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ABSTRACTS Executive Summary In this report, Microsoft and a number of its elite managed partners in financial services and insurance provide insight into some of the best practices and processes that can help your business further develop your joint alliance program. It illustrates how a number of higher profile partners are working with the Microsoft alliance team, as well as with HP and Intel, to maximize their ... Full story

About the Author Ralph Severini is a senior alliances, sales and marketing executive who has managed and developed a variety of channel and strategic partnership programs. He has managed partner relationships for companies including SunGard, Sun Microsystems and Entrust. He has constructed alliances that run the gamut from simple co-marketing through joint ventures and OEM partnerships. And he has also worked at a managerial level in financial ... Full story

TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 General Alliances Background 8 Microsoft 8... Full story

Viewpoints: An Inside Look at Innovative Business Models   The desire for increased productivity is a key driver of innovation, but it can sometimes seem at odds with another important business imperative: customer-centricity. WFS spoke with Jason Rushforth, senior vice president of CDC Software, about whether innovation, productivity, and customer-centricity can coexist. WFS: Jason, a lot ... Full story

Viewpoints: An Inside Look at Innovative Business Models   In the late 1970s, AMC, the defunct automobile maker, had an advertising slogan for their new car, the Pacer - "Suddenly it's 1980." Fast-forward to 2009. While innovations and ideas have come and gone since the Pacer was introduced, many IT systems in financial and insurance enterprises are ... Full story

Viewpoints: An Inside Look at Innovative Business Models   Jerry Seinfeld's punch line in one of his routines is "who are these people?" That is a question that every organization deploying CRM software should ask as well. But they need to know more than the who. With a plethora ... Full story

Born At Citi, Bundle Delivers a Fresh Approach Americans know they are not saving enough for retirement. They know sometimes they buy things they cannot afford. They realize that as salaries go up, so does personal spending. And they know they are not alone. But these aren't easy problems to fix. The popular personal ... Full story

MetLife Boosts Processing Power, Speed and Efficiency High-performance computing is often aimed at achieving new levels of processing power and speed. At MetLife, a new centralized high-performance computing environment and workflow process has not only achieved those goals, but has also streamlined a complex legacy environment and delivered stronger controls over actuarial models. Using Microsoft HPC ... Full story

Raymond James Empowers Advisors with Business Intelligence Tools Raymond James created a new suite of business intelligence (BI) tools that can analyze vast stores of product, client, and market data in order to help advisors continue to make fast, accurate and cost-effective decisions. The company's BI platform is based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 data management software ... Full story

Royal Bank of Scotland Introduces Customers to Experts on the Big Screen With 2200 branches, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is continually exploring ways to efficiently share expert talent among its network of RBS and NatWest branches. In early 2008 the firm decided to test the idea of allowing branches to share experts electronically. The idea ... Full story