The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Big Data Users – According to Forbes
We’re still grappling with just how to apply Big Data to the real world of financial data management. Interestingly, this article by Forbes’ contributor Adrian Bridgwater (@ABridgwater) takes the well-known book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and uses the seven-habit approach to apply to big data analytics for users, analysts,...
Eagle Investment Systems Supports Sovereign Wealth Funds
Eagle Investment Systems is working on enterprise data management (EDM) projects with an increasing number of sovereign wealth funds across Asia, the Middle East and South Africa as they recognise the need to invest in financial technology and operate along similar lines to large institutional asset managers. The drivers behind technology investment include the need...
Adaptive Combines Software AG Solutions to Deliver Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Adaptive Consulting has extended its relationship with Software AG to become a strategic partner working across the software company’s in-memory data management, streaming analytics, complex event processing (CEP) and universal messaging solutions. The consultancy has implemented Software AG’s messaging solution in global banks for a few years and is now working with two of the...
SunGard Measures the Gap Between Data Reporting and Business Intelligence
The gap between financial data reporting and business intelligence has still to be closed at many firms as they struggle to move away from after-the-fact reporting and adopt proactive and investigative reporting strategies. The gap is often exacerbated by the use of multiple systems, but it can be narrowed by improving data management, automating reporting...
DTCC Pushes Forward with Clarient Client Reference Data Utility
DTCC is coming closer to delivering the client data and documentation utility it described last year as it tests the first release of Clarient Entity Hub ahead of general availability in the fourth quarter of this year. The company signed a memorandum of understanding to design and develop a utility that would support client on-boarding...
Are These the Best Providers of Enterprise Data Management Platforms?
Do you think Goldensource is the best sell-side enterprise data management platform? Or Fidelity ActionsXchange is the best corporate actions processing platform? How about Wolters Kluwer as the best regulatory solutions provider? Or DTCC’s Avox as the best LEI data solution? These are some of the winners of last year’s Data Management Summit Awards. If...
Six Bidders Shortlisted to Build the US Consolidated Audit Trail
The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) first proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) back in 2010 has come a step closer to reality with the selection of six bids from a list of 10 RFP responses that were submitted to build and maintain the audit trail. The six bids still in the running...
GoldenSource Packages EDM Components to Deliver Centralised Entity Master
GoldenSource has pulled together components of its enterprise data management (EDM) product set to deliver a single, centralised entity master. The entity data solution is part of GoldenSource EDM Version 8.5 and combines technologies already on the EDM platform with a new presentation layer, additional feed handlers and rules and workflows for entity data management....
Bloomberg Extends Vault with File Analytics for Dark Data
Bloomberg has added File Analytics to its Vault enterprise information management service with a view to helping organisations locate and manage dark data held in files and documents. The company defines dark data as ‘unstructured, untapped data that is held by organisations, which has not been analysed or processed’, and says users of the Vault...
Markit IPO Marks a Milestone in Company History
Markit made its initial public offering (IPO) this week, pricing its shares at $24 and increasing the number offered by 17% to meet demand. The shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and at the offer price value the London-based financial information services and data management company at over $4 billion. The IPO...