SAP to play with the little guys!

By Dan G(Prof. Paul Tallon)
The packages will focus specifically on accounting inventory management, and manufacturing schedules. It will be available in two delivery formats. It can either be installed directly to a client’s server and workstations or it will be ...

Welcome everyone to the MF159/MI159 IT for Financial Services class blog at Boston College for Fall 2007. This is just the second time that we have used a blog in this class, the first time being Spring semester 2007 when we welcomed over 3,000 outside visitors to our blog.

The goal of this blog is to provide a collaborative forum for my students (and those outside the class who share an interest in this subject) to share stories and insights regarding the world of Financial Services and more particularly the role that information technology (IT) plays in shaping Financial Services.

All blogs are a work-in-progress and the information on this website is no different. Over the course of the next few weeks, beginning in early September 2007, students will be posting items of interest to this blog. This could be news reports or other items of interest that speak directly to the impact of IT on banking, insurance, real estate, consumer finance, equities trading, and so on. Students are expected to pay close attention to what their peers have posted on the blog and to make comments on what they read.

The use of this blog will hopefully prove to be a valuable learning tool for everyone in the class. By sharing our knowledge with one another through an open and interactive forum, we can learn much more both individually and as a class. Please ensure that whatever materials you post to the blog are appropriately cited. If you find an article on the web which you would like to bring to our attention, please post the exact URL with reference to where the article has come from.

Thanks everyone - let the blogging commence!