The News Review:
- Capgemini Standardizes on Business Service Management and Service …
- Prudential Fixed Income Management Names Sara Bonesteel to Lead …
- 7thOnline Drives Optimal Localized Assortments with 7thOnline …
- Bank of America Announces Future Global Banking, Securities and …
- Geneos Wealth Management Unveils Enhanced Technology Platform for …
- Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management Division Publishes Major Climate …
- Ferndale Laboratories, Inc. Selects QUMAS for Compliance Management
Capgemini Standardizes on Business Service Management and Service …
MarketWatch
Capgemini selected BMC Software to help it respond to the growing
complexity of distributed IT environments and its clients’
increasing dependence on IT services. BMC Software’s
industry-leading BSM platform is designed to optimize data center
resources, reduce operating cost and improve business agility through
efficient IT processes. With BMC Remedy ITSM, Capgemini will consolidate multiple service
locations across the globe into two central hubs located in Europe and
the United States, resulting in improved service desk productivity and
drastically lower costs. “BMC’s Business
Service Management platform delivers broad and powerful capabilities
that will enable Capgemini to eliminate a lot of complexity from our IT
infrastructure, ultimately providing dramatically improved service
support to our internal customers and external clients,”
said Brian Bodsworth, Capgemini’s Chief
Technology Officer for Global Outsourcing.
Prudential Fixed Income Management Names Sara Bonesteel to Lead …
MarketWatch
, Oct 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Prudential Fixed Income Management has appointed structured finance
veteran Sara Bonesteel head of its efforts to identify new opportunities
for structured asset management and to develop financing strategies and
relationships for its many businesses, including its hedge strategy,
collateralized debt obligations and insurance businesses. Prudential Fixed Income Management is the primary fixed income asset
management business of Prudential Financial, Inc.
7thOnline Drives Optimal Localized Assortments with 7thOnline …
MarketWatch
7thOnline addresses these challenges with 7thOnline CMM, a suite of
solutions encompassing visual and analytical assortment planning, in-season
merchandise management, order execution, and powerful optimization,
forecasting, and collaboration engines. With the visibility and decision
support provided, merchants are able to perform their art of producing optimal
assortments driven by current trends, historical performance, financial plans,
local demand patterns, and supply constraints. Management can be confident
that strategic and financial objectives are met and that they are investing in
a merchandise mix that maximizes profit potential. 7thOnline CMM solutions and services can be implemented individually or as
an integrated package, depending on business requirements:
7thOnline OptiPlan
Retail Assortment Planning
Build and analyze optimized assortment plans — styles, colors, sizes, and
quantities by store — to meet local demand and satisfy business objectives. 7thOnline OptiBuy
Retail Assortment Execution
Execute assortment plans from product selection through order placement,
supported by comprehensive industry-specific reporting. Collaborate both
internally and with trading partners on product data and assortment plans.
Bank of America Announces Future Global Banking, Securities and …
MarketWatch
22, 2008
CHARLOTTE, N. As
previously announced, Merrill Lynch Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John
Thain will be president of the businesses.
Geneos Wealth Management Unveils Enhanced Technology Platform for …
MarketWatch
The firm’s 260 high-quality
advisors around the nation represent over $7 billion in client assets
under management. Geneos advisors offer a complete array of wealth
management products, including mutual funds, alternative investment
options, fixed and variable annuities, and life insurance company
products. For more information, visit.
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Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management Division Publishes Major Climate …
MarketWatch
“Investing
in Climate Change 2009 — Necessity and
Opportunity in Turbulent Times,” authored by
DeAM’s Global Climate Change Investment
Research team, provides a detailed analytical framework for
understanding the opportunities for investing in climate change. But it
also says that an economic downturn offers governments across the
developed world a prime opportunity to boost their spending on ‘green’
infrastructure as a stimulus to avoid severe recession. According to Mark Fulton, DeAM’s Global Head
of Climate Change Investment Research, “The
current crisis is making the necessity of tackling climate change an
opportunity to stimulate growth through investment opportunities. ”
He adds, “Encouraging investment in renewable
energy is a key focus.
Ferndale Laboratories, Inc. Selects QUMAS for Compliance Management
MarketWatch
22, 2008
JERSEY CITY, NJ, Oct 22, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) –
QUMAS, a leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions, today
announced that Ferndale Laboratories, Inc. who are committed to
creating therapies that help heal, protect and beautify the skin, has
selected QUMAS DocCompliance(TM) as its enterprise regulatory content
management system for Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, and
Manufacturing. We look forward to working with the QUMAS
team. ”
“QUMAS is providing Ferndale with an end to end solution that brings
their paper-based documents under control in DocCompliance, enabling
them to go into production with a validated system containing a
wealth of content,” said Murtuza Vasowalla, Director of Solution
Consultants at QUMAS. “Along with targeted training, this will ease
the process of user adoption across the enterprise, and will bring
the company into traceable compliance in their required timeframe. ”
About QUMAS
QUMAS is the leader in Compliance Solutions with more than 250
customer deployments, and over a decade of experience helping
companies in highly regulated industries provide a proactive
regulatory defense.