Windows in Financial Services

At RSA last month, user-centric identity was all the buzz when Microsoft announced the customers and partners who are already applying Windows CardSpace (now generally available in Windows Vista) to help realize a more confident online experience. Although this is certainly a noteworthy and exciting advancement, back-end legacy applications across the board contain vulnerabilities highlighted [...]

In 2004, HSBC launched its Common Windows Desktop initiative with a goal of reducing by 20 percent the $500 million annual cost of maintaining and supporting 300,000 desktop computers through rigorous standardization. To date, the firm has cut annual costs by $50 million to $75 million and expects that savings to increase to $100 million [...]

Goldman Sachs has invested in a .NET-based solution for intelligent content mining and has entered into a joint marketing agreement to offer the solution to its global investor client base. The solution, Information Agent Suite (IAS) from Connotate Technologies, uses intelligent information agents to gather and aggregate updates or changes in information on key Web [...]

IMS Claims Services and affiliate IMS Catastrophe Services have adopted a new XML based claims adjusting solution that helped the businesses process claims 200 percent faster while still containing costs. IMS estimates the product is 60 percent cheaper than competing solutions, and has been so happy with results that it has made the solution the [...]