“When trades are reconciled with counterparties and then closed, updates can and do occur. Bitemporal helps ensure investment banks can always go back and see when updates occurred for specific trades. This is critical to managing risk and handling increased concerns about regulatory compliance and future audits. “– Stephen Buxton. MarkLogic recently released MarkLogic 8. […]
“Digital labor is the name for a new class of tools that can automate routine cognitive tasks. The benefits of automation are similar to previous waves. Many years ago I helped automate a reconciliation function for a large asset manager. Humans took authorization reports from their investment control system and matched them against the confirmations […]
“It is too soon to call the operational DBMS market a commodity market, but it’s easy to see a future where that is the case.”–Nick Heudecker. I have interviewed Nick Heudecker, Research Director on Gartner’s Data & Analytics team. The main topic of the interview is the new Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. […]
“From my perspective, data quality is paramount to an evolving market. When the quality of data improves in a market, both insurance carriers and consumers can make better decisions. “–Charles Kaminski Jr. I have interviewed Charles Kaminski Jr., Sr. Architect at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Main topics of the interview are the technological challenges the insurance industry is currently facing, fraud detection, […]
“Data integration isn’t just about moving data from one place to another. It’s about building an actionable, operational view on data that comes from multiple sources so you can integrate the combined data into your operations rather than just looking at it later as you would in a typical warehouse project.” — David Gorbet. I have […]
“Assembling a team with the wide range of skills needed for a successful IoT project presents an entirely different set of challenges. The skills needed to build a ‘thing’ are markedly different than the skills needed to implement the data analytics in the cloud.”–Steve Graves. I have interviewed, Steve Graves, co-founder and CEO of McObject. Main […]
“When the Institute began to look for a new platform, it became apparent that a relational database was not the best solution to effectively manage and deliver our XML content.”–Martin Lambe. The Irish Tax Institute is the leading representative and educational body for Ireland’s AITI Chartered Tax Advisers (CTA) and is the only professional body […]
“CABI has a proud history (we were founded in 1910) of serving the needs of agricultural researchers around the world, and it is fascinating to see how technology can now help to achieve our development mission. We can have much greater impact at scale these days on the lives of poor farmers around the world […]
“The type of data we see the most is market data, which comes from exchanges like the NYSE, dark pools and other trading platforms. This data may consist of many billions of records of trades and quotes of securities with up to nanosecond precision — which can translate into many terabytes of data per day.”–Simon […]
“In normal English usage the word resilience is taken to mean the power to resume original shape after compression; in the context of data base management the term data base resilience is defined as the ability to return to a previous state after the occurrence of some event or action which may have changed that […]
