Webinar with Forrester: Mobility and the Open Web: Open Standards and Collaboration Redefine Enterprise IT [ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012- Mobility has redefined customers' interaction with a company's products and applications. To address this shift, organizations are leveraging open-source components, development frameworks, open-web technologies; and collaborating by creating developer ecosystems. Featuring Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Research.

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Open Source Governance in Highly Regulated Companies [ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012- Open source software can empower developers, increase innovation and improve competitiveness, and its popularity is growing tremendously. Open source now represents an average of 29% of the code deployed by IT and technology innovators are using 60%-80% of open source code, which can yield cost savings and free-up development resources to improve competitive differentiation. And as open source becomes more common, the need for governance increases dramatically. Without proper controls ...

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Open Source Drives Innovation in Financial Services [ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012- The strategic use of open source software can enable a financial services organization to use up to 60-80% open source software in their enterprise and mobility applications so they can do more and develop less. Yet according to Gartner, the average enterprise today uses only 29% open source code. When a financial services organization is able to put strategy, process and automation around finding, assessing, managing and scaling open source ...

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IT Complexity Metrics - How do you measure up? [ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012- IT Complexity is so important that 'learning through failing' is no longer satisfactory given that this form of complexity so clearly and harshly impacts the cost, delivery quality and flexibility of the IT landscape. We now need a robust and functioning model for complexity measurement and mitigation. This paper describes how Commerzbank, in partnership with Capco, is deriving such a model. We also examine how it can be developed ...

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Uber Architect [ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012- What does a Solution Architect do? In deference to traditional deliverable-based architect role definitions, Solution Architecting spans the SDLC. While SAs are responsible for some deliverables, they primarily configure the required building blocks of the working product. They make transparent a myriad of tough decisions, encourage stakeholder collaboration, break deadlock and resolve difficult issues. SAs have a "line of sight" from ideation through implementation. Figure 1 summarizes the major processes by Project Management Institute (...

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IT Complexity: Measure, Model, Master [ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012- IT complexity: A new metric to evaluate the impact of change What if complexity was a discreet, measurable metric rather than a discretionary, ambiguous term? Could a complexity metric reshape the decisions and activities of a CIO? The information technology field is filled with quotes and anecdotes about organizations trying to contain, explain and manage complexity. Often these words reflect an inclination to ...

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Serving the Gen-Y Customer: 7 Key Technology Challenges for Banks [ Source: Oracle ]
February 2012- Generation Y (Gen-Y) customers are predicted to be tomorrow's wealth accumulators. Their behavior and consumption pattern is different from the earlier generations. Banks will have to adopt different business paradigms to serve them. Gen Yers are technology savvy and prefer swift service. Personalization is high in Gen-Y customers' wish list. Successfully meeting these challenges depends on the agility and efficiency of the bank's IT infrastructure. Most banks are still running on legacy systems which are ...

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Oracle Exadata eBook [ Source: Oracle ]
December 2011- As organizations contend with escalating demands for greater quantities of information, more sophisticated data analysis, and a burgeoning user population, Oracle Exadata makes database workloads faster, easier to manage, and less expensive. Oracle Exadata is the world's first database machine to provide extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. But it's not the quantitative gains that make the ...

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Oracle Exadata in Capital Markets [ Source: Oracle ]
December 2011- Financial reform is pervasive and increasingly more demanding. Its core goal is the reduction of systemic risk through greater transparency, with regulators driving fundamental changes in the depth and breadth of data points needing to be collected and managed to meet progressively complex near-time and real-time reporting requirements. These trends are creating demands on IT that traditional technology solutions cannot meet. The convergence between real-time processing and near/real-time ...

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Practices and Emerging Trends in Asset Liability Management and Liquidity Risk [ Source: Oracle ]
December 2011- Asset Liability Management (ALM) plays a critical role in weaving together the different business lines in a financial institution. Managing liquidity and the balance sheet are crucial to the existence of a financial institution and sustenance of its operations. It is also essential for seamless growth of the balance sheet in a profitable way. In recent times, even large multinational financial institutions were in a deep liquidity crisis and ...

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