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SunGard recently decided to overhaul its IntelliMatch reconciliation system into a consolidated platform that could manage reconciliations in varied departments of a financial institution or corporation through one centralized point. In the process, developers boosted the system’s performance, increased its scalability, improved the user experience and added automated analytics that provided new levels of depth and visibility. Full story

Financial firms have long been leaders in IT. The speed, volume and uptime requirements of the industry, put systems to the test, and the industry’s reliance on technology has long put financial services firms in the position or being early adopters of best-of-breed technologies. For technology firms, the financial services market is crucial for revenue, market share and investor relations. Wall Street has a big influence ... Full story

Boiling it all down to the bare bones, two concepts seem to run through all our eNews features this month: speed and data. Both of those themes are old classics in financial services, but somehow the industry seems to find creative approaches to them time and time again. First, congratulations are in order for SunGard IntelliMatch, our Windows in Financial Services Banking Innovation Award winner, which ... Full story

There has been strong growth in the uptake of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in the past decade, fueled in large part by data. As the collection of data by companies has continued to grow, so has the need for managing that information so it can be organized, searched and used by the enterprise. Hyland Software has been one of the fastest growing Enterprise Content Management ... Full story

It is our pleasure to announce this year’s five Insurance Innovator Awards. The five winning projects demonstrate that innovation continues at a strong pace in the financial industry as customers and clients are increasingly technically-savvy and consequently more demanding. Many benefits that we once were grateful for – access to information, speed, ... Full story

  AVIVA WINS 2010 INNOVATOR AWARD FOR INTRANET INNOVATION Aviva is the largest insurance group in the UK and the fifth largest in the world, with operations in 28 countries. It’s “One Intranet” program, with the vision “One Aviva, twice the value,” has not only streamlined communication to the firms’ 60,000 employees, but also has enabled collaboration among employees ... Full story

Strategy Companion’s Analyzer is a front-end SQL Server Business Intelligence solution that offers ease-of-use for non-technical users and simple deployment across the enterprise. Bob Abernethy, Strategy Companion’s SVP & GM talks about the trend of pervasive BI and why self-service BI is becoming a necessity. How is Analyzer being used today ... Full story

  Northwestern Mutual: Web Site Innovation When Milwaukee-WI based Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company began an overhaul and redesign of its Web site in early 2009, the goal was to create a rich and engaging brand experience that would be easier to navigate by current and prospective clients and easier to update and maintain by internal personnel. With help from strategic provider Infosys, ... Full story

  CS STARS Risk Goggles: Risk Technology Innovation Risk Goggles, from risk management technology provider CS STARS, a business unit of Marsh, provides clients with location-based risk data that they can interact with and incorporate into risk management strategies. The .NET-based tool, available ... Full story

  Innovation in High Performance Computing As the leading provider of products and services for managing catastrophe risk, RMS offers technology for managing risks associated with events ranging from earthquakes and floods to pandemics and terrorism. Understandably, it’s a CPU intensive business. “Not only does it require a lot of computing power for simple results, but ... Full story