Technology & Finance
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Top Harvard Profs Keynote TiE conference in Boston
Clayton Christensen and Howard Stevenson will keynote the annual event of East Coast chapters of TiE Global, TiECON East, which takes place from June 15 - 17, 2006 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass. TiECon East 2006 is hosted by the Boston chapter of TiE, which belongs to TiE (Talent - Ideas - Enterprise) Global, the world’s largest non-profit professional organization that promotes innovation and technology leadership. TiE Boston Lands Christensen, Stevenson keynotes
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Poor Jeeves
AskJeeves becomes the far more pedestrian ask.com. But you don’t need to suffer...if you haven’t read one of P.G. Wodehouse’s short novels about the smart butler and his not so smart boss Bertie, pick up a copy before your next trip. The books are great, light fun and can probably be had for a quarter at a used book store.
Policy Admin + Reinsurance
AdminServer, Inc. today announced that they have established a strategic alliance with Rivers Wave Consulting Limited, the developer and provider of Rivers Wave I(3) (Insurance Information Integration), XML-based, secure frameworks for the global reinsurance industry. Adminser and Rivers Wave Link
Grid is Big and Big Grids are Bigger
So says Roger Lang at Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. Cornell HPC Center Celent agrees in a new study about gird in financial services, citing a bank and an insurance company. Celent anticipates that financial services firms will increase spending on grid computing projects from just over US$100 million to nearly US$500 million between 2006 and 2010. Grid Spending to Soar “The technology is fundamentally changing the ability of firms to model risks and perform other tasks that are computationally intensive, according to Chad Hersh, senior analyst.
Like Flies to Money
Risk management budgets are growing, says Celent, which means the vendor chase is on. SAP, SunGard and i-Flex are key contenders in one of those complex magic quadrant, size and color diagrams which always take me an hour to figure out. Don’t spend money until you buy their report, they warn, objectively, of course.
In a new report, Risk Management and Basel II: Comparing the Financial and Credit Risk Solution Vendors, Celent assesses offerings from seven vendors. See the announcement, and the diagram at Risk Management Vendors