To read part one of this guest contribution please click here. Guest Contributor: Andrew Peddar, North American CEO of StatPro Creating a bright future Investors are anticipating growth as the shockwave of the Great Recession settles. Cloud-based technology is well-positioned to handle RIAs ambitions because it provides productivity gains – the service can be accessed at
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RIAs: Moving on up – to the Cloud Part I
Guest Contributor: Andrew Peddar, North American CEO, StatPro Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) have long relied on one of two choices for portfolio analytics and reporting: enterprise wide technologies and services or niche technologies. While enterprise technologies are packaged with lots of functionality, the functionality often doesn’t meet the granular needs of the advisor and lack
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Kiwis Still Unsure of the Cloud
Cloud computing is a topic that we’ve covered a number of times on The Bull Run (see our dedicated Cloud category) and at our annual Cloud Computing Breakfast Briefings, but when my New Zealand-bred husband showed me a recent article from one of his favorite web sites, www.Stuff.co.nz, about how far behind New Zealand is
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Cloud Computing & Outsourcing
I read an article this week by Bob McDowall of Aite Group asking the reader “is cloud computing taking over Indian outsourcers?” Personally, I think it’s too soon to definitively say that the cloud is a threat to outsourcing as we currently know it, but nonetheless, it’s an interesting thought. Over the next few years,
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The Cloud – A New Era of Innovation, Productivity and Service
The Cloud – a new era of innovation, productivity and service. That’s what we all took away from Financial Technologies Forum’s Cloud Computing on Wall Street Breakfast Briefing this past Tuesday in NYC. Thanks goes out to all the attendees for making this event so great and for participating in the open forum discussions around
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Exploring Public & Private Clouds
(Guest Contributor: Brian McCallion, global performance architect at AIG.) Cloud computing has essentially been private from the beginning. Google, for one, demonstrates that the world’s most successful search engine runs not on an IBM Power, Sun Enterprise, or other massively powerful machine engineered for business by the go-to vendors for computer solutions. More in keeping
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Cloud Computing: Welcome to the Buy-Side
Guest Contributor: Mike Wilkins, Industry Expert Cloud computing’s impact on financial technology is at the forefront of everyone’s mind these days, from the pinstriped bankers on Wall Street to the hoodie and jeans crowd on LaSalle Street. As the geek humor bit goes, we all know the cloud’s gone mainstream when Microsoft is running commercials
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Wrap-Up of 2011 Financial Services and Technology Predictions
It seems we have been inundated recently with news stories and blogs on what’s to come in 2011. A number of individuals and companies are coming out with their predications and Top 10 lists for what to expect in the New Year. To make it a little easier and more manageable for everyone, we compiled
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Small Firms are Riding the Cloud to Better Social Media
For the time being small firms are making the most of the new social media outlets. Due to compliance policies, or the lack thereof, larger firms are unable to spread their firm’s name and/or their specific expertise through any blog posts or a ‘tweet’ here and there. So the small firms (around 25 people and
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No Such Thing as a Safe Bet – What About Cloud Computing?
With the market constantly going up and down, and back up and back down, and who knows where tomorrow, people are having a tough time deciding where would be a safe place to invest their money. Which stocks should you purchase so you don’t have to wake up worrying that your investment has gone down
