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Wikis may be working for Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... respond quickly to market changes and demands. While in the past banks have focussed their IT attention on monolithic computing systems that automate repeatable financial processes such as mortgage or cheque processing, analysts believe that having such ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... computer hardware and software shares were among the worst drags following Intel's results. Intel microprocessors are the computing engines of about 80 per cent of the world's personal computers. In late afternoon trade, the Dow Jones industrial average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... purchase of Mannesmann in 2000, and would create a $US360 billion ($A388.04 billion) company -- roughly the same size as US computing giant Microsoft. Rio Tinto has already knocked back BHP's offer, but the world's biggest miner vowed to keep pursuing ...

Caught in the Web 2.0

Fund managers and financial planners should start using social computing tools such as wikis and blogs to engage investors and retain staff, said technology expert and Longhaus' managing director, Peter Carr. Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... caused by falls for car fuels(-12.4 per cent), fruit(-5.2 per cent), pharmaceuticals(-5 per cent) and audio visual and computing equipment(-2.7 per cent). On the other side the offsetting price increases were caused by domestic travel and accommodation ...

Suncorp-Promina merger relies on IT integration

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... inherited from its 2001 merger with GIO, while Promina's portfolio of differently branded products supported by separate computing silos adds further complexity. There are some crossover technologies however. Both Suncorp and Promina use HiPortfolio ...

CBA's new chief information officer has big ambitions

... clue, as CBA's technology is the opposite: the classic banking jumble of legacy systems reflecting an early migration to computing in the 1960s and a complex web of bolt-on systems, many of them the result of the takeover of Colonial in 2000 (and which ...

Daily economic update

... in prices over the December quarter. These were offset by falls in the costs of pharmaceuticals, car fuel, visual and computing equipment, motor vehicles and overseas holiday travel. The December quarter inflation numbers further strengthens views that ...

March quarter records highest price rises since 1995: ABS

... fees (6.9%) and electricity (5.2%). Partially offsetting these increases were falls in the cost of audio-visual and computing equipment (-4.4%), furniture (-2.4%) and women's outerwear (-2%). Contributing most to the annual increases were rises in the ...