“Bank holiday travellers face delays - Ananova” plus 4 more |
- Bank holiday travellers face delays - Ananova
- AtTask Enables Cashmere Valley Bank to Successfully Prioritize ... - Earthtimes
- Deutsche Bank Chooses Aveksa for Enterprise Access Governance - Earthtimes
- Travel chaos expected in Bank Holiday rush - Daily Telegraph
- Bank Holiday travel and weather update - Nottingham Evening Post
| Bank holiday travellers face delays - Ananova Posted: 29 Aug 2009 06:02 AM PDT Travellers heading off to enjoy a sunshine-and-showers bank holiday weekend will have to contend with busy roads and disrupted rail services. Motoring groups warned that major routes would remain busy over the weekend, while train travellers are having to cope with a number of rail engineering works, including 42 on Saturday alone. Journeys were hampered on Friday by a series of accidents on major roads. One of the most disruptive hold-ups was on the M25 in Surrey, which delayed Gatwick airport-bound holidaymakers who were among the 1.9 million Britons flying abroad over the weekend. Thousands of motorists were trapped for more than six hours in their cars after the northbound carriageway of the M5 was closed while police negotiated with a suicidal man on the Avonmouth bridge. Another serious accident led to the westbound closure of a section of the M58 near Skelmersdale in Lancashire. And two lanes of the M62 were closed in Greater Manchester, while there was also heavy traffic reported on the northern part of the M25, the A303 near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, the M23 in Surrey and the M4 in Berkshire. With forecasters predicting that temperatures could reach 25C (77F) in London on Bank Holiday Monday, many people headed for the numerous music festivals taking place over the weekend, including the popular Reading festival in Berkshire. Rail engineering works are resulting in a number of trains being replaced by buses, although train companies are operating 3,500 more trains than last August Bank Holiday, as well as replacing 15% fewer train services with bus services. MeteoGroup, the Press Association's weather division, said the windy conditions would continue on Saturday, with England being mainly dry and sunny and Scotland and Wales getting showers. Sunday is expected to be increasingly cloudy across the UK with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. The clouds should break across England on Monday, leaving warm spells of sunshine.
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| AtTask Enables Cashmere Valley Bank to Successfully Prioritize ... - Earthtimes Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:53 AM PDT OREM, Utah - (Business Wire) AtTask, the definitive solution enabling organizations to collaborate and accomplish the work most essential to the enterprise, provides headache relief to the Information Technology (IT) department at Cashmere Valley Bank. "It's a fact of life in today's economy, IT departments will have less to do their jobs, they need something that helps make them more efficient," said Jessica Piestrup, Director of Software Development at Cashmere Valley Bank. "The bottom line is that AtTask isn't expensive for what it does, and is essential for streamlining projects, managing time and maximizing resources. AtTask's on-demand solution is exactly what we needed." "Financial service organizations around the world turn to AtTask because they need to validate every initiative and understand the impact of every potential project to maximize their resources," said Scott Johnson, CEO of AtTask. "AtTask enables organizations to streamline the project management process from project selection to execution, increasing the effectiveness of every project by optimizing their resources to accomplish the work most essential to the enterprise." Piestrup felt the other project and portfolio management (PPM) solutions she considered were more cumbersome than AtTask. "It took more time to enter our information into the program than it did to actually complete the project," she said. "That is one reason why AtTask was the perfect fit for us. We were able to implement the software directly from the test site, and within hours we were up and running." AtTask includes features that are specifically designed to enhance company effectiveness through prioritization:
"During this strenuous economic climate, many financial institutions are having to do more with less," Piestrup continued. "We needed to streamline our practices, and AtTask provided the means to accomplish that. The bottom line is this: AtTask provided an invaluable solution at a reasonable price. It exceeded our expectations." Recent AtTask Highlights
About AtTask, Inc. AtTask (http://www.attask.com) is the project and portfolio management (PPM) solution that focuses all knowledge workers on those activities that make them and their company more effective, innovative, and competitive. Its platform-independent and multilingual solution increases efficiency for small- to medium-sized businesses and Fortune 500 companies across the globe. AtTask's clients include American Airlines, Boeing, CBS, Chevron, Cisco Systems, GE Healthcare, Google, HBO, Johnson & Johnson, Newsweek, Samsung, Toyota, Walt Disney, and Whirlpool. About Cashmere Valley Bank Cashmere Valley Bank (http://www.cashmerevalleybank.com) was established in 1932 by two brothers, Hy W. Rieke and H.H. Rieke in Cashmere Valley, Washington. Since then, it has expanded its branches to include cities like Ellensburg, Cle Elum, Chelan, Yakima, and Bellevue. The Bank offers a wide variety of financial services. The success of Cashmere Valley Bank is the result of maintaining a high level of personal service and controlling expenses to allow customers the best value available.
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| Deutsche Bank Chooses Aveksa for Enterprise Access Governance - Earthtimes Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:25 AM PDT WALTHAM, Mass. - (Business Wire) Aveksa, Inc., the market-leading provider of enterprise access governance solutions, today announced that Deutsche Bank AG, a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise, has deployed Aveksa to automate its access governance processes across its entire enterprise. Deutsche Bank will leverage Aveksa Compliance Manager's process and policy automation capabilities to efficiently ensure that every employee's access to corporate information is governed effectively and in compliance with regulatory mandates. "Ensuring appropriate user access to information resources is of critical importance to our compliance and risk management efforts at Deutsche Bank," said Berthold Kerl, managing director and head of IT security governance for Deutsche Bank AG. "Aveksa has enabled us to more efficiently identify orphaned user accounts and prevent inappropriate access across our entire organization. Aveksa also provides us with an automated access governance model that simplifies compliance with regulations in a complex environment, while reducing the compliance burden on the organization." Aveksa Compliance Manager is part of the Aveksa Enterprise Access Governance Platform, the industry's first comprehensive solution for access governance, risk and compliance management. The Aveksa Enterprise Access Governance Platform also includes the Aveksa Role Manager, which enables role discovery, modeling and maintenance; and the Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager, which combines a business-centric interface and an automated, streamlined request process with policy controls to ensure that access is appropriate. "For global organizations like Deutsche Bank, governing user access while keeping pace with the speed of business change has never been more challenging, and automation is the key to enabling sustainable compliance and effective access risk management," said Deepak Taneja, president and CTO of Aveksa. "Aveksa empowers organizations through a set of streamlined processes that make proper governance of user access part of daily operating practices and procedures. Deutsche Bank's deployment of Aveksa Compliance Manager is representative of many of our customers' requirements, which include the ability to scale across thousands of users, dozens of regulatory requirements, thousands of information resources and millions of entitlements." With the Aveksa Access Governance Platform, organizations such as Deutsche Bank can now leverage the industry's most scalable solution to efficiently address security and regulatory demands through a collaborative process that automates manual tasks, enforces accountability, provides a system of record for the auditable evidence of compliance, reduces access-related business risk and creates an effective process for access delivery across the entire enterprise. About Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is powerful in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 80,000 employees in 72 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people. www.db.com About Aveksa Aveksa provides the most comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance, risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the on-boarding, change management, monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles; enables role discovery and lifecycle management; and delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. With Aveksa, business, security and compliance teams can effectively collaborate and enforce accountability. Our growing customer base includes leading Global 2000 organizations in financial services, healthcare, retail, energy/utility, transportation and manufacturing. For more information, go to www.aveksa.com.
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| Travel chaos expected in Bank Holiday rush - Daily Telegraph Posted: 29 Aug 2009 02:27 AM PDT Major roads are expected to remain busy over the entire weekend, while train travellers will have to endure a several sets of rail engineering works, including 42 on Sunday alone. Traffic jams on many of the main arteries will also be compounded by thousands of music fans travelling to five music festivals in different parts of the country, including Reading and Leeds. Thousands more revellers will flock to the Notting Hill Carnival in west London and the Rugby League Challenge Cup final at Wembley. Journeys have already been disrupted by a series of accidents on major roads. One of the most disruptive hold-ups was on the M25 in Surrey on Friday, which delayed Gatwick airport-bound holidaymakers who were among the 1.9 million Britons flying abroad over the weekend. Thousands of motorists were trapped for more than six hours in their cars after the northbound carriageway of the M5 was closed while police negotiated with a suicidal man on the Avonmouth bridge. Another serious accident led to the westbound closure of a section of the M58 near Skelmersdale in Lancashire. Two lanes of the M62 were closed in Greater Manchester, while there was also heavy traffic reported on the northern part of the M25, the A303 near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, the M23 in Surrey and the M4 in Berkshire. Rail engineering works have resulted in a number of trains being replaced by buses, although train companies are operating 3,500 more trains than last August Bank Holiday, as well as replacing 15% fewer train services with bus services. Friday was the busiest day for Bank Holiday flight departures, with 420,000 due to fly between Friday and Monday from Heathrow airport and 245,000 from Gatwick. Top destinations for those getting away were Majorca and Ibiza, mainland Spain, Turkey, Portugal and the Greek islands. Top city-break destinations were New York, Amsterdam, Dublin and Rome. John McEwan, chairman of Association of British Travel Agents, said: "Many families see the bank holiday as their last-ditch attempt to get a holiday abroad and guarantee sunshine. "People have been holding on to their money until they are sure they have enough to get away with." Holidaymakers also flocked to seaports, while one lucky traveller – 35-year-old graphic designer David Kemp – became the 100 millionth passenger to travel with Channel Tunnel high-speed rail company Eurostar today and was given one year's free travel on the service. Half a million people were heading abroad by ferry or by Eurostar over the weekend, with the port of Dover reporting a 16% increase in car traffic this Bank Holiday compared with the same period last year. Forecasters predicted that temperatures could reach 25C (77F) in London on Bank Holiday Monday. Windy conditions will continue on Saturday, with England being mainly dry and sunny and Scotland and Wales getting showers. Sunday is expected to be increasingly cloudy across the UK with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. The clouds should break across England on Monday, leaving warm spells of sunshine. Monday could be cloudy in Scotland and Wales, with possibly heavy rain in places.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bank Holiday travel and weather update - Nottingham Evening Post Posted: 29 Aug 2009 02:42 AM PDT But work to widen the M1 will continue between junctions 25 and 28 in both directions with narrow lanes and a 50mph speed limit. Delays of 10 to 30 minutes are expected along this stretch. Also, the dualling of the A46 from Newark to Widmerpool will continue with a speed limit of 40mph – slight delays are expected. The Highways Agency predict the roads will be busier than usual today - with the biggest increase in traffic being at noon. Today will also be the busiest day at East Midlands airport with 19,000 passengers flying. The most popular destination this weekend is Palma in Majorca, followed by Alicante, Malaga and Tenerife. For those staying at home, the temperature is expected to reach 18°C and there is no rain forecast. Trains to and from London will be unable to call at Derby and Long Eaton this weekend. A replacement bus service will run between Derby and East Midlands Parkway for train connections to London. Train services between Derby and Nottingham will be replaced by bus services, which will take about 30 minutes.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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