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Mutual & Federal Cuts Time To Intelligence
White Papers Mutual & Federal (M&F) is part of the Old Mutual Group and one of South Africa's leading insurance companies. M&F created a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) to help deliver to the organization a single version of the truth and to cut...
[January 5, 2007, 0:00]
Mutual Insurance IT Provider Updates Storage Infrastructure To Improve Overnight Processing By 25 Per Cent
White Papers Created in 1994, Groupement d'Interets Economiques (GIE) Groupe Nation combines the staff and IT services of a number of leading French mutual insurance companies. Due to a constant increase in the number of files, it became necessary to anticipate...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Mutual Interference In OFDM-Based Spectrum Pooling Systems
White Papers In this paper, this interaction is described mathematically providing a quantitative evaluation of the mutual interference that leads to an SNR loss in both systems. Public mobile radio spectrum has become a scarce resource while wide spectral...
[November 2, 2004, 2:00]
Mutual Anonymity Protocols For Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Systems
White Papers This paper presents several protocols to achieve mutual communication anonymity between an information requester and a provider in a hybrid P2P information-sharing environment with trusted index servers such that neither the requester, nor the...
[April 21, 2006, 1:01]
Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Ltd. Enhances Operational Efficiency And Training Initiatives
White Papers Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Ltd.a subsidiary of Old Mutual, is one of the leading insurance companies in southern Africa. The company wanted to consolidate disparate systems to support group-wide reporting and streamline staff training and...
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
Novell Case Study: Mutual Fund Company
White Papers The company is one of the largest mutual fund companies in the U.S.managing funds for millions of shareholder accounts. The fast-growing company needed a way to manage the vast array of information coming through and to convert it into meaningful...
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
Mutual Of Omaha Reduces Operating Costs And Streamlines Infrastructure With BMC Software Solutions
White Papers Mutual of Omaha asked a group of 17 senior technical experts to evaluate and recommend a solution to streamline their many technologies into one monitored system. Mutual of Omaha has achieved a high return on their investment, saving more than four...
[January 19, 2007, 0:00]
Mutual & Federal Engineers Future Agility With SAS
White Papers To that end, Mutual & Federal Insurance Company provides insurance service to the personal, commercial and corporate markets in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Using SAS Insurance Intelligence Solutions, Mutual & Federal now...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
Mutual Of Enumclaw Maximizes Return On IT Investments With VMware ESX Server
White Papers Few companies know the value of efficiency like Mutual of Enumclaw. By enabling the team to run multiple applications and operating systems - each in an independent partition, or virtual machine - on the same physical hardware, VMware software had...
[August 2, 2005, 6:00]
Mutual Of Omaha Reduced Claims Processing Time From Two Weeks To Two Days
White Papers Founded in 1909, Mutual of Omaha is a leading U.S.financial services company renowned for its innovative insurance products and services for individuals, businesses, and groups. In the mid-90s, Mutual of Omaha was looking for ways to improve their...
[May 27, 2004, 0:00]
Mutual Authentication Protocol For Low-Cost RFID
White Papers To remove security vulnerabilities, this paper proposes a robust mutual authentication protocol between a tag and a back-end server for low-cost RFID system that guarantees data privacy and location privacy of tag bearers.
[February 17, 2006, 0:01]
An Analysis Of Mutual Fund Trading Costs
White Papers We directly estimate annual trading costs for a sample of equity mutual funds and find that these costs are large and exhibit substantial cross sectional variation. Trading costs average 0.78% of fund assets per year and have an inter-quartile...
[September 16, 2003, 0:01]
MMIHMM: Maximum Mutual Information Hidden Markov Models
White Papers This paper proposes a new family of Hidden Markov Models named Maximum Mutual Information Hidden Markov Models (MMIHMMs). It consists of the weighted linear combination of the mutual information between the hidden states and the observations and...
[April 29, 2004, 2:51]
West Bend Mutual Partners With Network Appliance, Datalink, And Vignette To Upgrade Service For Customers And Agents
White Papers West Bend Mutual Insurance Company has provided property/casualty insurance for businesses, homes, autos, and personal property since 1894. West Bend Mutual replaced both the optical jukeboxes and the prior disk cache array with NetApp storage to...
[June 30, 2007, 1:00]
Rethinking Point Of Sale Disclosure For Segregated Funds And Mutual Funds
White Papers This paper marks the latest step in the Joint Forum of Financial Market Regulators' (the Joint Forum) initiative to promote increased harmony between the regulation of segregated funds and mutual funds.
[April 20, 2005, 3:00]
Case Study: UltraBac At Work For Mutual Of Enumclaw
White Papers Mutual of Enumclaw (MoE), a provider of insurance services, is no exception. For any business, computing downtime is heavily frowned on and impacts the bottom line. Access to information for employees and agents is critical and the success of the...
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
Customer Call Center Support Created For Mutual Fund Service Company
White Papers Delaware, PFPC offers a complete range of services to mutual funds, partnerships and other pooled investment vehicles, both domestic and offshore. The challenge was to develop a scalable, automated voice response system that would help generate new...
[November 19, 2004, 23:00]
Quantifying Bluetooth Piconet Mutual Interference
White Papers This paper describes a simulation framework for quantifying Bluetooth piconet mutual interference and provides simulation results that refute the Rule of Ten, a common performance assumption regarding Bluetooth mutual interference.
[November 15, 2005, 0:00]
Medical Mutual Of Ohio Improves Customer Service, Cuts Costs, And Prepares For The Future With Avaya IP Telephony And Contact Center Solutions
White Papers Medical Mutual has been a healthcare insurance company in Ohio since 1934. The company and its IT subsidiary Antares Management Solutions needed to build a scalable, flexible communications solution to accommodate future growth and new applications...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Performance Analysis Of Bluetooth Piconets Under Mutual Interference Using Bit Error Rate
White Papers In this paper, the performance of the Bluetooth piconets under the mutual interference is analyzed. The performance under the mutual interference from a single Bluetooth interferer is analyzed at first.
[November 11, 2005, 0:00]
