Financial services providers need to adapt to a new era of communication and may turn it into their advantage. Retail banks are feeling the heat in the form of diminishing margins on standard products and increased scrutiny by the online community. Those who stay abreast of events, however, may turn the Web 2.0 challenge to their advantage by offering new services and reaching out to new customers. Any Web 2.0 presence of a bank must be authentic and consistent with the bank’s brand and corporate culture.
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Imagine an Internet-scale Knowledge System where people and intelligent agents can collaborate on solving complex problems in business, engineering, science, medicine, and other endeavors. Its resources include semantically tagged Web sites, wikis, and blogs, as well as social networks, vertical search engines and a vast array of Web services from business processes to AI planners and domain models. Research prototypes of decentralized knowledge systems have been demonstrated for years, but now, thanks to the Web and Moore’s Law, they appear ready for prime time. Architectural concepts for incrementally growing an Internet-scale knowledge system are introduced, with descriptions of early commercial deployments in manufacturing and healthcare.
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Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 provides an unparalleled out-of-the-box experience for a small business customer. Building upon earlier versions of the small business platform, Windows Small Business Server 2008 offers easier setup and installation, simplified management, and improved network-wide security features for the small business customer.
NOTE: Windows Small Business Server 2008 is only available as a 64-bit operating system; you must have a 64-bit processor to install and use Windows Small Business Server 2008.
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