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Westpac Improves Sales Leads with Teradata-Siebel Combo

Who says competitors can’t work together? It just takes a littel pressure from the customer, in this case Westpac. Super-empower marketing with a CRM system that draws on a data warehouse from Teradata and analytics from Siebel running off transactions on Oracle, says Maree Lipscombe, senior manager of Westpac Leads, the marketing effort that has…

ABN AMRO and RBOS announcement beckons

As the bidding process comes to an end tomorrow, ABN AMRO should be announcing soon after the successful bid by Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Santander to acquire them.  I said that would make the last day of SIBOS interesting a while ago, and it’s tough luck for Barclays who kicked off the process…

ABN AMRO and RBOS announcement beckons

As the bidding process comes to an end tomorrow, ABN AMRO should be announcing soon after the successful bid by Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Santander to acquire them.  I said that would make the last day of SIBOS interesting a while ago, and it’s tough luck for Barclays who kicked off the process…

ABN AMRO and RBOS announcement beckons

As the bidding process comes to an end tomorrow, ABN AMRO should be announcing soon after the successful bid by Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Santander to acquire them.  I said that would make the last day of SIBOS interesting a while ago, and it’s tough luck for Barclays who kicked off the process…

Corporates are the Spice of the Banking Life

It’s only Wednesday and yes, I’m outta here already.  Now, you may be wondering why Chris is dumping out of SIBOS before the big Party … not my choice my friends.  I’m off to Hong Kong for another party. Sitting at Logan airport having a final Sam Adams, I reflect on this year’s SIBOS and…

Baby Spice has a tantrum – don’t bring your bags

I wondered how I could get Baby Spice into the blog, and finally the moment came this morning. Arriving early to hear Mr. Negroponte I bring my suitcase with me, because I’m flying out of here tonight (and missing the party, oh no!) and the hotel wouldn’t let me leave it there. Going through security…

Negroponte’s visions of the future

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

Negroponte’s visions of the future

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

Negroponte’s visions of the future

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

Negroponte’s visions of the future

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

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