Financial Industry
The One to One Fieldbook: The Complete Toolkit for Implementing a 1To 1 Marketing Program
Known as "one-to-one" marketing, this radically new competitive strategy was introduced by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers in their first two best-selling books, The One-to-One Future and Enterprise One-to- One. One-to-one marketing focuses a firm's competitive energies less on market share and more on share of customer, enabling a firm to increase customer loyalty and improve unit margins at the same time.
The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Logical Data and Data Warehouse Designs
Proven data models that save companies' time and money developing databases and data warehouses. The Data Model Resource Book provides a common set of data models for specific functions common to most businesses, such as sales, marketing, order processing, budgeting, and accounting.
SAP Finance and Controlling
Use what you know -- this book teaches users how to use the FI/CO system by mapping it to the accounting and financial knowledge they already have. First to focus on the SAP end-user - - this integrated book/CD-ROM package is the first complete training kit for end users of SAP software.
Data Warehouses: More Than Just Mining
Data mining gets plenty of press these days, but before the data can be mined, it must be warehoused assembled, cleaned, organized, and stored. And now that vendors are introducing data warehouses on a smaller scale, even companies with limited resources can use this hot groundbreaking new study which profiles four small to medium-sized companies with data warehouses and reveals how they use this tool to get big paybacks in financial reporting and product quality information.
Financial Business Intelligence: Trends, Technology, Software Selection and Implementation
Business intelligence has recently become a word used by almost every CFO, controller and analyst. After having spent the last decade implementing Enterprise Resource Planning software and other mission-critical solutions, companies now have large databases with transactional data sitting in their computer rooms. Now, finally, the technology has reached a point where it is possible - in almost real time - to quickly and easily analyze the financial data in the corporate databases to be able to make more intelligent business decisions. This book will help financial managers understand the trends, technology, software selection and implementation of financial business intelligence (financial BI) software.
The Offering of Enterprise Data Warehouse Solutions for the Financial Sector (PDF download)
The study investigates the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) market in the European financial sector. IDC defines data warehousing as a process that organizes time-based data coming from multiple applications according to subjects meaningful to the business and driven by the need to inform decision-makers. The offering analysis includes profiles of selected leading packaged EDW solutions that are currently available for European financial institutions. In addition, a number of selected case studies on the implementation of EDW among European banking institutions complete the offering analysis.
Online Brokerages Must Focus on Customer Acquisition (PDF download)
With 36 percent of UK online users visiting financial services sites in January 2001, overall confidence and interest in online financial services is high. Traditional financial institutions (banks and building societies) dominate the list of the top 15 most trafficked sites; no online brokerages make the list.
Market Models: A Guide to Financial Data Analysis
Market Models provides an authoritative and up-to-date treatment of the use of market data to develop models for financial analysis. Written by a leading figure in the field of financial data analysis, this book is the first of its kind to address the vital techniques required for model selection and development. Model developers are faced with many decisions, about the pricing, the data, the statistical methodology and the calibration and testing of the model prior to implementation. It is important to make the right choices and Carol Alexander's clear exposition provides valuable insights at every stage.
The Data Model Resource Book, Volume 2, A Library of Data Models for Specific Industries, Revised Edition
If you’ve relied on The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition, Volume 1 (0-471-38023-7) to jump-start your system development efforts, then you know that using a library of proven data models and data warehouse designs can produce huge savings in development costs. But what about the unique needs of your industry?
Industry-Specific ERP Systems: Integrating Information and Business Processes in the Enterprise
Written from a business rather than a technical perspective this book explores the logic behind ERP. It emphasizes application modules and their business implications considering and specifying the differences between sectors of the industry. The author uses case studies to capture and illustrate best practices. He discusses fundamentals, concepts, functions, components, and all relevant aspects of the topic focusing on integrating information and business processes in the total enterprise and in the supply chain. Included is a CD-ROM with screen shots of real industry-specific systems, action notes, definitions, key ideas, and workflows for self-study or instruction.
Risk Management in Banking, 2nd Edition
This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect new developments in the field, the latest research, and the changing emphasis in current practice. It considers all aspects of risk management, a vital topic within the banking industry, including: asset liability management, risk-based capital, value at risk, loan portfolio management, credit risk, market risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, fund transfer pricing, and capital allocation.
CRM in Financial Services: A Practical Guide to Making Customer Relationship Management Work
CRM has been one of the strongest areas of management focus in financial services companies all over the world in the last five years and is forecast to continue to be so for the next five years. But many companies are struggling with their CRM programs. Typically they have rushed ahead with the purchase of new CRM systems, and have not done the work to ensure that these systems will be deployed effectively. Most show weaknesses in one or more of the following areas – market analysis, marketing strategy, distribution channel management, program planning, people, processes, data management, understanding the customer’s perspective, and measurement. Written by topic experts from all over the IBM world, this book provides many ideas about how to improve CRM, shows how to avoid the main problems, and also challenges some of the conventional wisdom about what is happening in the financial services market.
