December 2008 Archives

Has XBRL's time finally come with IBM's risk proposals?

By Ronan Bradley on December 17, 2008 7:20 AM 1

The XBRL standard is being proposed by IBM as the vehicle to deliver much greater transparency in risk management. In an unrelated development, also after many years as an optional reporting format for many financial regulators, it is to become... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, Market trends

If the Investment banking world is getting simpler, what impact on IT?

By Ronan Bradley on December 7, 2008 6:07 PM 0

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The investment banking world is getting simpler by virtue of there being fewer players and maybe getting simpler with less emphasis on the most complex and hard to understand derivatives. Credit Suisse not only announced a painful reduction of staff... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services

SOA: Time to wake up and smell the data

By Ronan Bradley on December 4, 2008 5:31 PM 0

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The line is taken from a report by Madan Sheina entitled "Realising the promise of SOA and BPM" (Madan is also speaking on a related ebizq webinar ). I am quoting it because it strongly arguing a point that I... Read More..

Categories: Enterprise Data Management, Financial Services, SOA concepts

Will the credit crunch also crunch OSS in 2009?

By Ronan Bradley on December 1, 2008 9:59 AM 0

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I have previously commented in my other blog about the emergence of OSS business models (and this is a topic well covered in the blog 451 CAOS Theory as well as ebizq's own OSS blog ). Specifically, OSS vendors have... Read More..

Categories: Financial Services, OSS

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