The foremost issues facing enterprises today are waste, inaccuracies, and missed opportunities. These are all caused by information raging out of control, especially among banks and financial markets organizations. Data is in abundance. And yet, long-lasting, far reaching decisions are often made with less than accurate information combined with gut-level intuition. Without a strategic roadmap for agility and flexibility, many organizations in this industry are simply hoping they can make the right choices and avoid being left behind in these economic hard times.
Smarter banks and financial services companies are focusing on shifting away from the day-to-day agenda. After all, it's now possible to develop situational awareness and to predict business outcomes using existing information. Industry leaders can begin to focus on optimizing their businesses, and spend less time reacting to it. To help start the journey towards such an information-led transformation, IBM provides its clients with an Information Agenda. It's a proven approach to outlining a strategic view of business objectives and how information management investments can help to meet them.
For example, some of key information challenges experienced in this industry include:
- Pursuing implementations that offer aggressive ROI and process improvements
- Managing the convergence of market data, analytics, trades, orders, positions, risk analysis & compliance
- Improving competitiveness with lower latency, higher throughput , and analytics through stream computing
In this webcast, you will learn about these and other most common information challenges facing your industry today, and how IBM's Information Agenda can help your organization transform into a more competitive, smarter business for the future.
Keynote speaker:
-Lou Agosta, independent industry analyst, specializing in data warehousing, data mining and data quality.
