GoldenSource Opens Sales and Support Office in Hong Kong
EDM vendor GoldenSource has opened a new office in Hong Kong to provide the local market and customers with sales, pre-sales, support, professional services and development services. Mike Meriton, CEO of the vendor, hopes the new office will support its Asian expansion plans, along with its other offices in the region located in Mumbai and...
Siperian Talks up Third Quarter Results, Raises US$9m in Funding
Master data management (MDM) solution provider Siperian claims its third fiscal quarter has been one of its strongest, although the company has not yet released its figures for the period. The company, which offers its MDM solution to 15 industry verticals of which financial services is one, has also recently raised US$9 million in funding....
MFC Global Investment Management Selects Thomson Reuters’ Portia for Recordkeeping
The asset management arm of Canadian-based financial services group Manulife Financial, MFC Global Investment Management, has selected Thomson Reuters’ Portia for its investment recordkeeping requirements. The firm signed the multi-million dollar deal with a view to introducing a single book of record for the public asset component of its investment management business, says said Jacqui...
Enterprise-wide Approach to Data Management is Focus of Buy Side Middle Office, Says Beacon Consulting Group
Data management has increased in importance for the middle office of buy side firms, according to a recent survey by consultancy firm Beacon Consulting Group. The survey, which involved responses from 40 investment managers, focused on the challenges and opportunities facing buy side firms in the middle office. Keith Brown, president of Beacon Consulting Group,...
SS&C Technologies Acquires Evare to Increase its Data Management Offering
Software and outsourcing solution vendor SS&C Technologies has acquired the assets of Evare, a provider for financial data acquisition, transformation and delivery solutions. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed but SS&C has indicated that it believes the acquisition will enhance its offering in the areas of reconciliations, post-trade communication, securities data and portfolio management....
Siperian Launches New Data Governance Application for its MDM Hub
Master data management (MDM) platform vendor Siperian has launched a new data governance application for its MDM Hub, which it says is aimed at allowing data stewards to more effectively manage and monitor master data. The solution, which it has dubbed Siperian Business Data Director, is web-based and also allows downstream data users to create...
Bloor Research Profiles Data Discovery Vendors, Singles Out Rever, Trillium and CA
Consultancy firm Bloor Research has released the first of four market updates profiling the data management vendor community. The report profiles the ‘data discovery’ vendor community, which it indicates is a new sector that has distinguished itself from data profiling. Data discovery deals with: “the discovery of relationships between data elements, regardless of where the...
Opportunity Knocks for the SMB Market
By Brian Reid, managing director of The Connect Partnership IBM and Oracle products are now more affordable to the smaller and medium sized business (SMB and MMB) marketplace. The opportunity to implement best in class technical and data architecture is now an economically viable proposition for these organisations. At the recent TSAM conference on 3...
Asset Control Adds Language Support for Asian Character Sets in AC Plus
EDM vendor Asset Control has added new localised language capabilities to its AC Plus data management software in order to support users in the Asia Pacific region. The new additions have been built upon the vendor’s AC Plus Desktop platform and allow for the processing, editing and display of multi-byte character sets, such as Han...
Buy Side Has a Long Way to go to Catch up to Sell Side in Data Management, TSAM 2009 Delegates Told
The buy side is significantly behind the sell side in terms of progress towards reaching data management nirvana, according to speakers at this week’s TSAM 2009 conference in London. Most buy side firms are lacking in data tsars or relevant executive level champions to push forward change in the area of improving data quality, delegates...