IT Management Strategies Featured Articles

• First National Bank of Omaha’s Rajive Johri Is Teaching an Old Bank New Tricks
  First National Bank of Omaha President Rajive Johri is working to transform the 150-year-old bank's legacy environment.
• AFCU Slashes Software Testing Cycle With Compuware’s TestPartner
  AFCU cuts the software testing cycle in half with Compuware's TestPartner tool.
• Pursuing the Promise of SOA
  Though service-oriented architectures have the potential to improve IT integration and business agility, the lack of standards is hindering widespread adoption of the strategy in banking. But that's not stopping some institutions from pursuing the promise of SOA.
• RealEC Connects Lenders to Mortgage Services Providers
  Commerce Bank manages mortgage services providers via a collaborative partner network.
• BPM’s Strategic Benefits Offer Greater Agility Enterprisewide
  Banks are taking business process management beyond simple workflow automation to actually measure and optimize processes ranging from online account opening to compliance.
• As Vendors Introduce Less-Expensive Technologies, Banks Can Capitalize on the Promise of Videoconferencing and Telepresence
  By allowing participants to see and read each other's body language, telepresence and videoconferencing bolster customer confidence and satisfaction as well as enhance interoffice communications such as training sessions, meetings and interviews.
• Telepresence Allows Banks to Bring Together Global Resources While Offering Quick Return on Investment
  To best utilize telepresence to improve customer satisfaction and realize enhanced productivity, banks should consider choosing flexible configurations and multipoint capabilities.
• EVP and CIO Paul Johnson Guides BB&T Corp. in Organic Growth
  After more than a decade of focusing on M&A, BB&T Corp. looks to grow from within, and in the process is transforming the role of its IT department to become a collaborative value center.
• Business Bank of Texas Taps PCS’ Outsourced Core Banking Platform
  De novo taps PCS' outsourced core banking platform to minimize technology investments.
• Shrewd Leveraging of Technology and Staff Key to Achieving Cost-Effective AML Compliance
  By automating and streamlining procedures and data management, as well as continually enhancing employees' skills, banks can improve productivity and effectively balance compliance with cost-cutting.
• The Bank of New York Mellon Integrates Legacy Systems to Offer Customers Only the Best
  Following the merger of The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corp., cohead of treasury services integration efforts Al Briand forges a best-of-breed operations and technology portfolio while continuing to provide Treasury Services customers with innovative new products.
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  Epson's POS scanner/printer/transmission device helps MCNB Banks expand into new markets.
• BB&T Improves Online Training With EEDO’s ForceTen LCMS
  BB&T improves online training with EEDO's ForceTen Learning Content Management System.
• International Payments Framework Organization to Standardize Cross-Border Payments
  The International Payments Framework aims to bring standards to cross-border payments.
• Patent Issues a Growing Concern for Banks
  Financial services patents are moving front and center as banks seek to protect their competitive advantage while the courts and the U.S. Patents Office wrangle over the patentability of intangible banking processes.
• The Bank of San Antonio Offers Big-Bank Services With a Small-Bank Touch
  By relying heavily on outsourcing IT and partnering with technology providers, The Bank of San Antonio's Brent Given, president and CEO, helps the institution offer big-bank products and services in a community banking environment.
• Power Management Software Reduces Energy Consumption In Data Centers
  Cassatt's Active Power Management software turns off servers when idle and then turns them back on again when needed.
• Fifth Third Bank Uses Efficiency to Fund New Projects
  Fifth Third Bank drives IT efficiencies to create more IT investment dollars for future initiatives.
• Delaware County Bank & Trust Dedicates 2008 IT Budget to Technology Maintenance
  Rather than spend money on new technology, Delaware County Bank & Trust plans on maintaining systems in 2008.
• Banks Increasingly Deploying Green Technologies in Data Centers
  As energy consumption and costs continue to mushroom, banks increasingly are tapping new technologies -- such as IT asset management, virtualization and cooling solutions -- to improve the efficiency (and environmental friendliness) of their data centers.
• CommunityOne Streamlines HR Functions
  CommunityOne implements a hosted time and attendance solution to streamline HR functions.