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Articles from February 2007

BT Financial Deploys SharePoint to Better Track Internal IT Projects

BT Financial Group, the investment management arm of Australian banking conglomerate Westpac Banking Corporation, has saved more than $540,000 (Australian) per year through a SharePoint-based portal designed to help the company track metrics related to the IT projects built for different business units within the firm each year.

Zurich Expects to Save $2.5 Million from Risk Engineering Workstation

Zurich North America Commercial, the North American arm of insurance giant Zurich Financial Group, expects to save $2.5 million from a workstation that is helping to improve productivity of the risk engineers who inspect sites being considered for underwriting, and speed the information flow between risk engineers and underwriters.

The Peoples Bank Cuts Weeks from Annual Budgeting and Adds Monthly Updates with New Budget System

The Peoples Bank, a community bank with $390 million under management in Winder, GA, has implemented a new budgeting system that has cut its annual budget planning process from six weeks to three, and enabled the bank to publish monthly budget updates for the first time.

Emerging Technologies: A Look at the Future of Out-of-Band Security

By Donald Canning
Emerging Business Team, Microsoft

It’s getting harder and harder to gain users’ trust embracing the latest buzz surrounding Web 2.0 and online transition processing when fears of identity theft due to phishing and spoofing are on the rise. Out-of-band security and validation dramatically decreases online fraud by ensuring the rightful user is controlling the credentials used to access payment type services.