Coventry Building Society

Based in England's midlands, Coventry Building Society is a mutual retail banking, savings, mortgage and investment society owned entirely by its savers and borrowers. The society employs 1200 people and had assets exceeding GB £11 billion ($21 billion) in 2006. Coventry Building Society is the fifth largest building society in the UK. [MORE]

Reliance Mutual

Since 1911, Reliance Mutual has specialised in the provision of a wide range of financial products and services, including life assurance, pensions and investment products. The company has recently completed a major programme to re-structure and consolidate its operations, with a view to reducing costs and increasing efficiency. As part of .....[MORE]

Bankers Automated Clearing

BACS deploys the next generation of payment transfer systems on a Sun / Oracle solution comprised of 4 x Sun Fire F15K servers, Sun Cluster software for High Availability and Oracle 9i RAC

We intend to maintain our record for never having lost a payment, and our use of Sun and .....[MORE]

Where traditional law practice meets the latest Sun Technology

Commercial law firm Kingsford Stacey Blackwell (KSB) is combining the highest standards of traditional practice with the very latest technology - following the installation of a Sun Ray solution from Sun Microsystems. KSB was one of the first UK companies to pilot Sun Ray technology, with a Sun Enterprise 250 .....[MORE]

Sun + Oracle solution

In 1995, Richard Branson launched Virgin Direct, a new financial services company offering products direct to consumers. The companys initial product offering the Virgin Growth PEP proved to be so successful that within just four weeks, over £40million had been invested. Since then, the company has grown to .....[MORE]

Virgin Money

Sir Richard Branson once said that if you could run one business well, you could run any business well. It's a spirit that permeates his Virgin Group of companies, one of the most recognizable and inventive brand names in the world. The Group's enterprises span transportation, retail, entertainment, finance and .....[MORE]

Blaze of Glory

Since its introduction in late 1997, new kid on the banking block, Virgin One, has revolutionised the traditional ways of banking, to become one of the top new mortgage lenders in the UK. However, the phenomenal success and growth of the company expedited the need to upgrade its original datacentre .....[MORE]

Ford Financial: J2EE Technology-Based Architecture Drives Transformation Across Enterprise

Near Term: Architect and build an open-standards, extensible platform infrastructure to power applications that deliver services on demand to employees, dealers, and customers.

Long Term: Transform platform infrastructure from a proprietary, OS/2 environment communicating with mainframes to a platform-independent, services-driven architecture.

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London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange

In the late 1990s the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) lost its single biggest source of income - trading in the German Government Bund”. The exchanges customers moved all their business in the Bund from the trading floor at LIFFE to the Deutsche TerminBÝrse, which could, through .....[MORE]

Disaster Recovery Service Brings Peace of Mind to Sun Customers

"We already had a number of Enterprise servers , but a major client needed more processing power than those machines could provide. Rather than buy more Enterprise servers, it was more cost effective for us and our client to buy an E10000 and provide domains on that, each domain acting .....[MORE]

A Low Risk Solution for a High Risk Venture

In any new business venture, risk needs to be kept to a minimum. Yet when Omiris Networks Limited was founded, the risks were already high. The company set out to deliver a unique new service to financial institutions that would enable them to process security transactions across borders more effectively, .....[MORE]

Sun Ray Makes Business Brighter For Chelsea Financial Services

Chelsea Financial Services plc provides discounted execution-only dealing of personal investment funds, including ISAs, PEP transfers, Unit Trusts and Bonds. Thanks to a tenfold increase in its client base over the past 7 years, the company now ranks as the second largest independent discount broker within the UK.

Dealing with over .....[MORE]

A Scalable Solution for an Ambitious Company

European domination is the unashamed goal of FundsHub, a joint venture between Investia and JPMorgan (formerly the Chase Manhattan Bank). A young but fiercely ambitious company, FundsHub is ready to capitalise on the online finance revolution.

Electronic commerce is transforming the retail investment business for fund managers, savings product providers and .....[MORE]

Dexterus finds Sun Ray success for itself and its clients

If there is any one sector of business where it is vital to have mission critical resilience in IT systems, it is in the provision of financial services. With transactions often worth hundreds of millions of pounds taking place every hour, the networks must be the most robust available.

Nowhere is .....[MORE]

Disaster Recovery Service Brings Peace of Mind to Sun Customers

"We already had a number of Enterprise servers , but a major client needed more processing power than those machines could provide. Rather than buy more Enterprise servers, it was more cost effective for us and our client to buy an E10000 and provide domains on that, each domain acting .....[MORE]