THINKING BEYOND FINANCE – USING DATA INSIGHT TO DRIVE BUSINESS CHANGE

Once you’ve gone through an efficiency drive, streamlined operations and automated processes within your business, a common question is often ‘what’s next?’  Nowhere is this truer than the finance department – as an organisational cost centre it’s frequently one of the first areas of a business to be put under pressure to cut costs and do more with less.

This process often starts with accounts payable often the most admin- intensive operation within the finance department and indeed perhaps the whole business. For many organisations, the volume of invoices being received, tracked, processed and paid requires significant time and resource to run smoothly. Automating this process and being able to scan, track, process and store invoices automatically streamlines day-to-day operations, leading to fewer errors, reduced document storage requirements, faster processing and a more efficient use of human resources. Rather than spending considerable amounts of time on processing invoices manually, AP staff are freed up to deal with out of the ordinary issues and queries and improve the service they offer.

375 MILLION CUSTOMER DATA RECORDS COMPROMISED

a global leader in data protection solutions, today released the highlights from its SafeNet Breach Level Index (BLI) for the second quarter of 2014. Between April and June of this year, there were a total of 237 breaches that compromised more than 175 million customer records of personal and financial information worldwide.  

 

For the first half of 2014, more than 375 million customer records were stolen or lost as a result of 559 breaches worldwide.  The retail industry had more data records compromised than any other industry during the second quarter, with more than145 million records stolen or lost, or 83 per cent of all data records breached.  Less than one per cent of all 237 breaches during the second quarter were secure breaches where strong encryption or authentication solutions protected the data from being used.

WHAT THE BANKS CAN LEARN FROM ONLINE FOR DATING

The banking or finance sector could learn a trick or two from the online dating industry is laughable. After all, while the former is heavily regulated, deeply complex and integral to our economy; the latter is frivolous by comparison.

Dating, as is often said, is a numbers game! And organisations such as Match.com, eHarmony and Zoosk rely on very sophisticated technology as they sift through vast customer bases to create the most compatible couples. Specially, they rely on data to build the most nuanced portraits of their members that they can, so they can find the best matches. This is a business-critical activity for dating sites – the more successful the matching, the better revenues will be.

One of the ways they do this is through graph databases. These differ from relational 

TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BANK OF MONGOLIA HAS SUCCESFULLY

Trade and Development Bank  the oldest and the largest corporate bank in Mongolia, has successfully issued the country’s first ever offshore CNH 700 million bond listed in Singapore Stock Exchange on 14 January 2014.

 

HOW BANKS ARE OVERCOMING THE IT INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGE

Advancing technology provides both a big opportunity and a big challenge to businesses in all sectors 

 

today. It has created a generation of consumers who demand ever more freedom and accessibility to services, while also granting companies an unparalleled chance to understand and engage with their customers. While it affects all aspects of business, none feel it more keenly than the world’s banks, that face constant pressure to build a customer-centric  

framework but are faced with many technical and regulatory limitations

Top 10 Best Paying CPC/PPC Ad Networks Online Publisher Business

The basic question is which PPC ad network will make you the most money or which one is the best ad network? Irrespective of what network you use or plan to use, I recommend to A/B test ad placements, size to improve your click-through-rates and eCPM

With the following ad networks, you’ll get the best possible odds of making money off ads. There’s no such thing as a sure thing, but you may as well arm yourself with the most promising ad network candidates

1 Google AdSense

 
No list of this type would be complete without mentioning the Google Ad network (The Undisputed King of PPC Ad networks or easily the best ad network). For bloggers and other website owners, the place to go is Google AdSense. One of the main benefits of AdSense is that Google works with millions of advertisers (it’s Google’s main source of income) and this makes it more likely that they can deliver ads that are both relevant and high quality which in turns leads to a higher CTR and more money for you. As the website owner, you can control just what types of ads appear on pages of your site. You’ll have access to reports and metrics which can show just how effective your website is working for you. It’s very easy to use, and there are no signup fee involved.

Many former AdSense members have also been suspended because they’ve been accused of click fraud. Of course, being accused is not the same as being guilty, but Google is both your accuser and judge. If they say they’re suspending your account, there’s not much you can do. You can appeal, but since you’re also appealing to Google… well, you get the idea. So make sure your never completely dependent on it. So despite the Google monolith, there’s space for ad network alternatives out there.

Best Touch Screen And Hybrid Laptops

Windows 8, touch-screen and hybrid laptops are suddenly back in favor, combining the best features of laptops, tablets, and even all-in-one desktops. To explore the best in all categories, check our list of the best laptops overall.

Microsoft Surface Pro 3

 

While the new Surface Pro 3 is Microsoft's best PC to date, it's more successful as a tablet than a laptop replacement.

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