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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
JOMC 50/EIS Research Initative
This site last updated February 26, 1997


First Albany Institutional Equities Group

Background
Customer Communications
Internal Information Processing
Objectives
Implementation

Site is for customers only

Background

Institutional Equities Group: 65 professionals, 5 locations

Focus on technology.

Institutional investors pay for providing value added insights.

Investment research is highly competitive.

To succeed, need

  • Quality analysis
  • Accurate information
  • Timely information
  • Different information
  • User friendly delivery


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Dealing with the Customers

Investors most precious asset is time

Inundated with mail and faxes

Voice mail is a one way street

Email works - always get response.


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Internal Information Processing

Gather information from electronic sources

Using the Internet to find additional information from companies and products

Reports on Lotus Notes and AT&T Network Notes and PDF files.

Internal Web

Email complements fax and paper mail


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Objectives

Reduce the waste of converting electronic information into paper based information.

Provide controlled access to all published material to view and download

User friendly - not too many steps

Up-to-date information and regularly refreshed

Full-text search capability

Secure

Not MIS intensive


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Implementation

Lotus Internotes translates Notes into HTML

Firewall and Netscape server

Double password protection

Replication from inside the firewall to outside the firewall


"No idea why Netscape is worth $3.5bn!"


This web site maintained by Eric Chernoff especially for students of the UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication's JOMC 50 class. For more information, please contact one of the following:
Prof. Deb Aikat
daikat@email.unc.edu
Tom Hughes, teaching assist ant
tahughes@email.unc.edu
Mike Manning
manning1@email.unc.edu
Eric Chernoff, student coordinator
echernof@email.unc.edu