I've been back on the road visiting file transfer customers and there's growing concern out there about the ability to track and predict failure against defined service level agreements (SLAs). In general, I'm seeing most SLAs in our industry cleave to one or more of...
The age of electronic execution has brought with it a niggling problem - fat fingered trading. A fast-paced, stressful trading environment creates an ideal incubator for hatching mistakes. They are often simple mistakes and involve pressing the wrong key on the keyboard, possibly at the wrong time...
A general theme for this blog is how organisations are having to become more responsive, whether to customers, competition, regulation or to squeeze further operational efficiencies out of processes. I want to talk about some of the likely areas of innovation in retail and wholesale banking...
It takes a lot to get to the cloud, as I pointed out in my previous blog post. Educating yourself, as well as determining how the cloud will affect you, will help lead you to the next step – which is determining which cloud approach is right for you.
Cloud computing comes in three forms: public,...
As an application architect or developer who uses JAVA/SQL, a Salesforce.com admin, or even a CIO, maybe you’ve thought about using a cloud-based data source, maybe you haven’t. Either way, you’ve probably been watching the excitement around the concept build to an all-time high – particularly with...