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Localized Online Offers Help Retailers Drive Shoppers Into Stores 2008-04-01 Microsoft

While many consumers use the Web to research products, the vast majority of purchases are still made in local stores. ShopLocal enables retailers to reuse localized print advertising on the Web, helping them to draw consumers into local stores or to e commerce sites. The company's SmartCircular service replicates print circulars online in an interactive format that lets retailers reuse the merchandising and creative effort that goes into those ads, while the company's SmartMedia service delivers targeted local offers through interactive banner ads. With Microsoft software, ShopLocal can support strong demand for its services and seasonal shopping peaks and is delivering new offerings to help retailers better understand the growing influence of the Internet on in-store shopping and how they can best take advantage of that trend.

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Operations Management in UK Financial Services 2008-01-14 Quocirca

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.

Tags: Transaction Management, Planning and Services

Are You Prepared? Meeting PCI and Data Security Challenges 2007-12-04 Proofpoint

Ensuring that non-public information, including personal financial information, is communicated securely is an integral part of doing business and meeting payment card industry guidelines for data security.

Register for this free, 45 minute web seminar replay (originally presented on December 4, 2007) to hear Proofpoint product expert Andres Kohn discuss the privacy, regulatory and content security issues that organizations may need to address.

View this webinar and learn about:

How PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security standards might affect your organization and your company's use of email, webmail and other electronic communications.

How identity-based encryption can provide effective protection for sensitive information without the administrative burdens, infrastructure costs and key management hassles associated with traditional public key cryptography.

Automated methods that can accurately detect and stop both inadvertent and malicious leaks of PCI cardholder data.

How to meet PCI virus scanning requirements -including the detection and removal of malware, phishing attacks and unwanted spam - using the same policy-based platform that detects and encrypts cardholder information.

How to produce automated reports to easily track and monitor activities, incidents and trends associated with your company's outbound electronic communications.

Tags: Privacy Issues, SSL - TLS, E-commerce Security, Smart Cards

PCI-DSS: Avoiding the Data Theft Disaster 2007-11-28 THALES

This new whitepaper considers the topical issue of how to ensure your customers credit and debit card information is securely stored and protected. The paper focuses on how to use cryptography to achieve PCI-DSS compliance and avoid a business threatening cardholder data theft.

Tags: International Standards, Online Trading, E-commerce Security, Best Practices

Releasing Resources to Support Growth - The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation 2007-10-01 Concur Technologies

CFO Research Services and Concur developed the hypotheses for this research jointly. This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they've realized so far through their transaction-processing improvement efforts. This survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed time and resources to pursue high-value activities like decision support and financial planning and analysis as a result of transaction-processing automation.

This study shows that transaction-processing improvements are not only valuable because they help companies reduce cost, error, and risk--they're valuable because they allow finance executives to turn their attention to the high-value activities that advance a critical organizational objective: promoting sustained, profitable growth.

Tags: Finance, Resources Mgmt.

Enterprise Payments Vendors: The Integration Approach to Global Payments 2007-10-01 Sterling Commerce

As banks define new or updated payments strategies, they are considering their technology strategies and the vendors who support them. The formulation of this strategy hinges on whether banks retain existing legacy systems, implement new payments applications, or perhaps start an enterprise-wide payments reengineering program with a combination of technology choices.

In the past, such choices were limited to a short list of vendors with applications catering to specific geographic regions or payment types, but TowerGroup has identified a broad bifurcation of solutions providers: payments framework providers and payments application providers.

In this Research Note, TowerGroup reviews the major payments framework vendors through company profiles and information on solution offerings and any relevant partnerships. Learn more about:

The nature of payments application partnerships

The International Standards Organization (ISO) 20022 payments data model

The common technology elements in the form of integration tools, business activity monitoring (BAM), and state management shared by all enterprise payments solutions possess

The fallacy of the "one-size-fits-all" approach to enterprise payments

Tags: SLA, International Standards, E-commerce Security, Service Level Management

User Registration and Login Methods 0000-00-00 AlphaToGo

Today, developers can choose among several different methods to allow users to register and gain access (login) to their Internet-based application. Although some are more popular than others, the method selected should be appropriate to the nature of the online application and the type of user expected, as well as provide for application security, data security and dynamic data filtering.

The purpose of this article is to review the most popular methods for online registration and login, the individual components of those methods, and to provide a general guide to web application developers incorporating user registration and login into their applications.

Tags: Web Services, Best Practices, Web Protocols, Digital Signatures

Automating the Confirmation of Derivative Trades 2007-09-01 IBM

Trading in derivatives continues to grow at a rapid pace. Failure to confirm derivative trading transactions in a timely manner creates considerable risks, particularly for sell-side firms. Not surprisingly, firms are seeking ways to improve their derivatives confirmation processing and thereby minimize their risk and exposure. Increased automation is critical to such efforts. This paper outlines a derivatives confirmation solution architecture designed to help financial markets firms minimize or eliminate many manual steps that often occur during the post-trade phase of OTC derivatives. Workflow management, database management, document templates, and message queuing software combine to form a cohesive architecture for managing the derivatives confirmation and trade maintenance processes.

Tags: Accounting Applications, Finance

Support PCI Security Compliance With Enhanced Solutions From IBM 2007-09-01 IBM

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) has been designed to protect the personal information of credit card holders. This paper briefly describes PCI requirements, the benefits of compliance and the penalties for noncompliance. It shows how IBM supports PCI compliance efforts through a combined offering of software, hardware and services. IBM offers compliance gap analysis, remediation, validation, ongoing testing and reporting, as well as a range of products that help organizations develop integrated, end-to-end processes that encompass each aspect of security planning, management and compliance reporting.

Tags: Security Management

Performance Testing of Trading Applications 2007-08-22 AppLabs Technologies

Trading applications are a good example of composite applications, encompassing legacy applications, third party order management systems, exchanges, middle office and back office systems. Functionality of the applications in these business ecosystems is assured through functional and multiple regression test cycles. Success of a financial services enterprise depends on the customer/end user experience which is determined by the real time performance of their trading applications. While all the determinants of performance are not in control of an enterprise, careful analysis of the technology and application stack that is within its control can help identify the performance bottlenecks and come up with recommendations for right infrastructure, configuration and tuning.

Tags: Infrastructure Management

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Title	Date Added	Company
Localized Online Offers Help Retailers Drive Shoppers Into Stores	2008-04-01	Microsoft
While many consumers use the Web to research products, the vast majority of purchases are still made in local stores. ShopLocal enables retailers to reuse localized print advertising on the Web, helping them to draw consumers into local stores or to e commerce sites. The company's SmartCircular service replicates print circulars online in an interactive format that lets retailers reuse the merchandising and creative effort that goes into those ads, while the company's SmartMedia service delivers targeted local offers through interactive banner ads. With Microsoft software, ShopLocal can support strong demand for its services and seasonal shopping peaks and is delivering new offerings to help retailers better understand the growing influence of the Internet on in-store shopping and how they can best take advantage of that trend. Tags:
Operations Management in UK Financial Services	2008-01-14	Quocirca
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. Tags: Transaction Management, Planning and Services
Are You Prepared? Meeting PCI and Data Security Challenges	2007-12-04	Proofpoint
Ensuring that non-public information, including personal financial information, is communicated securely is an integral part of doing business and meeting payment card industry guidelines for data security. Register for this free, 45 minute web seminar replay (originally presented on December 4, 2007) to hear Proofpoint product expert Andres Kohn discuss the privacy, regulatory and content security issues that organizations may need to address. View this webinar and learn about: How PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security standards might affect your organization and your company's use of email, webmail and other electronic communications. How identity-based encryption can provide effective protection for sensitive information without the administrative burdens, infrastructure costs and key management hassles associated with traditional public key cryptography. Automated methods that can accurately detect and stop both inadvertent and malicious leaks of PCI cardholder data. How to meet PCI virus scanning requirements -including the detection and removal of malware, phishing attacks and unwanted spam - using the same policy-based platform that detects and encrypts cardholder information. How to produce automated reports to easily track and monitor activities, incidents and trends associated with your company's outbound electronic communications. Tags: Privacy Issues, SSL - TLS, E-commerce Security, Smart Cards
PCI-DSS: Avoiding the Data Theft Disaster	2007-11-28	THALES
This new whitepaper considers the topical issue of how to ensure your customers credit and debit card information is securely stored and protected. The paper focuses on how to use cryptography to achieve PCI-DSS compliance and avoid a business threatening cardholder data theft. Tags: International Standards, Online Trading, E-commerce Security, Best Practices
Releasing Resources to Support Growth - The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation	2007-10-01	Concur Technologies
CFO Research Services and Concur developed the hypotheses for this research jointly. This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they've realized so far through their transaction-processing improvement efforts. This survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed time and resources to pursue high-value activities like decision support and financial planning and analysis as a result of transaction-processing automation. This study shows that transaction-processing improvements are not only valuable because they help companies reduce cost, error, and risk--they're valuable because they allow finance executives to turn their attention to the high-value activities that advance a critical organizational objective: promoting sustained, profitable growth. Tags: Finance, Resources Mgmt.
Enterprise Payments Vendors: The Integration Approach to Global Payments	2007-10-01	Sterling Commerce
As banks define new or updated payments strategies, they are considering their technology strategies and the vendors who support them. The formulation of this strategy hinges on whether banks retain existing legacy systems, implement new payments applications, or perhaps start an enterprise-wide payments reengineering program with a combination of technology choices. In the past, such choices were limited to a short list of vendors with applications catering to specific geographic regions or payment types, but TowerGroup has identified a broad bifurcation of solutions providers: payments framework providers and payments application providers. In this Research Note, TowerGroup reviews the major payments framework vendors through company profiles and information on solution offerings and any relevant partnerships. Learn more about: The nature of payments application partnerships The International Standards Organization (ISO) 20022 payments data model The common technology elements in the form of integration tools, business activity monitoring (BAM), and state management shared by all enterprise payments solutions possess The fallacy of the "one-size-fits-all" approach to enterprise payments Tags: SLA, International Standards, E-commerce Security, Service Level Management
User Registration and Login Methods	0000-00-00	AlphaToGo
Today, developers can choose among several different methods to allow users to register and gain access (login) to their Internet-based application. Although some are more popular than others, the method selected should be appropriate to the nature of the online application and the type of user expected, as well as provide for application security, data security and dynamic data filtering. The purpose of this article is to review the most popular methods for online registration and login, the individual components of those methods, and to provide a general guide to web application developers incorporating user registration and login into their applications. Tags: Web Services, Best Practices, Web Protocols, Digital Signatures
Automating the Confirmation of Derivative Trades	2007-09-01	IBM
Trading in derivatives continues to grow at a rapid pace. Failure to confirm derivative trading transactions in a timely manner creates considerable risks, particularly for sell-side firms. Not surprisingly, firms are seeking ways to improve their derivatives confirmation processing and thereby minimize their risk and exposure. Increased automation is critical to such efforts. This paper outlines a derivatives confirmation solution architecture designed to help financial markets firms minimize or eliminate many manual steps that often occur during the post-trade phase of OTC derivatives. Workflow management, database management, document templates, and message queuing software combine to form a cohesive architecture for managing the derivatives confirmation and trade maintenance processes. Tags: Accounting Applications, Finance
Support PCI Security Compliance With Enhanced Solutions From IBM	2007-09-01	IBM
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) has been designed to protect the personal information of credit card holders. This paper briefly describes PCI requirements, the benefits of compliance and the penalties for noncompliance. It shows how IBM supports PCI compliance efforts through a combined offering of software, hardware and services. IBM offers compliance gap analysis, remediation, validation, ongoing testing and reporting, as well as a range of products that help organizations develop integrated, end-to-end processes that encompass each aspect of security planning, management and compliance reporting. Tags: Security Management
Performance Testing of Trading Applications	2007-08-22	AppLabs Technologies
Trading applications are a good example of composite applications, encompassing legacy applications, third party order management systems, exchanges, middle office and back office systems. Functionality of the applications in these business ecosystems is assured through functional and multiple regression test cycles. Success of a financial services enterprise depends on the customer/end user experience which is determined by the real time performance of their trading applications. While all the determinants of performance are not in control of an enterprise, careful analysis of the technology and application stack that is within its control can help identify the performance bottlenecks and come up with recommendations for right infrastructure, configuration and tuning. Tags: Infrastructure Management