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When the Discount Drug Doesn’t Work

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The most powerful four-letter word in the entire English language for retailers used to be “Sale”. If you weren’t making your numbers you could easily whack up a big, red Sale sign and watch the punters come in, in their droves.

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Blog Topics: Retail Management System

When the Discount Drug Doesn’t Work

Posted by Rick Yvanovich on

The most powerful four-letter word in the entire English language for retailers used to be “Sale”. If you weren’t making your numbers you could easily whack up a big, red Sale sign and watch the punters come in, in their droves.

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Blog Topics: Retail Management System

How online retail is shaping the store

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It was never supposed to be this way; the store and the web site were going to ignore each other and customers would trade through one or the other, not both. Yet, here we are within a few short years, recognising that on line retail is already having a profound effect on the store and it’s going to go way past Click & Collect.

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Blog Topics: Retail Management System

The Big Four: Who's Winning the Accounting Race?

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Breaking into the partnership ranks is a tougher proposition. “Partners form an elite class within these large partnerships, and only one in about 20 people belongs to this exclusive club,” Big4.com observes.
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Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software

Optimizing expense management with digital receipt filing

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An easy, cost-effective method for maximizing a company’s investment in automated expense management is the use of digital receipt filing for management of travel and entertainment (T&E) receipts.

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Blog Topics: Retail Management System, Financial Accounting Management Software

Harnessing Analytics as a Means for Innovation

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Ventana Research recently completed benchmark research on how finance departments use analytics makes clear that while they have a distinct competence in this area and execute the basics well, a majority of companies are immature in their use of advanced finance analytics. Regardless of industry or geography, few finance departments use predictive analytics or delve into important areas such as strategic profitability management.


This is of note because these undertakings are no longer difficult to pursue: With the growing availability of in-memory processing and the improved ability to work with large data sets, information technology now makes it possible for finance departments to embrace these to enhance the effectiveness with which they execute core functions.

Predictive analyticsis a powerful tool that most companies can use, but our benchmark research on finance analytics finds that only 11 percent of finance departments employ this technique. To be sure, predictive analytics typically are embraced to help plan and forecast, but they also are an especially effective monitoring tool that executives and managers could be using to focus attention on potential problems rather than always fighting fires after they’ve broken out.

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Blog Topics: Talent Management, Financial Accounting Management Software

Cloud activity to explode in 2012

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Key areas of growth in cloud activities include asset management, security monitoring, cloud service brokering, and service stacks

In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.

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Greece Crisis: How Exposed Are Asia's Banks?

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Banks in the Asia Pacific region have performed remarkably well through more than three years of financial turmoil, including the ongoing European sovereign and banking crisis.

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Blog Topics: Talent Management, Financial Accounting Management Software

Assessing the Impact of Application Virtualization

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Server virtualization gets most of the glory, but it's application virtualization that may ultimately have a more significant impact on enterprise IT architectures, supporting new modes of business and smoothing the path to the new services-oriented online structure known as the cloud.

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Bank OCBC NISP improves customer service with high application availability

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“Today, with XenApp, it takes us only two days to get a new branch ready for operation. Formerly, we would require at least seven days to install all the applications, one at a time.” Filipus H. Suwarno, Head of the Information Technology Division, Bank OCBC NISP.

 

Bank OCBC NISP, the fourth-oldest bank in Indonesia, was established in Bandung in 1941 as Bank NISP. It evolved into a solid and reliable bank, catering mainly to the small and medium enterprise (SME) segment. Bank NISP became a commercial bank in 1967, was licensed as foreign exchange bank in 1990, and listed its shares on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 1994. At the end of 2008, OCBC Bank-Singapore had become the controlling shareholder and supported Bank NISP in reaching national bank status and becoming a top-five commercial bank (excluding government and foreign banks) in Indonesia. To optimize the relationship with OCBC Bank Singapore, Bank NISP changed its name to Bank OCBC NISP in December 2008.

  • Key benefits

    • Improves speed of customer service at branch locations
    • Simplifies application upgrades and management
    • Accelerates new branch openings
  • Applications delivered

    • Office productivity tools
    • Local, custom applications for branch delivery systems
  • Networking Environment

    • Citrix XenApp running on 40 HP Blade Servers (2.5 Enclosure C7000)
    • Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003

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  • The challenge: Provide timely customer service at multiple branches
  • Implementing an application virtualization solution from Citrix
  • Branches open promptly to serve customers

 

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Blog Topics: Talent Management

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