Electricity Authority of Cyprus Reduces Customer Query Response Times From Two Hours to Minutes2009-08-01 Oracle
  The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) wanted to establish a new system to resolve customer queries more efficiently and improve the speed and accuracy of customer billing. The challenge was to reduce the time and employee resources required to complete customer billing processes and reduce the number of visits to new customer sites when establishing new accounts. EAC worked with Oracle Consulting to implement Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing - automating customer care and billing processes to ensure that EAC is prepared for potential competition in the country's recently liberalized utilities market and accelerated bill delivery and improved the accuracy of billing information.

Tags: Financial Services		   
whitepaper Extra Security Layer Gives Banca Popolare Di Sondrio (SUISSE) Competitive Edge2009-08-01 RSA Security
  Since its foundation in 1871, Banca Popolare di Sondrio has grown from being a small Italian bank to employing 2,300 people in 262 branches. The challenge was that it was keen to show customers that security measures were up-to-date, providing peace of mind that their savings and investments were safe and although the bank has experienced little interference from hackers, it wanted to take preemptive steps to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. Custom-made e-banking solution from ISYS, a provider of banking software, utilizing RSA SecurID and RSA SecurID On-demand Authenticator and offers secure e-banking for customers, as well as an extra security layer for high value transactions.

Tags: Financial Services		   
whitepaper Customer Assurance Leads to Plunging Costs and Climbing Profits2009-08-01 RSA Security
  The company is one of the largest financial organisations in Europe with 40 million customers, over 10,000 branches and an operating profit of over $5 billion ($7 bn). The challenge was that organization needed to guarantee customer confidence in order to ensure adoption of online banking services and failure to do so mean that realization of operating cost reduction and customer growth would not materialize. It deployed RSA SecurID tokens, which also includes RSA Authentication Manager software that enables rigorous and easy token management and the technology was initially rolled out to 60,000 employees and then to 700,000 customers.

Tags: Financial Services		   
whitepaper 8 Strategies to Transform the Economics of Retailing2009-07-24 Oracle
  Through creative strategies, enabled by powerful technology, retailers now have the unprecedented opportunity to transform the economics of their businesses. Download this FREE white paper to learn more about 8 business and technology strategies that are designed to meet today's challenges and size tomorrow's opportunity.

Tags: Internet and Web, Financial Services, Data Infrastructure, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Engineering Company Automates Processes and Reduces Costs With New Business Software2009-07-03 Microsoft
  IPSH is a major engineering company based in Malaysia. Founded in 1987, the company enjoyed rapid growth and expansion of key business areas. However the company's growth was placing a strain on its DOS-based accounting system, which it had used since its inception. Poor support and compatibility issues, as well as lengthy reporting processes and a high degree of manual work were costing IPSH in time and resources. Once the company hit RM20 million (U.S.$5,636,645) in revenue, the system could not cope with the workload and a decision was taken to find a replacement. After reviewing several options, the company selected Microsoft Dynamics GP, along with Microsoft FRx, as its accounting and financial reporting solution.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper IDBI Bank Improves Profitability With Integrated Management Accounting System2009-07-01 Oracle
  IDBI Bank was restructured into several customer-focused business units to streamline processes and improve customer service. Following the restructure, the bank needed to develop a system to better assess the performance of each business unit and take corrective action if they were not delivering adequate profit. IDBI Bank engaged Oracle Consulting to deploy a range of Oracle's Financial Services applications that enabled the bank to measure each business unit's contribution to profitability. Using these applications, the bank can determine the performance of products, customers, and branches, allowing it to devise strategies that boost revenue and overall profitability.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper OC2 Improves Efficiency of Automation Processes With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 122009-07-01 Oracle
  OC2 wanted to provide the small business with a reliable, affordable, and comprehensive professional services automation solution for more efficient internal personnel, financial, and project and customer management and keep consultants' timesheets - a critical component of the company's functions - fully up-to-date via an integrated Web-based application. The challenge was to improve total overview of all consulting projects with detailed management reporting and eliminate invoicing errors to accelerate the overall invoicing process. OC2 implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in less than four months to increase information visibility and improve the efficiency of financial management, human resources, payroll, projects, and contracts.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Yum! France Expands Its Performance Analysis Capability for Its Two Major Restaurant Brands2009-07-01 Oracle
  Yum! France owns the Pizza Hut and KFC brands in France and is part of the worldwide Yum! group which was spun off from Pepsico in 1997. Yum! France wanted to enable common financial consolidation for the Pizza Hut and KFC brands and improve precision and flexibility for tracking financial performance and budgets. Yum! France created a single consolidation process with Oracle Essbase, replacing separate consolidations under Hyperion Enterprise and joint consolidation via Excel and standardized charts of accounts for both brands.

Tags: Business Functions, Office Suites