DST Global Solutions’ Gallacher Discusses Blueprinting Approach to Data with Anova Platform, New Client Win
DST Global Solutions launched its middle office data management and analytics platform Anova towards the end of last year and has since been working on the migration of its client base onto the new platform and has bagged its first client, according to Des Gallacher, global head of data management and analytics solutions for the...
GoldenSource Opens Beijing Office
GoldenSource Corporation, an enterprise data management solutions provider, today announced the expansion of its Asia Pacific presence with the opening of a Beijing office. With Beijing, GoldenSource now has four offices in Asia, including Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Mumbai. Located in the Chaoyang District, GoldenSource’s Beijing office will provide sales and support for a growing...
Deutsche Bank’s Walker Expounds on the Benefits of an MDM Warehouse
When it comes to the rather “unsexy” problem of tackling a firm’s master data challenges and ensuring that as much point to point architecture has been eliminated as possible, there is nothing better than a master data management (MDM) warehouse, said Shannon Walker, business architect for Finance Change at Deutsche Bank, to delegates at this...
Federated Approach to Data Management is Impractical, Say UBS’ Lux and Bachra
It is hard to develop good data governance practices with a federated approach to data management, according to Hans Lux, head of data architecture, and Jagtar Bachra, lead data analyst, both from UBS Global Asset Management. Speaking at this week’s TSAM in London, Lux and Bachra argued that a more traditional, centralised EDM approach would...
GoldenSource’s Stock Discusses 2010 Results and Prod Dev Plans in Pricing Space
Last week, GoldenSource announced that in 2010 it had achieved a 30% increase in revenues on the previous year, which Tom Stock, senior vice president of product management at the EDM vendor, attributes in part to the success of its new market data, data warehousing and risk management focused solutions. Speaking to Reference Data Review, Stock...
DataFlux Acquires Baseline Consulting
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced it has acquired Baseline Consulting, a data management services and consulting firm. The move will provide DataFlux customers with the technical and business expertise to achieve more rapid ROI from their data management projects. Baseline helps organisations enhance the value of enterprise data, improve business results...
McGraw Hill Financial’s Split from S&P’s Ratings Agency Signals its High Hopes for Data, Pricing and Analytics
The decision taken by Standard & Poor’s to split its data, pricing and analytics business from its ratings agency business, and to rebrand it under the new moniker of McGraw Hill Financial, is a further signal that the vendor has high hopes for this area of its business. Given the flack that the ratings agencies...
Eagle Plans Revision of its Mission Statement to Reflect the Importance of ASP
Back in December, Eagle Investment Systems’ president and CEO John Lehner told Reference Data Review that the vendor would be focusing on bolstering its software as a service (SaaS) offering, adding new integration tools and increasing its global coverage this year. In order to reflect this work and the increased importance of its application service provider (ASP)...
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Improves the Value of Data for Business Processes; Maintains Data Quality Leadership
Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, continued to be recognised by industry analysts and global customers as a leading data quality solutions provider in 2010. With a focus on how data discovery, data cleansing and data quality impact business process and operations results, Trillium Software clients utilised the award-winning Trillium Software System to discover critical...
Markit Calls for a Data Aggregator Within Swaps Data Repository Space
In its feedback to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) joint proposals regarding reporting to swaps data repositories, derivatives specialist vendor Markit suggests the industry needs a data aggregator in order to gather together the data spread across the various repositories in the market. This indicates that Markit may...