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Making the Most of Mainframe Structured Data: Webinar Preview
Mainframes still provide the data and computational backbone of many financial institutions but some organisations are encountering challenges as they try to integrate them with newer architectures. Many are incompatible with cloud and server-based architectures as well as APIs. Work-arounds can be achieved but they require middleware that can be costly and time consuming to…
Data Standards Bring Many Gains (If You Have the Right Setup): Webinar Review
Standards and identifiers are helping to improve the quality of data used by capital market participants, but organisations with legacy architectures are finding it challenging to capitalise on those benefits, according to polls by A-Team Group. Half of respondents to surveys held during a recent A-Team Group Data Management Insight webinar said that data standardisation…
AI is Helping to Solve New ESG Data Challenges: ESG Briefing Review
The peculiar demands that ESG data integration places on capital markets participants requires powerful techniques that are increasingly being provided through artificial intelligence, A-Team Group’s recent ESG Data and Tech Briefing London heard. From data quality monitoring and analytics to supply chain analysis and investment management, AI-based tools are already offering automated solutions to some…
Salesforce-Informatica Sale Plan Seen as Potential Pointer to Data Sector’s Future
Salesforce’s planned US$8 billion acquisition of data management and integration specialist Informatica has left data industry observers scratching their heads and trying parse the longer-term implications of the deal for the rest of the IT industry. The puzzlement comes from the CRM giant’s choice of purchase target, with responses focussed particularly on the overlap of…
Gaining a Holistic View of the Modern Investment Portfolio: Webinar Preview
The economic landscape has been transformed in recent years by a combination of technological upheavals, rising cost pressures on financial institutions and a rewriting of geopolitical and trading norms. All of these have inevitably led financial institutions to reconfigure their operations and the data processes on which they depend. The next A-Team Group Data Management…
Salesforce to Buy Informatica, Betting on ‘Switzerland of Data’ to Drive AI
Data management giant Informatica is to be acquired by Salesforce in a deal valued at US$8 billion, giving the CRM behemoth a cloud-based data business on which to further build its artificial intelligence ambitions. The California-based companies entered into an agreement for the deal, which will see Salesforce buy all the Informatica stock it doesn’t…
Standards and Identifiers Help to Prevent ‘Data Chaos’: Webinar Preview
Financial institutions’ absorption of ever-greater volumes of data, and their utilisation of it in a surging number of use cases, is putting strains on their data management processes. Taking the friction out of those workflows can improve performance substantially. But the absence of a unified international set of standards to ensure all data used by…
Overcoming Data Challenges of Rapidly Evolving ESG Space: ESG Data and Tech Briefing Preview
The rapid maturation of ESG data integration and utilisation within financial institutions has forced them to invest in new technology and data management processes. The rate of change, however, has been a challenge for some organisations, which have struggled to put in place the necessary capabilities to absorb, order and deploy such large volumes of…
Scale and Governance Top Drivers of Modern Data Architecture Plans: Webinar Review
Financial institutions are investing in modern technology architectures to bolster the flexibility and scalability of their data management processes as the number of use cases for that information, and the volume of data they ingest, expands. They are also seizing on the latest architectures to strengthen data governance in response to the growing complexity of…
Three Predictions for the ESG Year Ahead from ESG Data and Tech Briefing Keynote Speaker Barrie Ingman
What a difference a year makes. At A-Team Group’s last big ESG event, in the spring of last year, delegates were still buoyant about the ESG space even after a bruising 12 months in which anti- sustainability rhetoric had risen again. Calls among conservatives in the US to backpedal on regulatory controls combined with the…