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White Paper Spotlight: "IT Outsourcing Essentials" Research Series from IT Consulting Int'l

Overview Inside Volume I - "Collaboration Fundamentals: Preventing Client/Vendor Process Mismatch"

* A Process Compatibility Matrix Diagram
* Real Life Process Mismatch Examples
* Visual Aid to Decision Framework

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Publisher	IT Consulting International	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2004	Downloads	1308
Format	White Papers
Topics	Actuarial Services, Policy Document Management, Services, Online Insurance Services, Project Management, Currency Conversion, Accounting Applications, Planning and Services, Methodology, Online Banking, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Bank Management, Finance, Online Trading, Outsourcing, Economic Modeling, Software Project Management

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Un-risky Business - The role of Location Intelligence in Insurance Risk Management

Location has long been a critical element to the insurance industry. Understanding where a property is located, in relation to its risk elements, is a core factor affecting an insurance...

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Tags:
asset management

Insurance Company Determines Best Solution Through Technology Center Tests

Western & Southern Financial Group wanted to upgrade its actuarial modeling solution to take advantage of high-performance computing capabilities on the Windows operating system, but it didn't know which of...

Publisher:
Microsoft

Tags:
software engineering

White Paper Spotlight: "IT Outsourcing Essentials" Research Series from IT Consulting Int'l

Inside Volume I - "Collaboration Fundamentals: Preventing Client/Vendor Process Mismatch"

* A Process Compatibility Matrix Diagram
* Real Life Process Mismatch Examples
* Visual Aid to Decision Framework

Publisher:
IT Consulting International

Managerial Opportunism? - Evidence from Directors' and Officers' Insurance Purchases

Corporate insiders are widely acknowledged to possess superior information about future prospects for the firms they manage, and to some degree to utilize that information to their private benefit. One...

Publisher:
University of Oregon

Project Acenza for Insurance: Addressing the Needs of the Property & Casualty Insurance Industry

When distribution channels are captive, they are close to your organization, providing a high degree of control. Internal controls are established, and management reports are used in conjunction with other tools...

Publisher:
FileNET

Tech mismatch leaves m-commerce struggling

According to top security experts, the basic encryption standard currently incorporated in most internet transactions - secure sockets layer (SSL) - is not compatible with wireless transport layer security (WTLS), deployed in most handheld devices...

Channel:
Security Strategy

Devil's Advocate: C'mon, c'mon, let's work together

Objects are not simple elements, leaving a mismatch that is hard to handle. They have a quite basic compatibility problem - the trains are longer than most of the platforms. Linux has been a shot in the arm for server compatibility.

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Cynics attack NHS IT cash boost plans

His answer to this is to double government money for IT, ring fence it to guarantee it is actually spent on IT, and further central systems and protocols to ensure compatibility. The government, and Wanless, says centralisation is vital to ensure...

Channel:
IT Director

The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers

But as this is not a core feature of their business, there is a mismatch of expectations. All together this combination makes the Java Desktop System a viable Microsoft Windows alternative, with read and write compatibility to Microsoft file formats.

Devil's Advocate: The true information age

The claim is that with the aid of IT, organisations can be much better informed. There are numerous examples of customer disinformation. The apparently ever-growing volume of software designed to cause damage?

Sun's Solaris to get that Linux feeling?

But Murdock believes it would be possible to plug in such support through the use of "shim" software that could smooth over the interface mismatch. It's a tricky balance to adopt elements of Linux while preserving Solaris technology and advantages...

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