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whitepaper Earning Greater Share as an Integrated Multi-Channel Retailer2008-04-01 IBM
  E-commerce volume is expected to rise more than 17% in 2008 and over 70% in the next five years. This increase will mean more consumers who expect brands to provide online and in-store shopping as a seamless, integrated experience. This IBM-sponsored Retail Systems Research study shows how to profit from the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce and new consumer trends.

Tags: Transaction Processing, E-fulfillment, Business Strategies, Transaction Management		   
whitepaper Strategic Sourcing of Transaction Processing: From the Back Office to the Boardroom2008-02-14 Boston Consulting Group
  The financial services industry is undergoing a radical transformation driven by globalization, deregulation, consolidation, and deconstruction of the vertically integrated business models common to transaction-processing businesses. In these uncertain times, unconventional business models that deconstruct traditional structures such as vertically integrated manufacturing and processing businesses are likely to offer more attractive margins and more sustainable profitability. Successful franchises will position themselves as orchestrators that use their strategic capabilities in customer relationships, distribution, and branding. They either have regional or global scope and scale, or they build scale with in-market joint ventures that pool their transaction processing. If they pursue the latter option, they may need to create a web of cross-border alliances to extend their market coverage and product lines.

Tags: Transaction Processing		   
whitepaper Operations Management in UK Financial Services2008-01-14 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		   
whitepaper PCI-DSS: Avoiding the Data Theft Disaster2007-11-28 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		   
whitepaper Releasing Resources to Support Growth - The Long-Term Benefits of Finance Transformation2007-10-01 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.		   
whitepaper Enterprise Payments Vendors: The Integration Approach to Global Payments2007-10-01 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: International Standards, E-commerce Security, Service Level Management, SLA		   
whitepaper User Registration and Login Methods0000-00-00 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 Protocols, Digital Signatures, Web Services, Best Practices		   
whitepaper Automating the Confirmation of Derivative Trades2007-09-01 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: Finance		   
whitepaper Performance Testing of Trading Applications2007-08-22 AppLabs
  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		   
whitepaper PCI DSS Compliance: An Overview2007-08-21 AppLabs
  The growth of online services to facilitate ease of use for customers to purchase goods has grown exponentially. In order to make this process easier, customers generally pay for the services or goods by credit or debit card. However, improved efficiency and convenience for the consumer mean crime has also become easier and more convenient. Criminals have become more skillful having discovered that there is a significant amount of money to be acquired with very little risk and as such, credit card fraud and identity theft have become much more common place in recent years. Network infrastructures that are utilized commercially necessitate absolute security due to the sensitive personal information which they contain.

Tags: Security Standards		   


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