Applying automation to a revenue collections process is not as simple as bringing in new technology, proponents said. Like any other major overhaul, the project has to begin with hard questions about businesses processes and long-term strategic direction. You really need to think about this in terms of general goals and long-term process specifics, ... Once those questions are answered, then you bring in a vendor to design your system and apply the technology.
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At FIS, it is our pledge to support and maintain the technology we provide. As regulators direct financial institutions to conduct vendor risk due diligence analysis and make preparations for potential vendor failures and subsequent discontinuation of software support, we want to ensure this is an easy process for our clients. The new escrow service provides one-stop shopping for source escrow for licensed customers in one account for the bulk of the Integrated Financial Solutions division's critical applications.
FIS provides a host of services designed to help our clients manage their businesses. One way we can do that is to help them navigate the ever-increasing challenges of regulatory compliance. The introduction of our new source code escrow service will help simplify their ability to meet vendor management oversight responsibilities.
The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.
Although there are puts and takes along with substantial integration risks, we think our support of the deal will be rewarded. Cost savings and a more powerful vendor should result in a trade to at least the mid-20s our sum-of-the-parts analysis comes up with 28 per share.
Unlike traditional application integration vendors and the pure-play BI players, Information Builders has a history of offering an integrated approach to business intelligence and is the only vendor to take an incremental approach to integration. As more and more enterprises are faced with linking critical business applications such as BI, CRM and ERP, the ability to leverage these existing investments will make for more effective application output fit for business use.
Microsoft's vulnerability to the PC market reaffirms our belief that Microsoft's continued success depends on its ability to transition itself from a desktop software company to an enterprise solution vendor.
It's time to ask if the faith in this vendor is misplaced. I think we can no longer assume the best.
Most large organizations have a big investment in Symantec tools and wouldn't normally consider switching. This year, however, Symantec's products have repeatedly shown up on the list of the software with critical new security vulnerabilities. Many corporate IT managers are angry and frustrated that their security vendor is as careless as the operating system vendors in writing bad code. And Microsoft has succeeded in persuading many of them that they are far ahead of other software vendors in improving the situation for new products.
Often, the client will have unrealistic goals that the vendor will feel the need to agree to, even though the vendor has no ability to deliver.
We believe being highlighted by Gartner as a 'cool vendor' is a tremendous honor. We have worked closely with our customers to develop a continuous data availability solution that exceeds the expectations of those who are tasked with protecting and recovering mission critical applications. That input has enabled us to develop a solution that is not only easy to use and storage system agnostic, but 'cool' as well.
In this age of the Internet, with vendor alliances being formed and customer purchase decisions being made, it appears Microsoft has fallen behind in establishing its position in these emerging markets. Or, if it has, it's the best kept secret in the technology industry.
When you hit a kid, you think what if it was your son. Baseball is probably the most social sport. There's a lot of time between pitches. You could be looking at a vendor or talking to someone, and all of a sudden there's a ball or a bat coming at you.
The only way a vendor can find out that you are violating the terms of their license agreement is by monitoring your use. It seems like Big Brother.
I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.
I believe that we can complete our analysis so that we can make a technology selection and vendor selection sometime late this year.