Lockbox banking is arguably an indispensable part of doing business in the modern global economy. Banks provide localised lockboxes to receive remittance payments from customers, then collect and process the payments, typically on a daily basis. Particularly for large multinational companies, lockboxes offer substantial benefits, from expediting deposits and reducing internal processing costs to providing […]
Ever wonder about the real environmental implications of Santa doing all his work on Christmas Eve? And if he can really make all his deliveries in one night? Santa is on an incredibly tight deadline, having just 31 hours to deliver presents to the approximately 380 million children worldwide who celebrate the Christmas holiday. His […]
For years major organisations around the world have been adopting and upgrading enterprise technology solutions to improve essential business functions, most notably in HR, Finance and Sales. Recently the digital transformation has extended to the payroll function, a development that appears perfectly timed with the next key step for companies looking to improve their performance […]
Today’s compliance and environmental data management regulations are becoming increasingly strict, requiring more detailed information to satisfy directives. To meet requirements, data must be collected more frequently, meaning an increase in the volume of data that must be managed, processed and reported. As companies globalise and begin to satisfy laws in new locations, that volume […]
As the Northern Ireland Arts Council reports, a major new piece of public art will be unveiled in Belfast tomorrow, Friday,16 September, to coincide with Culture Night 2016. ‘Origin’ will become the highest positioned sculpture in Belfast, overlooking the city from Squire’s Hill in Cavehill Country Park. The unveiling of the 11-metre high sculpture marks the […]
For enterprises both large and small, bank reconciliation is a necessary yet time-consuming and difficult process. The challenges are compounded for global, multi-location retail organisations that manage multiple bank accounts across different stores and in different regions. However, modern, automated bank reconciliation software is enabling large global retailers to perform bank recs with greater accuracy in less […]
A buzzword just a few years ago, globalization is now an operational fact and a central component of any business strategy. With instant connections across borders and fewer barriers between geographic regions, we must reconsider our accepted working definition of “global,” which effectively maintains a distinction between US and international populations. As integration and process […]
Big data may be nothing new to global businesses today; however, the means for analyzing big data in payroll are relatively recent developments. Just as they have embraced the advantages of technology and automation in HR, finance, and marketing, successful multinationals are now exploring the potential that has laid right there, in their biggest data […]
How Will Greenleaf, ATAC-seq and C1 Open App are pioneering single-cell epigenetics The draw of single-cell analysis lies in scientists’ desire to understand how we, as biological systems, work. Discovery upon discovery leads to deeper questions about passive versus causal mutations, transcription mechanisms, pathway regulation, cellular function. It can get really complex, or begin to […]
How John Daley leverages mass cytometry in his 36-year career fighting against cancer One day in 1979, a young biochemistry graduate answered an ad in the Boston Globe: “For those of you who want clinical relevance in the work you’re doing, we have an immediate opening available for a graduate biophysics background or relevant experience to […]
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