Windows in Financial Services

Enough is never enough. At least not for Wall Street. That applies to almost any element of the business – profits, market share, customers – you name it. There is also an insatiable appetite for computational power and that’s where high-performance computing (HPC) comes in. Financial Insights’ parent company, IDC, uses the term high-performance computing [...]

Stockgroup’s Collaborative Technologies for Investors
In a Web 2.0 age, it is not only speed, but meaningfully delivering aggregated market data, news content and interactive Web services that count. Many say they do this. Few do this well. Many brokerage firms have invested in advisor technologies, and in technologies to enhance the customer experience, but few [...]

If it turns out as the soothsayers predict, the introduction of the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) will bring the most comprehensive changes to Europe’s capital markets arena yet seen. As Ian Warford, industry director for securities and capital markets at Microsoft EMEA, Financial Services, puts it: “MiFID is really like the [...]

High-performance computing deals with very high volume and throughput-information processing. Financial IT consultant Ray Ferrara at Fiducité examines HPC from a Windows-based perspective.
Once the domain of expensive, esoteric research projects, high-performance computing (HPC) today is becoming mainstream, paralleling industries like automobiles where techniques proven for the race track find their way to the family [...]

DriveCam takes the risk out of driving. For their insurance partners, that means they have a new way to help their clients be better clients. One of the challenges an insurance company faces is being able to identify the right clients to target and retain in their portfolio. They’d like to be able to work [...]

StreamBase Systems (www.streambase.com), a leader in the fast-growing complex event processing (CEP) market, has pioneered a remarkable new approach to processing and analyzing real-time streaming data. Founded by data management experts who have been driving industry innovation for decades and backed by top-tier investor firms, StreamBase has developed a new class of stream processing [...]

Seattle-based WaMu’s overhaul of its intranet has increased efficiency by allowing users to post and manage content more easily. The new system has also cut costs, as the more efficient overhauled intranet has consolidated many mini-intranets that users had created to circumvent the inefficiencies of the old system.
The overhaul began when the banking firm realized [...]

IBM (www.ibm.com) recently announced a new focus on the Departmental/Workgroup clusters market. For engineers, scientists and IT professionals who use high-performance computing (HPC) applications, IBM provides departmental and workgroup clusters. Available for Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003, these clusters capitalize on IBM’s extensive engineering, testing and deep-clustering experience, utilizing IBM System x™ rack-optimized or IBM [...]

From the Editor:
One of the four talks in the opening general session of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Technology Management Conference & Exhibit is titled, “Electronic Trading: Then and Now.”
That title could almost be a subtitle for our cover story article on the drive to build a combined OMS-EMS. Understanding why vendors [...]

Microsoft and SAP have answered the prayers of millions of business end users who wanted to leverage the power of SAP business applications through the intuitive interface of their Microsoft desktop.
Duet, a jointly-developed solution, enables business users to access SAP applications like time and expense management, budgeting, travel management, as well as business intelligence applications [...]