BizAnalyst Network: Think Making Money Is Hard? Try Moving It

Monday, November 21, 2005

Think Making Money Is Hard? Try Moving It

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November 21, 2005

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In This Edition
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1. Case Study: Think Making Money Is Hard? Try Moving It
2. Supercomputers: Windows' New Best Friend
3. News: SC-integrity, Insurance Firm Team to Protect Cargo
4. I.T. Department: Edging Toward Profit

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Finance Industry Update
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1. Case Study: Think Making Money Is Hard? Try Moving It

Banking and finance use sophisticated IT to move billions
around the globe; armored-car companies use human sweat and
slips of paper to move it around the country. Loomis, Fargo
& Co. is trying to make the process more efficient, but it's
facing more complications than you usually find in a supply
chain management problem.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-2832-17-83-16222-327285-0-0-0-1

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2. Supercomputers: Windows' New Best Friend

Microsoft officials first announced its plans to enter the
HPC software market in June 2004 and said at that time that
the product would be specifically designed for customers
running scalable, parallel computing workloads in vertical
market segments such as engineering, life sciences and
finance.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-2832-17-83-16222-327288-0-0-0-1

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3. News: SC-integrity, Insurance Firm Team to Protect Cargo

An insurer mandates the use of SC-integrity's supply chain
security service as a requirement for financial protection
against cargo loss.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-2832-17-83-16222-327291-0-0-0-1

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4. I.T. Department: Edging Toward Profit

Welcome to the end of information technology as overhead.
Maybe you've thought about charging for your technology
department's services, but how would go about it? This
Premium calculator will help you determine the cost of a
single technology service--application development, for
example--and get you on the road to profitability.
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