Amid the ongoing impact of the sub-prime meltdown and the ensuing credit crunch, lenders are facing a much tougher market than has been seen for some time. Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) can enhance risk management, lending process streamlining and flexibility. 

In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so. 

Timely access to information is something retailers need to satisfy consumer needs and wants. HP’s Converged Infrastructure can improve customer service and give retailers a competitive advantage. Learn how, through the use of HP’s Converged Infrastructure, retail businesses can streamline/standardize equipment, and advance their technology. 

This paper looks at some of the advantages of implementing SOA with a suite strategy, and specifically focuses on the Oracle SOA Suite of products. Then by briefly highlighting the experiences of a major SOA installation, shows how the suite strategy paid off for one global customer. 

This video highlights the business benefits and competitive advantages of leveraging advanced application portfolio management. Learn how making sure that your business ha all the tools it needs and none of the ones it doesn't can speed responses to opportunities and threats alike. 

This paper seeks to get to the bottom of gaps in CRM initiatives, identifying specific changes that have occurred in the process, areas where it is falling short and other tidbits to consider as your strategies move forward. Read this and gain insight into the results of a survey conducted amongst 160 firms with annual revenues of $250 million. 

From the turn of the millennium until the end of 2007 MLBS (Mobile Location Based Services) had promised much, but delivered very little in terms of commercial applications. Even in Japan and South Korea, the most advanced markets for commercial MLBS, usage was disappointing. 

Read this white paper to learn how financial services firms can leverage social channels to better understand changing customer needs and interaction styles, develop products and services that address those changes, and create marketing campaigns that target these customers. 

This case study illustrates how Sun World International, a mid-sized grower in California, shifted its competitive strategy to capitalize on analytics and gain real-time insight into the competitive market. Learn how it gained a 5% reduction in harvesting costs, a 20% reduction in fuel usage and an eight-fold increase in profit per acre. 

This finantial e-guide covers the impact of real-time data and how to take advantage of new risk strategies. Articles and research focus on technological innovation, business strategy and geographical markets and is full of insights from Sybase experts and other leaders across the financial services industry. 

This document is designed to give you a better chance of successfully implementing CRM software solutions and focus is on implementing CRM software in small to medium sized organizations. 

Find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. Invite your entire team to attend – attendance for this Webcast is free! 

This month's Information Security Magazine Online cover story highlights the concern surrounding self-defending networks and explores a new approach to network security – CTOps. Also, learn how to uncover hidden opportunities that could be lurking in your overflow of data and gain an indepth look of the biggest IT giants in today's security market.