The Summit
November 2012
Summit Venue
The FST Summit is a two-and-a-half-day event bringing together C-level technology executives from the financial services industry. In its sixth year, the unique and professional forum has been used as a rewarding discussion and learning platform by hundreds of the industry's leading CIOs and CTOs.
White Papers
Mahindra Satyam: Cloud Enabled Value at Risk Solution
Financial Institutions all around the world are strengthening their risk functions from the back office to a strategic role. This has been marked by the gradual evolution of the risk function from the silo-ed risk manager attached to a desk to the Chief Risk Officer having jurisdiction across trading, fund management, marketing, operations and IT. One of the key drivers of this change is the increased regulatory requirements such as the Dodd-Frank act and the Basel III norms which are emphasizing the need to take a holistic view of risk faced by the firm across the enterprise. The regulations are also increasing the reporting requirements in terms of both the amount and type of information which needs to be reported to the regulators.
Mahindra Satyam: Mobility in Financial Services に A New Range of Possibilities
Mobile technologies bring with them several unique characteristics based on the complex mobility ecosystem and the ever-expanding device capabilities. Understanding the diverse challenges and taking a first-mover advantage of the opportunities presented by mobility and other closely associated emerging technologies will provide excellent opportunities for financial institutions to reconnect with their customers and drive revenue growth in the near future.
Booz Allen Hamilton: Making Cloud a Reality
Booz Allen Hamilton: The Three Pillars of Trust
The first decades of the Internet devoted few resources to online trust. According to Internet pioneers, "early networks...were purpose-built-i.e., they were intended for, and largely restricted to, closed communities of scholars...."2 There was no perceived need to engineer trust into the Internet. Today, hundreds of millions of strangers globally use the Internet, which has become an indispensable tool for business and leisure alike. Businesses now devote considerable resources to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Internet-based transaction systems. Consumers have growing awareness of online risks, but it is hard for them to control all online trust issues when Web sites and social networks automatically splice together a myriad of services that operate mostly "under the hood." Despite best intentions, there are still too many stories of breaches that impede the public's trust in using the Internet for personal business.
Booz Allen Hamilton: Making Cloud Computing a Reality
Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, assists clients in deploying efficient and secure private cloud and dynamic infrastructure solutions that span the operational tiers of the IT enterprise. Our methodology analyzes and addresses the people, processes, and technology that are affected by an enterprise private cloud deployment. Our solution has resulted in certification and accreditation (C&A) efficiencies of 30 percent in DoD IA C&A Process (DIACAP) supported processes, reduced maintenance down- time by 75 percent, and decreased the infrastructure footprint by 83 percent, while enabling organizations to stand-up new computer stacks in minutes as opposed to hours.
APC by Schneider Electric: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
This paper will show that all of the above can and should be corrected, because substantial financial savings are possible for typical users. The greatest advantage can be gained in the design of new facilities, but some savings are possible for existing and evolving facilities as well. Simple no-cost decisions made in the design of a new data center can result in savings of 20- 50% of the electrical bill, and with systematic effort up to 90% of the electrical bill can be avoided.
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Solace’s Messaging Middleware Solution
Information technology has become an increasingly important part of the business landscape, with companies running many applications to meet the diverse needs of their employees, customers and partners. By streamlining processes, accelerating transactions and giving people more complete and timely information, these applications improve productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction. That's only if those applications can share information in real-time, though, so companies deploy message-oriented middleware to tie them all together. The nature of inter-system interactions varies greatly, so they've had to cobble together a combination of middleware solutions from different vendors. Each one must be separately deployed, managed, capacity planned, upgraded and in some cases "bridged" together, which makes their IT infrastructure complicated and expensive. Solace transforms the economics and performance of IT infrastructure by performing all kinds of middleware functions in purpose-built appliances that feature best-of-breed performance in all areas, a common API, and unified administration.
The Power of Collaboration Within UC: Business Case Considerations for Considerations for Improving Enterprise Performance
Historian of communications technologies will likely refer to the era from 1997 to 2007 as the Decade of Infrastructure Readiness. Beginning with a select group of global enterprises who sought to decrease operating costs by merging their telephony and data infrastructures, the migration into the 21st century has seen companies of all sizes and types embracing IP-based networks for their inherent cost effectiveness, flexibility, and ability to support business-driven applications.
Solution Center Testing Services
Software applications change accordingly to market needs. "Tie to market" as well as application quality and functionality are crucial. Business interruption is not an option and it is precisely at this point where tests become relevant, not only to guarantee quality but also to ensure a lower quality cost.
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