http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/ Ronan Bradley's blog on infrastructure technology news and trends in the retail banking, captial markets and beyond. en Copyright 2011 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:58:27 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss There is a natural tendency to focus on the cool or exciting problems where technology can be applied. Sometimes this may result in the overlooking of more mundane areas where even greater benefit can be extracted. And these are the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2009/02/automating_account_reconciliat.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2009/02/automating_account_reconciliat.php Corporate Finance Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:58:27 -0500 rbradley I contributed to the recent ebizq discussion forum debate on "Is SOA dead?". The title should really have been: Was SOA killed by the recession? My view is that in many organizations, SOA as a banner project will indeed disappear... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2009/01/soa_like_all_good_architecture.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2009/01/soa_like_all_good_architecture.php Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:18:41 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/has_xbrls_time_finally_come_wi.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/has_xbrls_time_finally_come_wi.php Financial Services Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:20:13 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/if_the_investment_banking_worl.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/if_the_investment_banking_worl.php Financial Services Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:07:48 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/soa_time_to_wake_up_and_smell.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/soa_time_to_wake_up_and_smell.php Financial Services Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:31:42 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/will_the_credit_crunch_also_cr.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/12/will_the_credit_crunch_also_cr.php Financial Services Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:59:19 -0500 rbradley Over the last few years SOA has been getting all the limelight but there is another enterprise architecture which is likely to become more prominent: Enterprise Data Management. On sign of this growing importance is the growth of the EDM... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/11/enterprise_data_management_a_r.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/11/enterprise_data_management_a_r.php Enterprise Data Management Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:32:37 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/11/selling_enterprise_software_in.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/11/selling_enterprise_software_in.php Financial Services Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:52:09 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/11/it_and_compliance_planning_for.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/11/it_and_compliance_planning_for.php Financial Services Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:04:37 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/10/barclays_and_the_case_of_the_e.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/10/barclays_and_the_case_of_the_e.php Financial Services Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:24:53 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/10/will_the_finance_industry_melt.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/10/will_the_finance_industry_melt.php Financial Services Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:25:47 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/10/what_will_it_focus_on_in_the_p.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/10/what_will_it_focus_on_in_the_p.php Financial Services Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:17:58 -0500 rbradley 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... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/09/google_and_the_floating_data_c.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/09/google_and_the_floating_data_c.php Financial Services Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:47:33 -0500 rbradley Oracle launched the latest generation of their collaboration suite called beehive. While I know it takes a while for mergers to bear fruit, I was disappointed to see no mention of BEA’s Enterprise Social Computing concept and related products or... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/09/oracles_beehive_social_insects.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/09/oracles_beehive_social_insects.php Financial Services Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:43:10 -0500 rbradley While the radical reshaping of the US investment banking industry is still a work in progress, it is probably reasonable to say that political realities will ensure that the pay-back for government intervention will be more regulation. And this will... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/09/financial_it_can_it_cope_with.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soaroads/2008/09/financial_it_can_it_cope_with.php Financial Services Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:29:42 -0500 rbradley