By Michel Lempicki, Corporate Development Director, StatPro
DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to data governance.
By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services
Following a record year of revenue and profitability growth in 2011, Eagle Investment Systems expects to continue the trend in 2012, backed by significant investment in R&D and personnel as it expands particularly outside of its US base. 
A-Team Insight Events combine A-Team's expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners. In 2011, a quality constituency will once again gather for these focused events in London and New York City.
Asset Control has extended data provision for risk management with the integration of direct access to DTCC Solutions’ Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS) in its AC Plus data management platform.
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By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services
In my last post I briefly touched on the subject of unstructured data and schema-less repositories. In this instalment, I’d like to focus on this topic in a bit more detail, and look at the Variety aspect of Big Data from several angles.
Variety refers to various degrees of structure (or lack thereof) within the source data. And while much attention has been given to loosely-structured web data – whether sourced from the web itself (social media, etc.) or from web server logs – I’d like to turn to the topic of unstructured data within the firm’s firewall. I’d also like to focus on the challenge of linking diverse data with various levels of structure, rather than discussing the storage and analysis of unstructured data as a standalone problem.
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