Increasing Speed and Agility in Testing Complex Financial Services Applications
An Insurance &Technology Webcast

Financial institutions have found that traditional testing approaches are not sufficient for the critical front end and back end functional and performance testing that is required.

Test Virtualization solves that problem that by creating a virtual environment to "simulate" individual or total back end components.

Test Automation with test virtualization helps reduce cost and risk, and can speed the delivery of integrated applications.

With this solution approach, institutions have demonstrated that:

- Test lab infrastructure costs can be reduced by up to 90%

- Labor involved in setting up test environments can be reduced by 80%+

- Test environments can be configured in minutes

- Developers have the means to test software earlier

Enabling High-Performance Trading Alpha: Beyond Low Latency to Sustained Performance
As global financial markets become more interconnected and diverse, trading environments are increasingly dynamic and responsive to real-time conditions. Participants across the trading value chain seek to capture new business opportunities while mitigating risks associated with the added volatility in today's financial markets. Achieving this goal requires trading platforms that provide flexibility and offer insight and intelligence that feed into optimized trading strategies.

Join us for this complimentary 60-minute Webinar, hosted by Wall Street & Technology and sponsored by Cisco, to discover how a high performance trading fabric architecture and new innovations like the Cisco Nexus 3548 with Algo-Boost can help financial firms address challenges and capture opportunities in today's financial markets.

Creating an Integrated View: Incorporating MDM Technology into a Legal Entity Identifier Solution
The lack of a standard identification system for financial counterparties makes it difficult for financial firms to develop a consistent and integrated view of their exposures, such as in the case of default of counterparty. This is a challenge not only for firms, but also creates an obstacle for regulators to aggregate and share information to effectively monitor risks. A robust Master Data Management (MDM) solution helps financial institutions implement Legal Entity Identifiers in order to better understand their business and better respond to regulations, like Dodd-Frank.

Attend this live webcast as experts from Kingland Systems and IBM discuss how MDM helps financial institutions get a more complete view of their credit exposure and the governance processes surrounding the new LEI requirement.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Intelligent Flash for Financial Services: Helping The Industry Run Faster
A Datacenter Acceleration & InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast

Based on a study of flash usage among IT professionals in the financial services, this webcast will delve into the growing impact of flash storage within the industry and explore what the technology means for business applications such as: virtualization, big data analytics, and databases (SQL, Oracle, etc).

The majority of survey respondents who already utilize flash stated that they plan to increase their investment in flash storage over the next 12 months. Enterprise datacenters are now using flash to accelerate core enterprise apps, helping with the heavy lifting in Big Data analytics, and getting transactions processed faster than ever. Join us to learn how this exciting technology is supercharging IT performance from financial services to manufacturing, media, and health care.

Live Event: How Market Participants Can Prevent and Respond To Technology Errors In Real-Time
A Wall Street & Technology and Advanced Trading Webcast:

On October 2, the SEC is holding a market technology roundtable focusing on best practices to ensure adequate testing and use of software systems. The SEC is hoping to determine out the best way to respond to errors in the marketplace, given the speed with which a single error can snowball into market mayhem. Following a number of incidents this year, including Nasdaq’s botched Facebook IPO, BATS’ failed IPO and Knight Capital’s $400 million software disaster, market structure and software testing has become an even higher priority for market participants.

During this live webcast, join editors from Wall Street & Technology and Advanced Trading, along with a panel of industry experts, as they analyze the various points of view raised during that day's SEC Market Technology Roundtable.

Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012-Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

Next Generation Messaging Technology: Helping Firms Trade Smarter and Reduce Costs
An Advanced Trading and Wall Street & Technology Webcast:

The need for the right messaging middleware is more important than ever, as more buy-side firms and broker/dealers seek robust electronic trading strategies with unfailing system reliability and pre-trade analytics to make better trading decisions. But this need comes at a time when technology spending is declining across the capital markets, as firms try to cut costs but still fund strategic new projects. The right messaging middleware can meet all of these challenges.

Register for this live webcast to learn how to gain a competitive edge with your trading applications by using the right messaging software to reduce both IT costs and latency.

Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 / Time: 11 am ET / 16:00 BST

Is Your Finance, Risk and Regulatory Strategy Fractured?
An InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast

External mandates have established the requirements, and business pressures have forced reaction:

- Does your firm understand the impacts of its financial and treasury decisions related to customers, transactions, or asset investments?
- Are conventional accounting (ledger), financing (capital), and treasury (cash/liquidity) practices yielding the desired outcomes while minimizing your firm's risk exposure?

Topics discussed in this webinar include:

- Trends in converging finance, risk and compliance strategies
- Understanding why these intersections are needed
- How firms can begin to develop a cohesive information strategy for success

Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Duration: 60 minutes

High-Frequency Trading: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
An InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast

There is no topic more controversial in today's marketplace than high-frequency trading. Regulators are still wrestling with how to officially define the practice, let alone police it. And in the two years that have elapsed since the flash crash of 2010, market participants of all stripes remain divided on the issue. Firms with longer-term, low-turnover strategies remain suspicious of high-frequency traders, while others hold the view that if it weren't for HFTs, there'd be no liquidity. Join this Advanced Trading Editorial webcast to hear experts from both sides of the issue debate whether HFT is good or bad for the market, and to hear a proposal on how to fix our market's structure for the better.

Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

Duration: 60 minutes

Optimizing Customer Communications and Content Management to Improve Profitability
An Insurance & Technology Webcast
Today's insurers must strive to create an optimal customer experience to reach a savvy and demanding customer base. Customer communications and content management (3CM) are critical components of any customer experience initiative, since documents and information that insureds and prospects receive help shape their overall impression of an insurance organization. Join Insurance & Technology and EMC for this complimentary, one-hour Webcast to learn how insurers can use 3CM solutions to: Streamline customer communications to increase revenue and boost profitability Enhance the customer experience and improve operations Create and implement a successful customer communications and content management strategy Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Duration: 60 Minutes

Netezza, an IBM Company and Revolution R Enterprise vs. the Cloud and R:
Comparing Performance of Distributed Computing Platforms Using Applications in Backtesting FINRA's Limit Up/Down Rules
This webcast is for statisticians, analysts and IT teams responsible for Big Data Analytics who are looking for ways to achieve greater innovation and leapfrog current performance.

Yale researchers Michael Kane, PhD and Casey King, PhD looked at roughly 24 billion trades from 2008-2010 to study the efficacy of the FINRA rules. This webinar will compare three techniques used to meet the challenge that timely analysis of this enormous volume of market data poses.

While each technique meets the challenge of this massively parallel problem, the Netezza, an IBM Company and Revolution R Enterprise solution brings analysis time from months to hours. Join the webcast to learn how they were able to innovate their models and extend their analysis using the integrated solution.

Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Duration: 60 Minutes