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

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By Ronan Bradley on December 17, 2008 7:20 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
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..
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If the Investment banking world is getting simpler, what impact on IT?

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By Ronan Bradley on December 7, 2008 6:07 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
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..
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SOA: Time to wake up and smell the data

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By Ronan Bradley on December 4, 2008 5:31 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
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..
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Will the credit crunch also crunch OSS in 2009?

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By Ronan Bradley on December 1, 2008 9:59 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
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..
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Selling enterprise software in a downturn: Like any other time only more so...

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By Ronan Bradley on November 25, 2008 5:52 PM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
Over the years, I have listened to a lot of hokum about enterprise software sales from all sorts of people but in particular from venture capitalists and dodgy sales guys looking for a job. It often revolves around the belief... Read More..
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IT and Compliance: Planning for an unknown future

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By Ronan Bradley on November 18, 2008 8:04 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Everybody accepts that we are entering a new era in financial services regulation but we are still far from knowing what precisely it will look like. The reality is that we don’t even know the shape of the banking industry... Read More..
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Barclays and the case of the excel spreadsheet

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By Ronan Bradley on October 17, 2008 11:24 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
I blogged only a little while ago on the danger of excel in data integration and now a for-instance pops up in finextra: Barclays claims to have discovered that 179 contracts were accidently included in the Lehman Brothers purchase due... Read More..
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Will the finance industry meltdown harm OSS?

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By Ronan Bradley on October 9, 2008 6:25 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I said only earlier in the week that we really can’t say much about future banking IT trends until we have some idea what the industry will look like. However, I thought I would respond to some upbeat comments on... Read More..
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What will IT focus on in the post-credit crunch banking age?

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By Ronan Bradley on October 7, 2008 7:17 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
We are clearly still in the maelstrom of the credit crunch and do not yet know what the banking sector will look like when things settle down - even in a little. Of course, this makes it hard to determine... Read More..
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Google and the floating data center (yes - its on water)

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By Ronan Bradley on September 30, 2008 7:47 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I had to read this report by Rob Daly twice, check the posting date wasn’t 1st April and then go check other sources. Apparently, Google is attempting to patent the concept of a datacenter-on-a-boat! The US patent application also includes... Read More..
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