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Software Spending Rising ... But On Fewer Projects.

The economy has tempered IT spending within the insurance industry in recent years, as many carriers reigned in their project development to...
Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management, 09/01/03 by McKendrick, Joseph · More from publication -
Double Indemnity.(Cincinnati Equitable Insurance Co.)

At Cincinnati Equitable, Web services have opened up new avenues of connectivity. Agents can now access rating applications housed within the...
Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management, 04/01/03 by McKendrick, Joseph · More from publication -
Checking: The New Process For Processing

Check processing-long relegated to the recesses of back-office operations-is suddenly hot. Banks are taking a fresh look at how they handle and...
Bank Technology News, 12/06/02 by JOseph McKendrick · More from publication -
Should They Stay Or Should They Go

Credit-card surfing has become a national sport, but many banks are still trying to gain a sense of balance in this fast-moving game. The challenge...
Bank Technology News, 11/06/02 by Joseph McKendrick · More from publication -
How far can Microsoft spread its .NET? Will Microsoft's .NET eventually bring mainframe and midrange data into the wonderful world of Windows? (host integration).

What exactly is .NET? A consultant with a leading IT services firm I recently spoke with likened Microsoft's .NET vision to "a spell-checker for...
Enterprise Systems Journal, 11/01/02 by McKendrick, Joseph · More from publication -
Diverse groups share information assurance quandaries
Analysis Open systems require multilevel security solutions. Government agencies and commercial companies that are striving to share data...
Signal, 08/01/02 by McKendrick, Joseph · More from publication -
Avoid these 5 host integration mistakes: IT managers share the lessons learned from host-integration deployment. (host integration).

In many respects, the past decade could be called the "Big-Box" era--when big-box stores and big-box cars came to dominate our landscape. The...
Enterprise Systems Journal, 07/01/02 by McKendrick, Joseph · More from publication -
MAKING IT WORK!

Are we seeing fallout from the great "aftermath," or simply a return to normalcy? Either way, we've reached a crossroads in financial...
Bank Technology News, 06/07/02 by Joseph McKendrick · More from publication -
Mainframe shops eye Web services; Web services has an obvious place in legacy integrations, but you'll need to use caution--it's still early in the game. (host integration).

Web services seem tailor-made for large legacy IT shops--particularly because they provide the ability to wrap COBOL or other legacy code and...
Enterprise Systems Journal, 06/01/02 by McKendrick, Joseph · More from publication -
Back to the Branch

When a large Canadian bank recently decided to reduce the size of its large national call centers and move decision-making capabilities back to the...
Bank Technology News, 05/03/02 by Joseph McKendrick · More from publication


