Archive for the ‘eNews’ Category

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

With warm weather arriving, it is almost time for eNews to take its annual summer hiatus. But while eNews is taking a beach break, our case studies this month prove that the financial industry is not. The insurer Esurance is moving full speed ahead with a new application life-cycle management system that is helping it bring new products to market 20 percent faster. In the ... Full story

The Four County Bank, based in central Georgia, has selected the BancPac core processing solution from Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) for its processing speed, easy integration and its flexible architecture. "Processing speed and core integration were two requirements we sought from the outset of our search. BancPac impressed us in both these areas and became the clear choice to meet our needs," said Lindsay Holloway, ... Full story

Online auto insurer Esurance has cut its development time by an estimated 20 percent through a new application life-cycle management system based on Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. The company employs 90 on-shore and off-shore developers who deliver an average of 50 projects a month, ranging from an update to an existing claims application to a new mobile framework for expanded customer access. "We suffered from ... Full story

Sector Treasury Services, a subsidiary of Capita Group that serves as treasury management and capital financing advisor to UK local authorities, has tapped SunGard Transaction Network's (STN) Money Markets portal to help its local government treasury clients meet short-term investment requirements. STN Money Market Portal will be used to give clients research capabilities and historical data as well as underlying holdings of funds, yield comparisons and ... Full story

Microsoft is hard at work putting the finishing touches on the next major Windows Mobile release, to be known as Windows® Phones. This new generation of Windows® Phones will be based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will feature devices with a new finger touch screen interface and rich browsing experience. In addition, Microsoft is introducing two new services: one called Windows Marketplace for Mobile, a ... Full story

One common problem I see in the IT industry is the qualification of IT decisions. I talk to architects from all around the world and hear a lot of creative and innovate ways of solving problems. More often than not, what I don't hear is more concerning. When I have asked: 1. Why did we approach the problem in this manner? 2. How does this align to the ... Full story