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Top 3 CIO Challenges for 2017

Hard to believe that it’s November 2016 already, isn’t it? For many organizations, it’s time to start thinking about information technology budgets, and goals for the following fiscal year. The Digitization Driver According to the 2017 CIO Agenda Report, one of the biggest forces impacting business today is digitization. With digitization, traditional linear organization flows, […]

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The Retail – Technology Ecosystem

In today’s retail environment, there is greater competition than ever before. Consumers have unprecedented opportunity to research products, price and availability, and subsequently shop the world with the click of a mouse. Loyalty – previously presumed according to proximity, familiarity and habit – is at a premium. As a result, retailers have been forced to […]

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Why Oracle Exadata

Businesses of all types double the amount of data they generate and store each year. Between capacity needs and inquiry slowdowns, this data explosion can have significant cost implications for enterprises across all industries, particularly those using Big Data for business planning, customer service and intelligence. Increased data requirements are leading 83 percent of all […]

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Technology in the Financial Process Ecosystem

Prior to the financial meltdown in 2008, many financial trade operations were managed manually. However in 2011, Dodd-Frank and other regulatory initiatives mandated increased transparency across all aspects of the financial services office – front, middle and back. Moreover, trade activities have continued to grow rapidly with the start of the economic recovery. As a […]

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How Outsourcing Helps Your Bottom Line

We are often asked how outsourcing can help a business’ bottom line. We took a few minutes to put together this quick video that explains how outsourcing can help your business achieve it’s fullest potential. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. By letting us handle technology, you can focus on what you […]

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IT For the Entire Financial Services Office

For institutions in the banking, financial services and insurance sector, technology projects are often siloed. They tend to exist exclusively in the front office, middle office and back office. More often than not, it is the front office – the client facing operations which directly drive profits – that gets most of the technology attention. […]

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The 3 Biggest IT Challenges in BFSI

The banking, financial services and insurance industry has experienced substantial shifts over the past ten years. Perhaps more than any other sector, market forces are requiring custodial banking, asset management and other financial institutions to invest in technology at a rapid rate. These changes are occurring in diverse areas, requiring wide ranging staffing expertise, making […]