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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Emerging from the land of hype and buzzwords, portals are slowly but surely being integrated into the daily lives of a growing number of employees at credit unions and other organizations while the technology continues to shake out. That's the take from both a leading industry observer...

FORT WORTH, Texas - For one credit union in the Lone Star State, keeping a tight focus on expectations and execution has resulted in what's sometimes seen as the brass ring of financial services technology: a successful CRM deployment. Last fall, $550 million EECU deployed the Synapsys platform from its...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A seat on a panel at a technology trade show has helped a Silicon Valley startup land the nation's largest corporate CU as a user of the firm's automated information risk management system. An executive from IPLocks was on the panel earlier this year with Christofer...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - Fiserv credit union subsidiaries preach about their ability to utilize resources of their parent company to bring products to market faster - that's just what USERS did with business services. USERS has released its new Commercial Integrator solution. The backbone of the product is from Fiserv's...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Credit unions that want to increase their numbers of online bankers, and retain the "fence sitters" who do give it a try, would do well to concentrate on some basics: usability, support and security. That's the take from Forrester Research analyst Catherine Graeber in a new report...

KENSINGTON, Md. - Walk softly but carry a big firewall, and back up what's behind it. That's the word from Tim Kersnick, a self-employed IT security consultant who has spent the past several months working at Lafayette FCU in suburban Washington, D.C., but has a career in financial services IT...