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SAP and SAS Partnership Develops In-Memory Analytics for Big Data

SAP and SAS have signed a strategic agreement to develop data management and analytics solutions that allow SAS’s analytics applications to run on SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The aim is to deliver real-time data analysis, with early solutions due in the first half of next year. The partners plan to develop high-performance solutions across a…

A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View

Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only…

GoldenSource, SIX Provide FATCA Solution for Big UK Bank

GoldenSource has secured its first customer for the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) solution it has developed using its enterprise data management (EDM) platform and Connections service. The customer, a UK-based global universal bank, has also signed a contract with SIX Financial Information to provide data for the FATCA solution. The GoldenSource Connections…

Highlights from the Data Management Summit – Autumn 2013

Take a look at our video highlights to get an idea of what DMS is really all about! Hear some highlights from the panel discussions, tour the networking breaks, and hear what our sponsors and delegates have to say about the event, and you will soon be able to find out why this event is…

Xenomorph Adds S&P Capital IQ Data Connector to TimeScape

Xenomorph has added S&P Capital IQ to the list of data vendors it works with to provide connectors between data solutions and its TimeScape analysis and data management platform. The connectors enable data integration and allow commingling of multiple data sets from different sources, in support of applications such as dual sourcing of price information….

Opinion: Data Management – Still Not Available in High Definition

By Steve Young, CEO, Citisoft “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ” – Abraham Lincoln…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: IBOR – The Next Great Hype?

Kudos to Ronan Brennan, CTO at fund data management specialists MoneyMate, whose blog – IBOR – The Next Great Hype? – explores whether the concept of the investment book of record (IBOR) is anything more than mere hype. I’m pleased to report that he concludes there’s more to it than just bluster. Certainly, it’s something…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: NYSE Tech – Breaking Bad?

In what on paper looks like an executive clear-out ahead of the November 4 completion of InterContinentalExchange’s acquisition of NYSE Euronext, NYSE Technologies’ CEO Jon Robson and COO Terry Roche are leaving the company, according to sources close to the arrangement. The development follows the apparent breakdown of talks to spin off the NYSE Tech…

Asset Control Names Richard Petti as CEO

Asset Control has named Richard Petti, a former SunGard Data Systems executive, as CEO, just two months after the company was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners. Petti replaces interim CEO Dean Goodermote, who took on the role after former CEO Phil Lynch left Asset Control in February 2013 to join SunGard as head of global…

DMS Review: Regulation, Data Complexity Seen as Key Drivers in Coming 18 Months

Regulation will be the main challenge for data managers over the next two years, but it won’t be the only challenge as data complexity and volumes increase, business users demand better data, and unstructured data becomes part of the big picture. Still more, these challenges must be tackled in an environment of cost constraint. That…