Leverage the Value Locked Up in "Big Data" [ Source: Savvis ]
April 2012- Financial services firms are increasingly facing the challenge of "Big Data": unprecedented quantities of structured and unstructured data stored in a variety of systems and formats. Though "big" might mean different things to different firms, all companies report that more data is coming in all the time from disparate systems.

Several issues stand in the way of financial services firms making optimal use of the data they gather - e.g. regulatory requirements, ...

Girard Securities Improves Reporting and Client Service While Keeping Costs Down with Advent Portfolio Exchange through Advent OnDemand [ Source: Advent Software ]
June 2010- Mr. Foote was familiar with Advent from a past experience with another broker/dealer. “From my experience, I knew that Advent was the best in the industry for portfolio accounting,” he says. “Advent’s reporting tools and customization capabilities were what I was looking for. The flexibility was the main draw.” “From my experience, I knew that Advent was the best in the industry for portfolio accounting. Advent’s reporting tools and customization capabilities were ...

Ten questions to ask before choosing an outsourcing investment performance reporting provider. [ Source: Advent Software ]
January 2010- Look before you leap. Ten questions to ask before choosing an outsourcing provider for investment performance reporting. There are many reasons why outsourcing may be the right answer for your firm. These are just ten of them. Q: What’s the real quality of their performance reporting? Q: Do they offer you a flexible range of options? Q: How good is their service and support? Outsourcing can be complicated, but it need not be. Here ...

Business Insight Podcast: Understanding Business Process Utility [ Source: WNS Global Services ]
February 2009- In this podcast, we discuss with Manish Vora the latest trends in finance and accounting outsourcing, clearly one of the fastest-growing areas in the outsourcing scene. We also talk to Manish about business process utility. With contradicting reports about demand for F&A services either increasing or declining -- hear from someone who is front and center selling these services to clients, and who can discuss what's really being seen out there.

Business Process Outsourcing: An Effective Solution for Managing Producer Licensing [ Source: Kaplan Financial ]
May 2008- Financial services companies increasingly are seeking efficiencies through Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), the end-to-end outsourcing of a business line or process. BPO clearly enhances control over business performance, whether by reducing costs, increasing the quality of processes, accelerating transformation throughout a business, creating a more flexible response to sudden external stresses, or through a combination of several benefits2. With BPO, the relationship between the company and the outsourcer changes as the latter becomes more of ...