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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.
Sponsored by:<...
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats.
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
Making Multi-Prime Work for You
[ Source: Advent Software ]
April 2009-
Based on conversations with leading hedge funds, prime
brokers, and fund administrators, we firmly believe that
investor assets and returns can no longer remain vulnerable
to the risk of the single-prime model. To effectively
manage business and thrive in today�s rapidly evolving
market, it is imperative that funds operate within a multiprime
model to mitigate potential risk and manage transaction
costs effectively.
This is the opening installment of a series and shares our
findings ...
International Financial Reporting
[ Source: Advent Software ]
April 2009-
This document is intended to introduce hedge funds and
hedge fund service providers to International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS) and to help them understand
major differences between them and U.S. GAAP. The
information here will also educate them on potential
impacts to their organization when adopting the international
standard, including considerations for accounting
systems. Finally, the document will educate firms about
Advent�s portfolio accounting system, Geneva,� and its
currently available capabilities for supporting ...
Optimizing the OTC Pricing and Valuation Infrastructure
[ Source: FINCAD ]
May 2010-
The bespoke nature of OTC derivatives and structured deals makes pricing and risk evaluation an extraordinary challenge. Traditionally, due to prohibitive costs and the limited number of options available, most banks, asset managers, and hedge funds overcame this obstacle by depending on broker-dealers to furnish prices for instruments with more complex payout structures. In recent years, however, the industry has seen banks and investment firms build up their own pricing and valuation capabilities to counter ...
Structured Products in Wealth Management
[ Source: Tata Consultancy Services ]
October 2008-
This paper stresses the importance of having Structured Products as an asset class in the portfolio, or having it as a standalone product for the clients and the pros and cons of offering a structured product, for an Investment Bank or Asset Management Company.
The paper also discusses the key factors that would affect the investment banks, their target customers, challenges investment banks face, their growth opportunities and strategies.Finally, this paper discusses about a ...
Real-time Data Feeds: Creating a Competitive Differentiator Through Event-Driven Trading
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
November 2011-
There's money in the microsecond. Traders today realize that market-moving insights can be gleaned from an ever-growing pool of unstructured data. Leading firms use complex strategies powered by machine readable news to compete in the low-latency space. Automated event-driven trading exploits market inefficiencies or volatility that arises in response to breaking news, economic releases and other events. While the average time it takes for news stories to move markets today is about 4 seconds, Bloomberg's Event-Driven ...
Real-time Data Feeds: Creating a Competitive Differentiator Through Event-Driven Trading
[ Source: Bloomberg ]
November 2011-
There's money in the microsecond. Traders today realize that market-moving insights can be gleaned from an ever-growing pool of unstructured data. Leading firms use complex strategies powered by machine readable news to compete in the low-latency space. Automated event-driven trading exploits market inefficiencies or volatility that arises in response to breaking news, economic releases and other events. While the average time it takes for news stories to move markets today is about 4 seconds, Bloomberg's Event-Driven ...
The Evolving Role of The Buy-Side Trader
[ Source: SunGard Financial Systems ]
April 2010-
SunGard recently commissioned a study on the evolving role of the buy-side trader in today’s dynamic economic environment, identifying challenges faced by traders today as well as those that need to be anticipated tomorrow. Based on their findings, SunGard concluded that choosing the right strategic technology partner while embracing new solutions is essential to tackling these challenges.
SunGard’s Valdi helps firms trade multiple asset classes and source new liquidity for growth while managing ...
SunGard Valdi
[ Source: SunGard Financial Systems ]
April 2010-
SunGard recently commissioned a study on the evolving role of the buy-side trader in today’s dynamic economic environment, identifying challenges faced by traders today as well as those that must be anticipated tomorrow. Based on their findings, SunGard concluded that choosing the right strategic technology partner while embracing new solutions is essential to tackling these challenges.
SunGard’s Valdi helps firms trade multiple asset classes and source new liquidity for growth while managing costs. ...
Optimizing the OTC Pricing and Valuation Infrastructure
[ Source: FINCAD ]
May 2010-
The bespoke nature of OTC derivatives and structured deals makes pricing and risk evaluation an extraordinary challenge. Traditionally, due to prohibitive costs and the limited number of options available, most banks, asset managers, and hedge funds overcame this obstacle by depending on broker-dealers to furnish prices for instruments with more complex payout structures. In recent years, however, the industry has seen banks and investment firms build up their own pricing and valuation capabilities to counter ...
Making Multi-Prime Work for You
[ Source: Advent Software ]
April 2009-
Based on conversations with leading hedge funds, prime
brokers, and fund administrators, we firmly believe that
investor assets and returns can no longer remain vulnerable
to the risk of the single-prime model. To effectively
manage business and thrive in today�s rapidly evolving
market, it is imperative that funds operate within a multiprime
model to mitigate potential risk and manage transaction
costs effectively.
This is the opening installment of a series and shares our
findings ...
International Financial Reporting
[ Source: Advent Software ]
April 2009-
This document is intended to introduce hedge funds and
hedge fund service providers to International Financial
Reporting Standards (IFRS) and to help them understand
major differences between them and U.S. GAAP. The
information here will also educate them on potential
impacts to their organization when adopting the international
standard, including considerations for accounting
systems. Finally, the document will educate firms about
Advent�s portfolio accounting system, Geneva,� and its
currently available capabilities for supporting ...
The Enterprise Spreadsheet: Pushing Toward Transparency
[ Source: Microsoft ]
February 2009-
In the midst of the current market turmoil, there are initial signs that institutions will need to adapt to the following trends: transparency, risk management and diffusion.
Transparency will come in the form of additional reporting requirements. Improvement to risk management will lead to a better understanding of market risk and operational controls; a popular mantra will be updated to read: “Know your client, know your counterparty better.” Despite the wave of consolidation and contraction ...
Structured Products Gain Traction in Eastern Europe
[ Source: Orc Software ]
December 2008-
Eastern European financial markets are increasingly looking beyond equities and other “plain vanilla” investment products. As markets mature, a move to more sophisticated investment products follows naturally. The current economic unrest has accelerated this trend. Trading in warrants, certificates and other structured products is now growing rapidly across Continental and Eastern Europe. From this follows an increasing need for technology to support “financial engineering.”
Orc Futures Spreading Webinar
[ Source: Orc Software ]
February 2009-
Futures spreading requires speed and sophistication. As more and more firms seek to identify and trade on short-lived opportunities, trading firms are looking for technologies that help them gain an edge. Orc Algorithmic Trading is helping these firms to get that edge.
This half-hour web session shows how firms are using Orc's algorithmic trading engine for high frequency, ultra low latency futures spreading.
Structured Products in Wealth Management
[ Source: Tata Consultancy Services ]
October 2008-
This paper stresses the importance of having Structured Products as an asset class in the portfolio, or having it as a standalone product for the clients and the pros and cons of offering a structured product, for an Investment Bank or Asset Management Company.
The paper also discusses the key factors that would affect the investment banks, their target customers, challenges investment banks face, their growth opportunities and strategies.Finally, this paper discusses about a ...
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