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Victor Hugo – an early convert to the importance of the Cloud

The author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables Victor Hugo once remarked: “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come”. Hugo was born in 1802 and I think it is unlikely that he was thinking about Cloud based Asset Management Systems when he wrote this. Similarly, when Quartz was conceived, we were not doing this in the knowledge that a global… Read More »Victor Hugo – an early convert to the importance of the Cloud

From Report Writing to Business Intelligence

Reporting is a big part of any software. It is used internally within organisations, and more stylised reports are submitted to clients. As well as physical reports, there will also be requirements for data to be supplied to other systems by data transfer methods, e-mail etc. So, when we talk about reports we are essentially talking about “Output”. A good system will have an efficient means of capturing data, a… Read More »From Report Writing to Business Intelligence

Why the Cloud is important

I remember my first City job in the early eighties and people saying that one day the office will be a thing of the past and we will all work from home. It seemed a long way off. What computers there were then, involved the completion of cards that were passed to staff in a separate room who worked large ‘loom’ like contraptions which produced cards with holes. These were… Read More »Why the Cloud is important

Fund Management software for tomorrow, today!

Having written previously on both the “Good Practices” within the Investment Management industry and the “Technical Issues” facing it; this third article considers some of the key foundations necessary to build a system that will still be delivering business value 25 years from now. We are coming at this with distinct advantage over legacy vendors. We started with a blank canvass; supported by 40 years international Investment Management industry experience;… Read More »Fund Management software for tomorrow, today!

Futureproofing your Software

Following on from the last article where we identified that “Good Practices” in the Investment Management industry were being let down by poor legacy technology, this article is going to discuss how we should evaluate technology to deliver against the commercial needs of the industry; i.e. keeping fund administration costs under control through effective “FinTech”. In particular the question, ‘how can we ensure that the system we choose today will… Read More »Futureproofing your Software

Procedures and efficiency – Is the tail wagging the dog?

Principles such as the one commonly known as ‘Four Eyes’ have developed over many years. They are often the result of a change in regulation, enhanced compliance needs and issues that have enveloped the industry from time to time. However, these ‘Good Practices’ have been developed against a backdrop of bad technology infrastructure and dated legacy software. An example is a surprisingly accepted need to regularly reconcile disparate systems before… Read More »Procedures and efficiency – Is the tail wagging the dog?