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South Africa’s Prescient Selects Eagle Investment Systems’ Access ASP
Eagle Investment Systems, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, has been selected by Prescient to deliver its integrated investment management suite via its application service provider (ASP), Eagle Access. Prescient, with R60 billion under management in South Africa, selected the Eagle suite to streamline its growing local and global operations. Eagle will…
Volante Launches Annual Subscription Pricing Model for Data Management Offering
Volante Technologies has released a new enterprise pricing model for its tools for integration, data management and data governance. In addition to perpetual licenses, Volante enterprise tools are now available by annual subscription incorporating all maintenance and upgrades. According to the vendor, the result is dramatically reduced upfront costs for financial institutions seeking a unified…
Switzerland’s Banque CIC Implements Gain|Avaloq Adapter for SIX Telekurs VDF Data
Swiss bank, Banque CIC (Suisse), has upgraded its existing implementation of Aim Software’s Gain Data Management platform for an enhanced processing of SIX Telekurs VDF data in Avaloq via the Gain|Avaloq adapter. The bank, which is headquartered in Basel, has been using the Gain platform since 2002 for the processing and reporting of data from…
M&A and JVs Good Idea in Principle, More Difficult in Data Practice
The news this week that Morgan Stanley and Citi’s joint venture in the wealth management space, dubbed Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, will be delayed by up to two years as a result of IT integration issues, will not be news to the data management community. After all, this sector of the industry has been suffering…
Bloor Research Examines Vendor Coverage of Data Profiling, Cleansing and Quality
Following its publication of a report on the data discovery vendor community, consultancy firm Bloor Research has produced three more reports on other areas of the data management spectrum: data profiling, data cleansing and data quality. The smaller vendors in the reports seem to appear in the most favourable light due to their targeted coverage…
Divisions Between Market and Reference Data Causing Issues for Transparency, Says GoldenSource
A major hurdle to achieving a consistent view of pricing, positions and exposure lays in the divide between market data feeds and reference data repositories, according to GoldenSource, a provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions. “By definition, enterprise risk management and reporting should go front to back as well as across assets,” says Gert…
Asset Control’s Campbell Departs Firm to Return to Vancouver
Conal Campbell, senior sales executive for EMEA and Asia/Pacific at data management platform provider Asset Control, has left the company to return to his native Vancouver for personal reasons. Campbell, most recently based out of Asset Control’s London office, was originally with Vancouver-based TAP Solutions and joined Asset Control when the Dutch platform operator acquired…
PolarLake Adds Grid Computing Capabilities to RDD Platform
PolarLake had added grid computing capabilities to its Reference Data Distribution (RDD) platform in order to increase its scalability for downstream uses. John Randles, CEO of the vendor, explains that the enhancements have been added to PolarLake RDD to allow firms’ enterprise data management (EDM) platforms to support more than two or three downstream systems….
Data is More Important Than Ever Before But Cultural Barriers Remain, Says Evaxyx
The issue of data management is so important in the current market that it has been raised as a priority at the board level, according to a recent report conducted by Amber Group and commissioned by data integration consulting firm Evaxyx. The focus on improving risk analysis and reporting systems has meant that data management…
Trillium Software Adds More Bells and Whistles to Flagship Solution, Including New Dashboard
Trillium Software has released a new version of its enterprise data quality solution, Trillium Software System, which it says is aimed at accelerating the design, development and deployment of real-time data quality programmes across an organisation. The development of version 12 of the solution was prompted by client requirements for faster and more accurate data…