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Banking Tech-Geek

#AFP2011 – I have no direct insight after all. Some news on #cashmanagement #onlinebanking

November 9, 2011 – 8:31 pm

I did technically go to AFP this year but didn’t attend sessions. Instead I got a little exhibit hall time and connected with customers and associates.

I will say that it was well attended and the crowd was interactive. As far as cash management banking software vendors. The verdict is still out on what will happen with FundTech and BankServ combination. And the ACI – S1 combination will be tumultuous – especially for the folks at S1. Fiserv continues to invest in Corillian commercial services but they aren’t all there, the Fiserv Ecorp Product survives and BankLink chugs on. But no breakthrough there. FIS same old ADP Brokat mash up.

We have our BFS, the iteration of Magnet that is in its third gen with still superior functionality but still not part of our unified platform. Look for that in 2013, with cross platform small business solutions in 2012. We did have strong interest in our new Business Mobile Banking and the market segmentation that allows for packages and unique user experiences for small business has helped our banks gain fee income and retain customers. We will leverage the Intuit small business franchise heavily in 2012 – that will be market changing.

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#Intuit Financial Services will be at #AFP2011 with #digital #banking – sold to and provided by #banks and #credit_unions

November 6, 2011 – 9:43 am

Intuit’s online business banking and small business solutions, Business Banking and Business Financial Solutions (BFS), had great interest at the client conference and we continue to explore new avenues for our financial institution client’s business customers. From integration of new payment methods and merchant services like mobile payments to enhanced reporting tools within the administrative platform. We will be showcasing these solutions at the annual AFP Conference in Boston, MA this week.  I’ll be at our booth #2804 where we will be showcasing:

  • Business Mobile Banking – Empower your business customers to execute critical cash management tasks on the go.
  • Business Financial Solutions – Serve simple to sophisticated businesses on a single platform with financial tools that evolve as a business grows.
  • Online Payroll – Deliver the online payroll solution preferred by more than 1 million businesses within your branded Business Banking site.
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Got my #iPhone 4S and first time on #ATT data with #exchange server – better but slow vs #blackberry

October 31, 2011 – 6:02 pm

Typing this on my new iPhone via GoGo wireless at 20,000 feet without the aid of Siri speech. The soft keyboard and word spelling correction is working surprisingly well. I’m leveraging the WordPress app to make this blog entry – that creates the Tweet and FaceBook post. I’m not suffering it is actually pretty easy to highlight text, fast switch with a double click on the home button to Safari web to search or get a URL, copy and come back.

I will say that the data service for email and calendar is slow compared to blackberry on our Microsoft exchange server. Mostly I believe it’s the rich text downloading. The flexibility to use quality tools like this and other real Apps are a big plus though and after six months side by side with an iPhone 4 on my personal line it made sense to switch. The company was moving away from the blackberry as a standard anyway – only iPhones and Androids from now on.
I will dictate my next post – see how that goes.

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Insight Tech-Geek

build for your babies

October 20, 2011 – 10:01 pm

Are you building your business for your babies. Think about how they are and how you can change the way you view the way they will consume what you create. Things are different than when I was a Kid. How many generations have said that but take this case in point. I just came home from a two day business trip to Miami from Atlanta – to my three kids.

My sixteen year old was where she always is, Ballet. But I walked into a quite house – up to my 11 year old daughter’s room and knocked on the door. Three girls all giggling and dancing around – what were they doing? Making a video. Its a no brainer these days – she had her camera out and they were scripting, considering the audience – almost anyone anywhere. Its the internet folks.
And then to my 15 year old son’s room, an A student who was simultaneously studying his AP Human Geography while he ran his Minecraft server for his two friends and listened via his headphones via Skype to their banter as they built their virtual world and considered their place in the universe as teenagers.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about its the ramifications of a condensed and connected state – where we are all sharing information, having access to expression, technology is becoming ubiquitous and the way we act is almost a fluid result of what we are thinking in the moment.  To their generation its just a part of their general daily workflow. They text, talk, record, review all online realtime.  Its got its drawbacks with physical connection and expression recognition but that’s our job as parents to facilitate those interactions too. It is as it always is about balance. Then they were bookworms, twenty years ago – nerds, today geeks, goths and emos  - whatever, its general arrested development, or is it.

I embrace this – ask my kids what they need to grow and know – how they think about the way they interact is the way I think about how we can do the same in all we do -business and personal.
How has this changed your business model?

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Tech-Geek

iOS 5 on your iPad or iPhone

October 12, 2011 – 8:25 pm

iOS 5 Software Update

This update contains over 200 new features, including the following:

• Notifications
◦ Swipe from the top of any screen to view notifications in one place with Notification Center
◦ New notifications appear briefly at the top of the screen
◦ View notifications from lock screen
◦ Slide the notification app icon to the right on the lock screen to go directly to the app
• iMessage
◦ Send and receive unlimited text, photo, and video messages with other iOS 5 users
◦ Track messages with delivery and read receipts
◦ Group messaging and secure encryption
◦ Works over cellular network and Wi-Fi*
• Newsstand
◦ Automatically organizes magazine and newspaper subscriptions on Home Screen
◦ Displays the cover of the latest issue
◦ Background downloads of new issues 
• Reminders for managing to do lists
◦ Syncs with iCloud, iCal and Outlook
◦ Location-based reminders when you leave or arrive at a location for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4
• Built-in support for Twitter
◦ Sign-in once in Settings and tweet directly from Camera, Photos, Maps, Safari and YouTube
◦ Add location to any tweet
◦ View twitter profile pictures and usernames in Contacts
• Camera improvements for devices with cameras
◦ Double click the home button when device is asleep to bring up a camera shortcut on iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation)
◦ Volume Up button to take a picture
◦ Optional grid lines to line up shots
◦ Pinch to zoom in the preview screen
◦ Swipe to camera roll from preview screen
◦ Tap and hold to lock focus and exposure, iPad 2 and iPod touch (4th generation) only support exposure lock
• Photo improvements for devices with cameras
◦ Crop and rotate
◦ Red eye removal
◦ One tap enhance
◦ Organize photos into albums
• Mail improvements
◦ Format text using bold, italic, or underlined fonts
◦ Indentation control
◦ Drag to rearrange names in address fields
◦ Flag messages
◦ Mass mark messages as flagged, read or unread
◦ Customize mail alert sounds
◦ S/MIME
• Calendar improvements
◦ Year view on iPad and new Week view for iPhone and iPod touch
◦ Tap to create an event
◦ View and add event attachments
• Game Center improvements
◦ Use personal photos for your Game Center account
◦ Compare your overall achievement scores with your friends
◦ Find new Game Center friends with friend recommendations and friends of friends
◦ Discover new games with custom game recommendations
• AirPlay Mirroring for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S
• Multitasking Gestures for iPad
◦ Use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen
◦ Swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar
◦ Swipe left or right to switch between apps
• On-device setup, activation and configuration with Setup Assistant
• Software updates available over the air without tethering
• iCloud support
◦ iTunes in the Cloud
◦ Photo Stream
◦ Documents in the Cloud
◦ Apps and Books automatic download and purchase history
◦ Backup
◦ Contacts, Calendar, and Mail
◦ Find My iPhone
• Redesigned Music app for iPad
• Hourly weather forecast
• Real-time stock quotes
• Wireless sync to iTunes
• Keyboard improvements
◦ Split keyboard for iPad
◦ Improved autocorrection accuracy
◦ Improved Chinese and Japanese input
◦ New Emoji keyboard
◦ Personal dictionary for autocorrection
◦ Optionally create keyboard short cuts for frequently used words
• Accessibility improvements
◦ Option to light LED flash on incoming calls and alerts for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4
◦ Custom vibration patterns for incoming calls on iPhone
◦ New interface for using iOS with mobility-impairment input devices
◦ Option to speak a selection of text
◦ Custom element labeling for VoiceOver
• Exchange ActiveSync improvements
◦ Wirelessly sync tasks
◦ Mark messages as flagged, read or unread
◦ Improved offline support
◦ Save a new contact from a GAL service
• More than 1,500 new developer APIs
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)

* Normal carrier data rates may apply. Messages will be sent as SMS when iMessage is unavailable, carrier messaging fees apply.

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