"NCR was a broken company, " recalls Lars Nyberg , the company's Swedish-born chief executive.
With everyone reaching for NCR's bigger customers, Nyberg is working hard to serve smaller ones.
Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich expects NCR's net margin to rise to 3% by 1999.
Nor has it helped that NCR 's recent corporate history has been so confused.
Other companies attending the interoperability session include Citigroup, PrivacyBank, NCR, NEC, Phone.com, and Nokia.
Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of NCR vs.
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Chances are, he'll finance future purchases through NCR, which offers payment terms up to five years.
NCR, the second-largest acquisition in the computer industry, which was reversed after years of immense losses.
At NCR, this resulted in a dramatic improvement in sales efficiency and supply chain performance.
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The problem, from NCR's perspective, was that the used market was depressing prices for NCR's new machines.
Phelon met Barbara Britton at a Pepperdine party who was working for Mark Hurd then at NCR.
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Up to 70 jobs could be under threat at technology firm NCR's research and development centre in Dundee.
Right now, NCR's Teradata software is the leader in the market for gargantuan databases contained in data warehouses.
But in the last week, NCR has become "significantly" concerned with CCC's inability to satisfy its financial obligations.
Hurd, who came from NCR, followed the ouster of Carly Fiorina, an outsider who came from Lucent.
According to NCR, the payment details are encrypted and the transaction is securely processed by a cloud-based system.
That's right, that NCR--the 117-year-old cash register firm where Thomas Watson worked before he went off to run IBM.
"NCR does have very large customers, no question about it, " says IBM's Kolar.
At the closing bell, NCR is up about 0.1%, while HCBK is off about 0.1% on the day Thursday.
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Recently PayPal announced a tie-up with ATM Company NCR, which will expand its presence to restaurants and gas stations.
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Hurd, previously chief executive of NCR, came to HP in April, four months after HP's board fired Carly Fiorina .
If Nyberg can get NCR in shape, it might make an attractive takeover candidate as the database management industry consolidates.
In part to break NCR from its manufacturing past, Nyberg sold three NCR plants in April 1997 to Solectron Corp.
We all presented wonderful products only to be told that NCR had no interest in reselling any of our offerings.
For a company that is over 125 years old, NCR may still have some growth and momentum left in it.
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NCR, which has had a presence in Dundee for nearly 70 years, declined to comment on the details of its plans.
The cuts come 18 months after NCR laid off more than 600 workers, leaving just 170 NCR manufacturing posts in Dundee.
As chairman of H-P, Ms. Dunn also helped lead a CEO search that recruited Mark Hurd from NCR Corp.
We have also made investments in a variety of companies and organically at NCR, to lead in some of these areas.
Mr McGovern said he had met with the UK Enterprise Minister Pat McFadden to discuss the legality of the move by NCR.
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