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Asian firms prep for disaster, but not well
News More businesses recognize need to establish disaster recovery strategy, but face challenges deploying such plans successfully, say industry players.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Data backup, disaster recovery, Business planning, Disaster Recovery, Plan, Survey, Small And Medium Business, Malaysia, business continuity, Business planning
Businesses hunting for gold with data mining
News Companies are gathering more data and using increasingly sophisticated tools to use data mining and modeling to improve their businesses.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Data, data mining, Fiat, RSA Security Inc., insurance, Prague, Customer, Web, car
Legacy IT holding back insurers
Insight perspective Analyst at U.K. insurer Celent explains what CIOs of firms weighed down by legacy systems, can do to update their organization.
Tags: Mainframes, Business applications, IT Governance, Insurance Company, M&A, legacy system, COBOL, Celent, Catherine Stagg-Macey, CIO
1980s computers hold up UK taxman's hunt
News Outdated computer systems have resulted in a 16.2 million backlog of people in the United Kingdom who waiting to be checked manually to see if they are paying the right amount of tax.
Tags: Taxes, Backlog, computer, insurance, tax credit, job, U.K., revenue, spokesman, tax
Patient privacy in peril?
News New U.S. legislation urging doctors and hospitals to keep electronic, rather than paper, health records may not go far enough in shielding sensitive information.
Tags: Privacy, Insurance Company, Record, medical record, public health, Privacy, electronic health record, insurance, Washington, health insurance
Revealed: Secrets to outsourcing success
News U.K. multinationals reveal their sometimes rocky relationship with outsourcing and tell how offshoring helps them survive the downturn.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Aviva Plc., Conference, IT Services, Outsourcing Company, Accenture Ltd., insurance, outsource
UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk
News Attackers access public health center Web site, then break into secured databases on the same server, stealing some 97,000 Social Security numbers.
Tags: Hacking, University, health service, Database, computer, Server, insurance, health insurance, Web Site, health care
Time ripe for Mozy and cloud backup services
News commentary EMC's Mozy is an online storage and backup-and-recovery product that mostly targets consumers, but it is now also attracting interest from business customers.
Tags: Cloud computing, Cloud, Backup, Social Media, EMC Corp., Storage, Cloud computing, Broadband, photograph, insurance
Oracle to acquire Skywire Software
News Software company sees its latest purchase of a market application specialist as a way to expand its customer base in the "strategic industry" of insurance management.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Skywire Software, software company, insurance, agent, financial, Oracle Corp., insurance application, enterprise software
Aviva insures datacenters with US$988M deal
News Insurance giant Aviva has inked a US$988 million, 10-year deal with EDS to run its U.K. datacenters.
Tags: Data centers, Hitachi Ltd., Virtualization, Aviva Plc., India, Electronic Data Systems Corp., server consolidation, insurance, Silicon.com, U.K.
Intel files US$50M suit against insurance firm
News Lawsuit follows American Guarantee and Liability Insurance's failure to pay for Intel's legal defense related to antitrust lawsuits.
Tags: Antitrust, Lawsuits, Mobile processors, Processors, Insurance Company, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., liability insurance, US$50, American Guarantee
Templates published for mass fatality incidents
Blogs Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies--a mass fatality incident, or MFI--that would re...
Tags: Asia, Hospital, Human Resources, HR professional, insurance benefit, business continuity planning, company executive, insurance, Business Continuity, benefit
Google hedges against foreign currency swings
News Search giant has started a program to protect its financial results from changes in exchange rates of foreign currencies compared with the U.S. dollar.
Tags: Search, Financial, Sales/revenue, Google Inc., CFO, foreign-exchange, insurance, financial analyst, U.K., News.com
Asia earthquakes heighten BCP need
Blogs It's hard not to notice the earthquake risk around the Pacific Rim these days. I'm not sure if the risk is actually high...
Tags: Asia, Tsunami, Hong Kong, insurance, Munich, Pacific, Business Continuity, Indonesia, Wenchuan, India
Why SOA is the 'perestroika of IT'
Insight newsmaker Independent middleware can help businesses escape the grip of 'monopolistic' software makers, and that will help the SOA provider grow, says Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich.
Tags: Innovation, Business applications, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Mainframe, SAP AG, SOA, Business, Software AG, BPM
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