CUNA tech council honors CU innovators.Four credit unions were named winners of the 2009 CUNA Cuna Chibchan-speaking Indian people who once occupied the central region of what is now Panama and the neighbouring San Blas Islands and who still survive in marginal areas. In the 16th century they lived in federated villages under chiefs who wielded considerable power. Technology Council's best practices awards at the group's recent 14th annual summit meeting in San Francisco. They were the $1.9 billion Tinker FCU FCU Federal Credit Union FCU Florida Credit Union FCU Fan Coil Unit FCU Fuel Control Unit FCU Flight Control Unit FCU Flexor Carpi Ulnaris FCU Familial Cold Urticaria FCU Fire Control Unit FCU Fused Connection Unit FCU Flow Control Unit of Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma; the $311 million Nassau Financial FCU of Westbury, N.Y.; the $18 billion State Employees' CU of Raleigh, N.C.; and the $230 million Envision CU of Tallahassee, Fla. Tinker FCU was honored in the technology infrastructure category for its virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. and storage area networking work; SECU SECU State Employees Credit Union of Maryland SECU Security Financial Group, Inc. SECU Saginaw Eaton Credit Union (Saginaw, Michigan) SECU Standard Electronic Control Unit won the information-security privacy honor for its member photo ID program; Nassau Financial was feted in sales management and marketing for its in-house MCIF MCIF Marketing Customer Information File MCIF Marketing Central Information File MCIF Miniature Card Implementers Forum work, and Envision won the miscellaneous category for projects that included a centralized data conversion interface, streamlined coin and currency ordering processes, and trend analysis and account research tools. The winners were selected by a panel of CUNA Technology Council members and are chosen each year. Three credit unions also received honorable mention awards: the $1 billion FORUM Credit Union in Indianapolis for an interactive intelligence program, the $1.3 billion Technology CU in San Jose, Calif, for an online banking administrative tool, and the $140 million Beehive Beehive (star cluster): see Praesepe. beehive heraldic and verbal symbol. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 193] See : Industriousness FCU of Rexburg, Idaho, for its in-branch video display software switching system. Winner presentations and more information about the awards are available by selecting the best practices link at www.cunatechnologycouncil.org. |
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