Microsoft at SIFMA Tech 2008
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Microsoft for high-performance computing
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 combines the power of a Windows 64-bit server platform with rich, out-of-the-box functionality to improve the productivity and reduce the complexity of your high-performance computer (HPC) environment. Windows HPC Server 2008 provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing infrastructure.
Mobile solutions for capital markets with Windows Mobile
The Microsoft Windows Mobile platform can help simplify your day-to-day operations by easily working with your existing Microsoft infrastructure and extending a familiar set of tools to mobile users and support staff in your organization.
BT: Changing the customer experience
BT's Voice Trading and Collaboration solution is an innovative range of products, services, and technology developed to enhance your trading room. Innovative user devices and applications increase your traders' efficiency and access with ground-breaking functionality. This makes collaboration with colleagues easier and quicker than ever before.
GigaSpaces: Accelerating innovation
Excel that Scales is a joint GigaSpaces/Microsoft solution for high-end Microsoft Excel users in financial services. It allows enterprises to harness the power of their data center to scale their Excel-based applications by:
| • | Offloading the data from Excel to the GigaSpaces Memory Cloud. |
| • | Moving the logic from the worksheets to run in parallel, close to the data. |
The benefits are enormous: from shielding traders and analysts from desktop and server failures and allowing them to dramatically reduce processing times to enabling real-time decision-making and freeing up desktop resources, and more. GigaSpaces Technologies is a leading provider of scalability solutions for .Net, C++ and Java. The company's flagship product, GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), is a next-generation application server built for today's most demanding enterprise and Web applications.
Lab49 and Coral8: Driving performance management/business intelligence
Lab49 helps our clients effect positive change in their markets through technological innovation and a rich fabric of industry best practices and first-hand experience. From next-generation trading platforms and innovative risk aggregation and reporting systems to entirely new investment ventures, Lab49 designs and delivers some of the most sophisticated and forward-thinking financial applications in the industry.
We enable our clients to realize new business opportunities and gain competitive advantage through our comprehensive engineering and industry expertise.
Complex event processing (CEP) software from Coral8 delivers the competitive edge investment services firms seek. The Coral8 Engine enables high-throughput, low-latency processing and analysis of investment data.
The Coral8 Engine replaces the lengthy and costly process of custom-coding real-time market data analytics and algorithmic trading applications. This dramatically lowers the cost of building these applications, speeds time to market, and enables IT teams to support the needs of business units through faster delivery of trading applications.
ClusterSeven: Managing risk and compliance
Providing controlled agility and integrity for your information supply chain, ClusterSeven helps you manage spreadsheets and Microsoft Access databases. Its technology helps firms balance their governance, risk, and regulatory compliance (GRC) obligations with the need for revenue generation, staff efficiency, and productivity.
Governance that works: Prevention versus cure
Faster business results: Including new products to market or financials to close
Avoidance of IT waste: Innovative user-developed applications to buy time or fill the gap without overwhelming IT resources
Business insight: Whether five stars or one star, the information on your spreadsheet cinema extravaganza is critical and available through ClusterSeven.
Eikos Partners: Improving operational excellence
Operational excellence is a factor of the delivery of effective and efficient processes. Within applications design and delivery, one of the key areas that affect one's ability to meet the goals of operational excellence is how the user interacts with the system. Eikos Partners has the skills to architect solutions that can help you gain the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach as well as apply its expertise to a dynamic improvement in how users interact with solutions.
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