And it's not just servers in the back office that can benefit from virtualisation.
The finishing touches, including new cabinetry in the back office, are under way.
Accounting data is held in the back office, which has none of the glamor or profitability of the trading operations.
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Jose Garcia-Cantera, an analyst with Salomon Brothers, an investment bank, says the foreigners often lead in driving down costs, particularly with more efficient management in the back office.
From talking with dozens of firms she concluded that the most useful driver would be the idea of reducing head count in the back office if firms can reduce head count.
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Daniel Bouton, SocGen's boss, has argued that Mr Kerviel could easily conceal the vast positions he took because he had previously worked in the back office, so was familiar with the system of controls.
By contrast, analysts expect DST to win a good chunk of the 15 million mutual fund shareholder accounts it will bid on this year as fund companies look to cut costs in the back office.
According to a banker with a close knowledge of Mr Adoboli's alleged activities, one reason why UBS failed to identify the unauthorised deals till Wednesday was that Mr Adoboli had a close knowledge of UBS's back office or administration procedures: he previously worked in the back office before becoming a trader.
Scope, the outsourcing arm of Standard Chartered, the largest foreign bank in India, has the grand aim of becoming, in effect, the back office for many of the bank's operations in 56 countries.
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The prosecution told the court that, using the skills he learnt during his time in the UBS back office, Adoboli entered false information into UBS's computer systems to conceal the enormous risks he was taking.
But as often has been the case in finance, the back office gets very little attention since it is viewed as a dull cost center.
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Yet India's relationship with the Philippines in back-office work is more complex than the numbers suggest.
The morale in the office will quickly rise back to its usual cheeriness if you refuse to let your co-workers dwell in their eggnog-induced daze.
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The big companies in back-office work are looking to roll up the smaller players.
The Conservatives said they were proposing cuts in the chief executive's department, and said back office efficiencies could be made in the economic development section.
Like other Big Box stores, all the companies in the Office Supplies category have cut back: closed stores, process re-engineered operations and, like every other sector that was unable to find some level of emotional engagement to hang their brand on, price-promoted, price-promoted, and then did more price-promoting.
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Back in the office, the heels come on and she uses a spritz of the fragrance.
It is not feasible to wait until you are back in the office to respond to a request.
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And that is why Marissa Mayer wants people back in the office.
Back in the office, still in full Elmo regalia, I made my way to the desk of Fleming Meeks, the executive editor of Barron's.
Yes, the industry moves in microseconds in the front office, but the back office takes a little longer and group efforts take longer still.
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When your inventory can no longer fit in the back room of your office, the next logical step is to move it into a warehouse.
"He has really toed the line in terms of both diet and exercise, " Schwartz said, adding that he told Clinton he could be back in the office Monday.
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Institutional investors infuriated by management's attempt to buy two construction companies controlled by relatives of Satyam's founder have reportedly sounded out IT firms and buyout funds about their interest in the software and back-office services heavyweight.
Despite all the evidence that suggests people are more productive, happier, work harder, and stay with the company longer, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer seems to think taking a giant leap backward requiring her employees back in the office, makes sense.
When I was back and in the office at the magazine where I worked, a California publicist crassly told us that we had to get back to the business of interviewing his celebrity.
As we drove away from the Green Zone and back to our office in the city, there was a body lying in the road.
Just the idea of Bill Clinton back in office via his wife or the American public, it just, I don't want any more Bushes and I don't want any more Clintons.
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