Join BearingPoint Senior Manager John Gill as he explores Information Management, but more specifically, the importance of BI and Performance Management. Information Management is focused on identifying the best way to get information to the proper channels. In many instances, this involves looking at three keys areas; analytics, ...

Who would ever think that a financial services company would be innovative about marketing? Paula Drum is vice president of marketing for H&R Block. In this podcast, she explains how programs using Twitter, Second Life and other onlines venues have had impressive success. As Drum tells

In this podcast, David Miner, Sr.Director of Worldwide Financial Services Industry Solutions, provides a preview of the Financial Services Industry Executive Summit that will take place at the Symantec Vision 2008 conference. Visit vision.symantec.com/fin_vision for more information on the summit or www.symantec.com/vision.

In this podcast, David Miner, senior director of Worldwide Financial Services Industry Solutions, provides a preview of the Financial Services Industry Executive Summit that will take place at the Symantec Vision 2008 conference. Visit http://vision.symantec.com/fin_vision for more information about the summit. Also, visit www.symantec.com/vision.

Kenneth Moelis has a unique talent for translating his 25-year career on Wall Street into the kind of information that financial specialists from the Street and beyond need the most. In this keynote podcast, Moelis puts the current Wall Street climate in clear perspective, from explaining how he sees the ...

“None of us smart enough to call the bottom in financials or any other industry,” says Gary W. Parr, vice chairman at independent investment bank Lazard. Noting the value to investors of structuring deals for a few years of protection before converting to common, Parr says he’s seen funds change ...

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 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 ...

In this podcast, Barbara Mitchell, product manager for Verizon Business, provides valuable insight on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, better known as PCI. She explains what the PCI Data Security Standard means for businesses and who is affected, as well as how businesses can work toward ...

How should SmartClient technology integrate with web solutions? VP Development at Vertafore Chris Kinsman talks with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how and why SmartClient deployment of Windows Forms deliver the most value to its financial services customers in the AMS 360 product. And he ...

Mark Marshall, Managing Director of The Accend Group, provides outsourced accounting services and the financial decision making on a virtual model. Like Salesforce.com, Marshall’s organization “rents” the CFO and general accounting services on a monthly basis. One of the top sources for acquiring new customers is venture capitals. VCs ...

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 ...

This podcast previews a new Symantec blog and webcast series titled “Building Confidence in Enterprise Security.” Andre Gold head of technology risk management at ING U.S. Financial Services, and Samir Kapuria, distinguished principal at Symantec Corp., will embark on a monthly video and blog program addressing IT Compliance, IT Risk ...

When a major North American financial institution sought assistance in transforming its email environment, Procedo was chosen to lead the design and implementation of a solution based on Symantec Enterprise Vault, including the following agents and options: Discovery Accelerator, Compliance Accelerator, Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Archiving, and Microsoft Exchange Journaling. A ...

Adam Carson is sharing some of his experiences in bringing Enterprise 2.0 to Morgan Stanley. He is providing valuable insights to how large organizations can start thinking about Enterprise 2.0 strategies, adoption methods, deployments, and risks. Adam discusses the approaching “generational wave” and how a partnership with IT is critical ...

Join BearingPoint managing director Frank Mackris as he explores and explains the role IT cost transparency plays for financial institutions. As companies add new accounts and increase services like online banking, there’s a huge need for more technology expenditures. The result is often difficulty in relating those ...

Kaval Kaur is a co-founder of SUFI, an incubator and angel investment company with offices in the USA and India. Kaval and her husband Jasveer co-founded Virsa, which was later acquired by SAP for a few hundred million dollars. Virsa is part of SAP’s Governance, Risk ...

Asawari Desai is a director with TiE Global, overseeing the performance of all the 42 offices. At TiE she is responsible for defining organizational strategy and vision, branding, identifying and addressing issues concerning the organization and individual offices and evaluating opportunities to open new offices.

Prior to TiE she worked ...

The President of the Web Marketing Association, Bill Rice believes that using social media on Website should be a “no brainer.” But in many industries like financial services, social media is tough to sell. In an interview at the AdTech conference, Rice tells Marketing Voices’s Jennifer Jones about how using ...

Topping this week’s round-up is the investments received by Telisma and Komli.

Silicon Valley-based Telisma received $50 million in funding. The investors include NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia and other strategic investors.

Komli received its first round of funding from DFJ and Helion Ventures. However, Komli did ...

This podcast provides an overview of the Symantec white paper “IT Risk Management for Financial Services: An Essential Strategy for Business Success.”

The white paper can be downloaded in its entirety at:
www.symantec.com/financial

Utility computing is not a new concept, but the technologies that make it viable are finally maturing. Properly deployed, utility computing can increase server utilization rates, reduce the requirement to build overcapacity and lower operating costs. This podcast identifies key success factors for organizations hoping to capture the benefits of ...

Businesses are dealing with compliance and reporting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in many ways. Allegiance CEO and Founder Adam Edmunds saw a niche three years ago and entered the market to provide confidential communication with his Silent Whistle product. Today, the company’s offerings have evolved to provide ...