Posted by: kurtsh | May 12, 2007

EVENT: Financial Services IndustryCasts & Microsoft’s OfficeWriter acquisition

As some of you may have seen, we made an acquisition announcement:

Acquisition of SoftArtisans Inc.’s OfficeWriter for managed report authoring in Microsoft Office
Pasted from http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-09BINewDayPR.mspx

How timely, we will be showcasing OfficeWriter during our next industryCast.

Applied business intelligence and reporting with Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, Microsoft Office and SoftArtisans OfficeWriter in the Financial Services Industry
In this webcast we will review how several companies in banking, insurance and capital markets are applying Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, Microsoft Office and SoftArtisans OfficeWriter to gain business insight and improve the design, creation and deployment of powerful reporting tools. By simply using common Microsoft Office knowledge, you’ll see how financial service companies throughout the world have been able to avoid expensive reporting solutions while exceeding their users’ business needs. Through a series of demos, you learn how to use Excel and Word as a design tool for Reporting Services and also see how to retrieve reports from SSRS to add full-fidelity Excel and Word to existing report definitions. As a stand-alone product or integrated with Reporting Services, OfficeWriter lets your users analyze data with powerful native Excel features like VBA, macros, pivot tables and drill-down capabilities. Finally, you’ll discover how to further boost your Reporting Services applications with run-time, programmatic control.

SOA Integration Frameworks in Financial Services
Financial Services companies have built up a large number of Line-Of-Business oriented systems and databases over the years.  This has led to the development of application and information silos where it is virtually impossible to bring all the information about a client together in one place.  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Integration Frameworks provide a way to bring these applications and databases together.

Scaling SOA in Financial Services with Grid Computing for .NET
Enterprise architects in financial services are looking to service-oriented architectures (SOA) to address many real-world problems – brittle systems with tight interdependencies, data stuck in single-purpose silos, and applications that don’t scale to meet growing demand, to name a few.  But implementing an SOA can also expose new scalability issues.  New high-performance computing (HPC) offerings from Microsoft and its partners are ideally suited for scaling out compute-intensive components of an SOA.  Using real-world examples from financial services companies, this presentation will describe how to grid-enable compute-intensive analytic services for use in an SOA. 

Windows ATMs – Secure, Well-Managed, and Ready for the Future
With a large swing in the ATM channel from 15-year-old technology to the Windows platform comes both opportunity and peril. Join us for a discussion about how banks and other ATM deplorers are making sure their Windows-based ATMs are both secure and taking advantage of the rich management functionality of the Windows platform.
We will finish by envisioning the next logical steps – how to break out of the traditional ATM channel, using the development potential of Windows-based, well-connected ATMs to offer more compelling customer contact.

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