|
|
Article: Satellites can help launch banks into new world of client servers.(communications satellites)
- Article from:
- American Banker
- Article date:
- May 17, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 SourceMedia, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
As banks try to improve their cross-selling abilities, they face a big technological hurdle: How to share information cost-effectively among branch offices without sacrificing the speed and security of financial transactions.
Many banks, in order to meet market demands and to improve internal communications, are building client/server systems that will allow bankers or customers to access and share information over networks of personal computers.
But few bankers are comfortable with the idea of using relatively unproven client/server technology for critical applications such as teller machine transaction or branch security information. Banks have a huge ...