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Byline: Stephen Greer Editor's Note: This commentary originally appeared, in slightly different form, on the Celent banking blog. It seems like almost weekly I'm hearing something about a new challenger [...]

Technology continues to play a growing role in the success or failure of business organizations. In many cases, technology is the major factor driving the business. However, it should be kept in mind that changes in technology and its use also entail risk, especially in the case of small- and medium-sized companies. Strategies on how to deal with technology-driven firms are presented., No longer simply a background issue, technology has become a maker of business success, and a factor that bankers must deal with. Here's an approach that works. Lending safely is [...]

After more than 20 years of mobile working and a growing use of more and more sophisticated technology, I can look back on 2015 with some deep satisfaction. Everything more [...]

When you look at the leaders of our banks, most are auditors, actuaries and accountants. Few came from marketing or technology functions. For a business run on bits and bytes, [...]

ACCORDING TO THE RECENTLY RELEASED RERC/CRE Real Estate Report for the fourth quarter of 1999, real estate has realized huge strides in operating efficiencies because of technology and the access [...]

* Emboldened by favorable economic data and a stable dollar -- or maybe just the Yankees parading past Wall Street -- stocks took off like a home run. Financials and [...]

MORE INSURERS ARE CHOOSING to buy rather than build technology solutions whenever possible. Celent Communications' latest report offers 20 questions as a guide to evaluating prospective technology suppliers. It is [...]

Financial processes and decision making have always been cumbersome and time consuming. Banks and other financial institutions have had to consume much of their customers and their own valuable time doing the necessary computations and review before arriving at a decision. The Ranier Financial Services Company has solved this problem. Using a decision support system (DSS), a combination of software products, they have been able to reduce their decision making time while improving the quality of the decisions. In implementing DSS, Ranier has established a new job function, a 'toolsmith', whose duties are to maintain communication between the various hardware and software components of DSS and the users. The value of DSS is to provide greater and better understanding of business situations.