The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a standard for the use of biometric authentication at financial institutions but banks are unlikely to invest in the technology.
Australian entrepreneur John Orrock has sold his CRM systems integration business Okere to the US arm of Fujitsu Consulting in a multi-million dollar deal.
Financial institutions in Australia are poised to follow in the footsteps of the United Kingdom, with one industry expert predicting a late 2002 rollout of banking services on interactive TV -- that’s if the technology and customer take-up takes a turn for the better.
An intensifying assault on the security of Australians' identification and financial information should push government and industry to embrace biometric technologies, a leading expert in the area said today.
Keeping a firm focus on the bottom line has always been a high priority for Australian financial services provider Pure Commerce. And it's paid off, quite literally, as the company continues to grow despite a tough economic climate.
In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.
Financial organisations are slowly embracing the notion of unified communications, but significant organisational hurdles remain
Storage heavyweight EMC has recorded Australian growth of 34 percent year on year for the second quarter 2004, in line with its parent's results, the company's Australian and New Zealand managing director, Steve Redman, said.
The National Australia Bank has taken a pre-tax writedown of AU$409 million on its software assets for the year as botched initiatives such as its notorious global enterprise resource planning project take their toll on the financial institution's full-year bottom line.
CRM might be a staid topic but unlike the Latham-Howard "great debate", at least the chief executives of two leading software companies -- Intentia and PeopleSoft -- had some pertinent views to exchange.
The PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards merger will enhance the combined entity's standing in the enterprise software space in Australia and pose a serious threat to SAP.
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