Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Laurent Mandorla as he explores the importance of virtual desktops and why they are being hailed as the wave of the future. Over the last few years, there has been a lot of buzz around virtualization, although it’s only recently that organizations have begun to embrace it. Statistics show that by the year 2011 there will be 700 million users. This is a bold prediction that has many people investing heavily in this solution as a new offering for their clients.
A virtual desktop is one where all computing happens remotely. It contains a very simple screen that allows you to replace the heavy workstations that are currently being used by the majority of companies. Virtual desktops provide a “virtual” space, in which the user can place all their application software. The most compelling argument that vendors use to convince organizations to buy in to this solution is the fact that all the data and applications are in one secure location. Someone can still manage all of their employee’s desktops, even when the computer is off.
The recent trend has been for companies to move to Windows Vista. This allows an organization to keep the same hardware, ...
In this podcast, join BearingPoint Senior Manager Andy Sanderson as he explores rogue trading and what can be done to stop it. Rogue trading is when an employee makes unauthorized trades on behalf of their company, often resulting in the loss of enormous amounts of money for that organization. ...
Join BearingPoint senior manager Bill Stotzer in exploring the challenges facing the sourcing and procurement organizations today. Many financial institutions have identified procurement cost savings and made an attempt at cost reduction. Some have achieved greater success than others. We see two primary factors contributing to ...
Join BearingPoint senior manager Randy Nease as he explores employee on-boarding and how it can be made easier for the new hire. Employee on-boarding begins when the new hire accepts a company’s offer, and continues all the way through setting their performance goals. In the midst of this, there ...
Join BearingPoint Managing Director Brian Hart to explore the seven steps to more effective performance and risk management. As a result of the recent credit crisis, organizations are faced with a challenge of making the best use of a very constrained balance sheet. BearingPoint has created a seven-step methodology to ...
Join BearingPoint director Larry Manno to explore enterprise business intelligence (BI) strategies and the opportunities it presents to an organization. Many organizations recognize the opportunity to capture performance benefits through the use of BI tools. Increasingly, they are turning to BI as the means to transform their raw data into ...
Join BearingPoint managing director Gil Mermelstein to explore Global Services Delivery and how it can reduce costs while still providing several opportunities for growth. While many companies, especially in the capital markets industry, have done a lot around realigning their global footprint, there are many organizations that are just ...
Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Kirsten Trusko in this podcast to explore consumer-directed health care and how it is affecting the mergers and acquisitions market. A rush of M&A activity is under way at the convergence of the banking, insurance and health industries. Companies in all three ...
Join BearingPoint manager Dan Draughon in understanding Commercial Equipment Leasing and the challenges with the current infrastructure. The biggest challenge an organization is seeing today is that they are still running on old legacy systems. In order to save on costs they are using outgrown systems ...
Join BearingPoint managing director Frank Mackris to explore how IT effectiveness can reduce costs while improving performance. With all the pressure on the CIO of an organization to deal with the ever-changing marketplace, now more than ever, they are turning to technology resources for assistance.
The main obstacle for an ...
Join BearingPoint managing director Peter Nikonovich to explore the Retail Banking Solution in the Enterprise Performance Improvement solution suite. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, banks are focused on ways to cut costs and still deliver services to their ...
Join BearingPoint senior manager Kevin McClafferty to understand the importance of re-engineering the commercial lending process and how it can impact your organization. When you re-engineer the current process, you open your organization up to the benefits of efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and flexibility. In light of the recent credit ...
Join BearingPoint director Joe Monti to explore the Enterprise Performance Solution and how it can affect your organization’s bottom line. With all the pressure on the economy due to the sub-prime crisis, now more than ever, people are focused on cutting costs and saving money. In an effort to ...
Join BearingPoint senior manager Chuck Elgin in understanding the fundamentals of dealing with the growing default management load. In the past, many managers were not aware of their organization’s day-to-day structure. By utilizing default management, which implements a business process management capability through a dashboard ...
Join BearingPoint senior manager Richard Birt to understand the fundamentals of Marketing Performance Management. Even though it’s starting on the small, analytics are framing the way an organization can look at their future marketing efforts. In a recent poll, CMO’s have confirmed that 25% of their ...
Join BearingPoint managing director Warren Zafrin to explore how the Internet’s ability to allow information to flow freely between countries has become the electronic border that will expand or contract depending on the privacy borders.
In 1995, Europe established a privacy law that provides a common privacy framework to protect ...
Join BearingPoint managing director Brian Hart to explore trading performance and risk management, and what has been learned from the recent credit crisis. The recent credit crisis has demonstrated to companies that there were certain capabilities they were lacking in managing their business effectively. BearingPoint ...
Join BearingPoint manager Julien Furioli to explore the benefits and importance of productizing distributing systems. In the past, a user could not determine how successful their application would be. By productizing the distributing system you are establishing a certain number of publicized elements. In turn, ...
Join BearingPoint Senior Manager, Ray Wilson, as he explores offshoring advanced analytics and how it supports businesses today.
With the recent credit crisis that has made its way across our nation, more and more companies are demanding an advanced analytics capability in their organization. Advanced analytics requires highly skilled individuals ...
Join BearingPoint manager Takashi Yoskizaki to learn how to build a business case for VoIP. Industry trends show that over the years nearly every organization has done something around utilizing VoIP. Before any new technology can be implemented, a business case needs to be developed to be presented for ...
Join BearingPoint managing director Frederic Veron to explore the battle of finding the right IT best practice for your organization. It is important to understand that there is not one universal best practice. An organization must define their framework so that the appropriate solutions can be recommended. Once ...
Join BearingPoint managing director Daryouche Behboudi in exploring disaster recovery and the importance of technology architecture. When considering the technology architecture of your company, there are many factors to look at. Besides being cost-effective, one must determine if the plan is compatible with their firm’s standards and its ...
Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Hitesh Anklesaria to explore the importance of categorizing the risks of outsourcing vendors. Whether it’s the local landscaper or the offshore technology support center, financial services organizations outsource various operations to multiple service providers all over the globe. Each vendor presents its own set of ...
Join BearingPoint Managing Director, Robert Hilliard, as he explores Mike 2.0 and the opportunities it offers to Information Management.
Mike 2.0 is a web 2.0 technique that is used to simplify the complexity of finding data. It takes out many of the steps that are currently taken to manage ...
Join BearingPoint’s Senior Manager Diane Jennings and Senior Practice Director Joe Franco of Oracle, as they explore Oracle Lease Management (OLM) and why the time is right for OLM.
Oracle Lease Management is a powerful data management tool that offers the user flexibility and the ability to be competitive ...
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