Agilysys, a leading provider of IT solutions to corporate and public-sector customers, uses hardware, software, services and financial programs to help you resolve your most complicated IT needs. We specialize in infrastructure optimization, storage and resource management, identity and access management and virtualization. Agilysys holds an Executive Level partnership with Sun Microsystems and operates extensively throughout North America.
Contact: Thomas Ziomek, Agilysys Sun Technology Solutions, 204 Fernwood Avenue, Edison, NJ 08837 . . . 732.692.1919 . . . http://agilysys.com/home/Partners/Sun/
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. It was recently ranked by IDC as the clear leader in enterprise search revenues, with market share nearly double that of its nearest competitor. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis. Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies including: AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Ericsson, FedEx, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyds TSB, NASA, Nestlé, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, Tesco, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec, Citrix, HP, Novell, Oracle, Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide. Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.
Contact: Autonomy, Inc., One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, Suite 1900, San Francisco, CA 94105 . . . 415.243.9955 . . . autonomy@autonomy.com . . . www.autonomy.com
CA Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent information technology (IT) management software company. We help companies manage IT to better perform, compete, innovate and grow their businesses.With our Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and technology, customers can unify IT and simplify the management of complex computing environments, whether distributed or mainframe, across the enterprise. CA software works with customers’ existing infrastructure to better manage risk and costs, improve service and ensure IT is supporting the business. Founded in 1976, CA serves customers in virtually every country in the world and reported fiscal year 2008 revenue of $4.3 billion.
Contact: Mark Bubar, WW Vice President – Financial Services, CA . . . 203.550.4109 . . . Mark.Bubar@ca.com . . . www.ca.com
Coffee Distributing Corp. is the New York metropolitan area’s largest provider of office refreshment solutions. The company carries the widest array of single cup beverage systems in the industry including those by Flavia®, Keurig® and Lavazza®. Coffee is only part of the story at CDC; they also do a huge business in 5 gallon bottled water as well as bottled and canned beverages. Delivery when the customer needs it, not when it suits some arbitrary schedule is one important key to their success.
To find out why more financial firms, banks law firms and corporations look to CDC for their beverage supplies call 800.356.8881 or check their Web site http://www.cdccoffee.com/
Collaborative Software Initiative introduces a market-changing process that applies collaborative methodologies and leverages the power of community to build and deliver innovative enterprise software at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. CSI offers the software to a broader base of customers under the open source licensing or Software as a Service (SaaS) models with commercial support. CSI’s Open Market Data addresses the need for a standards-based architecture for market data infrastructure. It includes interfaces to market data and messaging systems as well as feed handlers and middleware-agnostic APIs. CSI Feed Handler is a collection of market data feed handlers which receive, normalize, manage and integrate real-time market data from exchange feeds like ARCA, ITCH and OPRA. These open feed handler products allow freedom from current proprietary vendor lock-in while optimizing performance. For more information please contact us at info@csinitiative.com.
Contact: Richard Reichgut, Director – Financial Services, Collaborative Software Initiative, 1 SW Columbia Street, Suite 640, Portland, OR 97258 . . . 646.284.5274 . . . richard@csinitiative.com . . . www.csinitiative.com
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Davidsohn Global Technologies, Inc. is a technology firm dedicated to servicing all areas of the financial industry. After half a century of trail-blazing innovation, we have gained the breadth and knowledge to create one of the largest libraries of proprietary systems on Wall Street. In fact, there is a piece of Davidsohn software running in every major financial institution worldwide. Our corporate philosophy continues to be the first in innovation, quality, and preeminent service. Whether you need front-office, middleware, or backoffice systems, (including order execution/trade management, portfolio management, credit risk, clearing and settlement, A/E commission, FluidSeg, BlueSky validation, or practically anything else), Davidsohn Global Technologies, Inc. can provide complete and customizable robust solutions to ensure your company’s success.
Contact: Joseph Davidsohn, President & Chief Executive Officer, Davidsohn Global Technologies, Inc., 55 Broad Street, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10004 . . . 212.208.0100 . . . joseph.davidsohn@davidsohn.com . . . www.davidsohnglobal.com
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For financial professionals, the thirst for fast and trustworthy information is unquenchable. Whether it’s a wealth manager contacting prospects, a trader taking big positions or a fund manager rebalancing a portfolio, market participants require a wide range of news, delivery and customizable solutions. Dow Jones is one of the world’s most innovative solutions providers for financial enterprises. We filter, aggregate and integrate our content into your existing workflow, applications, and online channels, provide robust business development tools, deliver ultra low latency data feeds, and offer flexible delivery options that let you receive Dow Jones content on the market data platforms that work best for you. With our global reach, renowned editorial expertise, fast delivery, and integration experience, Dow Jones brings market-focused news, information and data to financial professionals that give you assurance in your market decisions and a real-time advantage in creating opportunities. Contact: Dow Jones . . . 800.369.0166 . . . newswires@dowjones.com . . . www.dowjones.com
Epsilon is the industry's leading marketing services firm. We combine a world-class, multi-channel and database-driven approach with services strategic services and proven techniques to maximize marketing success. Couple that with award winning creative agency services and the power of the world's most extensive collection of consumer and business data for the most comprehensive marketing solutions available today.
Contact: Donald Gates, Vice President – Strategic Accounts, Epsilon, 532 Old Country Lane, Cabot, AR 72023 . . . 501.258.5533 . . . dgates@epsilon.com . . . www.epsilon.com
As the leading global provider of enterprise search technologies found behind the scenes at the world’s top financial institutions, FAST, A Microsoft® Subsidiary, provides the most flexible and scalable search platform available. The FAST ESP product provides a 360° view of valuable business knowledge in real-time, leading to better decisions and client relationships. By making enterprise information and data far more accessible, relevant and effective for their producers, top financial firms can launch profitable new services, strengthen customer loyalty and improve employee productivity. With products that enable customer cross-sell and up-sell, boost information discovery, and improve loss avoidance, FAST is helping innovative companies widen their lead over competitors.
Contact: Brooks Gibbins, Senior Vice President –WW Financial Services, FAST, A Microsoft® Subsidiary, 142 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 . . . 646.792.0228 . . . www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch
GoldenSource makes it easy to manage critical reference and market data. We offer an integrated Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform for the securities and investment management industry. Our innovative products are designed to create, maintain and distribute a trusted golden copy. Our unique data model covers all financial instruments, customers and counterparties, and extends to transactions and positions. The ability to connect, organize and aggregate trusted information reduces risk, drives better decisions and helps our customers achieve their goals. GoldenSource solutions are used by forward-looking banks, brokers, investment managers and service providers to reconcile tactical departmental goals and strategic enterprise objectives. A proven supplier of on premises EDM solutions to the world’s largest financial institutions, GoldenSource also powers managed data services via the innovative Powered by GoldenSource™.
Contact: Neil Edelstein, GoldenSource Corporation . . . 212.798.7110 . . . nedelstein@thegoldensource.com or Gert Raeves, GoldenSource Corporation . . . +44.0.20.7977.6011 . . . graeves@thegoldensource.com . . . www.thegoldensource.com
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For nearly a century, IBM has been working with the world’s leading financial services institutions, building industry skills and making research and development investments specifically tuned to the needs of the global financial markets. Drawing on this experience and a proven history, IBM offers a wide range of technologies, software, services, research and Business Partner applications. Simplify and streamline operations, integrate risk management and drive new insights, resulting in sustainable revenue growth. We’re ready to assemble the right components to help you capitalize on innovation and develop smarter solutions. For more information, go to ibm.com/financialmarkets.
Contact: Jim Brill, Manager – Global Financial Services Sector Marketing, IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 . . . ibm.com/financialmarkets
Kx Systems was launched in 1993 in response to the challenges of managing ever-growing volumes of data. Our first database product, kdb, was introduced in 1998. After 5 years of continued production use at major financial firms, in 2003, kx released our second generation database, kdb+. kdb+ is a native 64-bit product uniquely suited to the needs of the real-time enterprise. It is equally adept at handling streaming data as well as data on disk. kdb+ is a single solution to the myriad demands for a functional real-time business database.
Contact: John Conneely, Vice President – Sales, Kx Systems, 245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167 . . . 212.792.4238 . . . www.kx.com
Linedata Services (Bloomberg: LIN:FP) is the global leader for investment software, solutions, and support. Linedata combines technological innovation, financial strength, and a deep understanding of the Asset Management, Leasing & Credit Finance, and Insurance & Savings industries. Linedata Services’ asset management division provides comprehensive, scalable solutions to the buy-side, to manage the entire investment process from pre-trade to post-settlement. Linedata is unique in offering a full front- to back-office solution via enterprise installation, or as an Application Service Provider (“software as services” or “service bureau” delivery), and has 20 years experience delivering ASP solutions. Headquartered in France, Linedata Services achieved revenues of EUR 160.7 million in 2008, has offices worldwide and services more than 800 clients across 50 countries. For more information visit Linedata Services corporate site at www.linedata.com.
Contact: www.linedata.com
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Helping our financial services customers reduce IT costs is an important way that Microsoft enables them to reduce financial pressures and position themselves for future success. However, IT expenses are typically only a small part of total operating expenses. To survive, financial services companies must also work hard to reduce their business operating costs. To help our customers thrive in the new economy, therefore, Microsoft is changing the conversation from a focus on technology to a focus on driving business impact and how we can help the lines of business achieve their goals. We have developed solutions to key industry business challenges that can help companies improve their business performance. And these are not small value solutions. Rather, we have solutions that have reduced business operating costs by several million, $70 million and even more than $100 million over a 5-year period.
Contact: Craig Saint-Amour, Industry Solutions Director, Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th FL, New York, NY 10104 . . . 646.225.4639 . . . craigsa@microsoft.com . . . microsoft.com/capitalmarkets
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For over 40 years, Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions is a leading provider of convergent voice and electronic trading infrastructure and services for the trading communities. It is an international subsidiary of the Orange Group, employing over 450 people in the 13 worldwide major financial centres and supported by a global network of distributors in 50 countries offering customers 24/7 service. With a focus on building long-term partnerships with customers we bring innovative solutions and the highest quality services. It provides optimised solutions over our dedicated trading network to a community of more than 2,000 network member organisations, encompassing buy-side and sell side institutions and trading venues. We offer flexible trading products and services including state of the art, unified voice trading solutions with over 40,000 turrets in play featuring user’s programmable interfaces, touch screens and voice/instant messaging recording solutions.
Contact: Francois de Malartic, Senior Vice-President, Etrali North America, Orange Business Services- Trading Solutions, 2 World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, Suite 4301, New York, NY 10281 . . . 212.593.3838 . . . francois.demalartic@orange-ftgroup.com . . .
http://www.orange-business.com/trading-solutions
Penson Financial Services, Inc. provides execution, clearing, settlement, custody and technology services to retail and institutional broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms, and registered investment advisers. With a global presence, underscored by local expertise, Penson is a leading provider of products and services to financial firms around the world. Penson—Building the Best Clearing and Execution Services Firm in the World.
Contact: Sean Malloy, Senior Vice President – Sales & Marketing, Penson Financial Services, Inc., 1700 Pacific Avenue, Suite 1400, Dallas, TX 75201 . . . 800.696.3585 . . . smalloy@penson.com or Dan Weingarten, Senior Vice President – Sales & Marketing, Penson Financial Services, Inc. . . . 800.696.3585 . . . dweingarten@penson.com . . . www.penson.com
Platform Computing, the global leader in grid and cloud solutions for financial services institutions provides software that dynamically connects IT resources to workload demand according to business policies. Their flagship financial services product, Platform Symphony, has emerged as the market leading software to support the demanding requirements of key banking processes such as risk calculations and pre-trade pricing. It leverages a utility service model that provides a powerful sharing capability delivering higher resource utilization and reduced costs while ensuring business service levels are met. Over 2,000 of the world’s largest organizations rely on their solutions to improve IT productivity and reduce data center costs, including the world’s largest banks. Platform has strategic relationships with Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, and SAS. Building on 17 years of market leadership, Platform continues to help data centers be more efficient, responsive and dynamic.
Contact: Jim Mancuso, General Manager – Financial Services, Platform Computing, 845 Third Avenue, 6th FL, New York NY 10022 . . . 646.290.5159 . . . jmancuso@platform.com . . . www.platform.com
PriceMetrix focuses exclusively on improving the overall business of investment firms by helping individual financial advisors to become better ‘CEOs’ of their business. The PriceMetrix ValueOne Program is a patented combination of business intelligence reports, practice management tools and expert services designed solely to enable advisors and managers, at all levels, to proactively identify and close client, product and pricing opportunities. PriceMetrix customers typically realize increases in assets, revenue and fee-based advisory business, as well as improvements in pricing. Founded in 2000, PriceMetrix has its principal place of business in Toronto, Ontario and services a broad range of clients within Canada and the United States.
Contact: Harold Westervelt, Vice President – Sales, PriceMetrix Inc., 40 University Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, ON, M5J 1T1, Canada . . . 416.955.0514 ext. 265 . . . harold.westervelt@pricemetrix.com . . . www.pricemetrix.com
Qualtrics Labs, Inc. is a pioneer in enterprise feedback management and survey software. Qualtrics is easy enough for an intern and sophisticated enough for any PhD. Qualtrics makes it possible for any organization to make information-based decisions. In an increasingly competitive world, organizations that survive must be driven by real data. For this reason, Qualtrics is used by the worlds leading universities, businesses and philanthropic organizations. Wharton, Kellog, and Yale demand their cutting-edge research be supported by a tool innovative, comprehensive and intuitive enough to perform experimental research. TIAA-Cref, ABC, and Royal Bank of Canada benefit from privately branded survey solutions. Qualtrics has 85 questions types and has the most advanced logic capabilities in the world.
Contact: Daniel T. Watkins, Qualtrics, Inc. . . . 801.374.6682 ext. 6911 . . . dwatkins@qualtrics.com . . . www.qualtrics.com
RCN Metro, http://www.rcnmetro.com, is a premier provider of high-capacity transport services for carriers as well as large and medium-sized businesses. RCN Metro offers a comprehensive suite of services including: Ethernet, SONET, Wavelength, Video Transport, Internet and more. With a network leveraging unique rights-of-way, spanning from Maine to Virginia and out to Chicago, RCN Metro deploys custom solutions to service providers as well as companies in the finance, hospitality, media, government, health care and education industries. RCN Metro is a wholly owned division of RCN Corporation.
Contact: Maura Mahoney, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, RCN Metro Optical Networks, 2200 West Park Drive, Westborough, MA 01581 . . . 508.621.1869 . . . maura.mahoney@rcnmetro.com . . . Walter Terbrusch, Director, Enterprise & Financial Sales, RCN Metro Optical Networks, 55 Broad Street, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10004 . . . 212. 324.5011 . . . walter.terbrusch@rcnmetro.com . . . www.rcnmetro.com
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com
Contact: Red Hat Inc., 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606 . . . 919.754.3700 . . . financial@redhat.com . . . www.redhat.com
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A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com. Financial Institutions have historically looked to Sun to provide technology innovation and leadership. Sun is working with leading application partners to address the latency and performance issues across the end-to-end trade process. Reducing latency within and between market data and trading systems with Solaris 10 features like DTrace for observability and Containers for application consolidation. For more information contact: capmarkets-solutions@sun.com.
Contact: Sun Microsystems, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 . . . capmarkets-solutions@sun.com . . . www.sun.com/finance
Wall Street & Technology- For over 30 years industry professionals have been relying on WS&T to understand how the strategic use of technology is shaping the business landscape they operate in. Coverage spans from front to back office, the buy side and sell side, as well exchanges, clearing firms, and other industry constituents. Our award-winning editorial team's mission is to deliver the insightful news, analysis, research, and thought-provoking features needed to keep capital markets executives ahead of the ever-changing business technology curve. With 21,000+ publication subscribers, 65,000+ unique users on WS&T’s site each month, and 22,000+ daily email newsletter subscribers, it’s clear that the WS&T is the trusted brand that is connected into every office and every corner of the market. Reach. Trust. Media Expertise > It’s why we’re the leading marketing partner for industry’s vendor community. www.wallstreetandtech.com
Advanced Trading is the industry’s award-winning media brand designed to help traders and trading technology executives navigate the ever-changing trading landscape. Through its coverage algorithmic trading, exchanges, dark pools, TCA, trading regulations, OMS/EMS, market data, trading tools and infrastructure, the brand has garnered a loyal following. Advanced Trading’s publication reaches 30,000+ traders and senior business and technology managers from buy-side, and sell-side firms. Advanced Trading’s website has 35,000+ unique users every month and over 8,000 industry execs receive AT’s daily newsletter. When it come to the world of electronic trading there’s no media brand that covers it as intelligently as Advanced Trading.
Reach. Trust. Media Expertise > It’s why we’re the leading marketing partner of the vendor community. www.advancedtrading.com
Contact: John Ecke, Vice President - Group Publisher, Wall Street & Technology, 11 West 19th Street, 3rd FL, New York, NY 10011 . . . 212.600.3097 . . . jecke@techweb.com . . . www.wallstreetandtech.com