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There is a new kind of emotional disorder going around the financial markets - the previously unnamed fear of something ominous now that new financial rules have been laid down. Let's call it regulation anxiety.

Regulation anxiety has led to all sorts of new types of behavior in banks...

As we approach the end of 2010 and we begin to see a tiny crack of light at the end of the financial crisis tunnel, there are many theories as to which technologies will lead us into the next phase of advancement in financial markets. Stubborn issues with latency, high frequency trading, real-time...

Salesforce.com integration has been the driving force behind numerous projects and enterprise initiatives. Mapping the Saleforce.com mapping model, standard objects and core calls, in particular the Salesforce.com Object Query Language (SOQL) can be a major stumbling block for many...

On November 18 and 19 I had the great pleasure of attending and speaking at the EMEA PUG Challenge conference in Cologne, Germany. This was put on through a collaboration by the various the Progress user groups in Europe.

This was a truly outstanding event. It was extremely well organized,...

As businesses strive to achieve operational responsiveness, they need to make sure that business stakeholders and IT have the ability to collectively define business processes and deploy those processes as applications accessible via the Internet. That’s where...

The FBI has raided some heavy hitters this week (http://tinyurl.com/238hrph), with three well-known hedge funds getting their doors rammed in, figuratively speaking. This could be the tip of the iceberg in all-encompassing insider trading investigation...

It may seem odd to talk about contracts and SOA in the same sentence, but without them experienced enterprise architects and integration developers understand the negative consequences that will ripple through the business.

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) requires establishing...