Tag: compliance

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle announced that it is expanding its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with four new cloud solutions to help businesses fully utilize the benefits of digital supply chains. These solutions enable businesses to detect, analyze, and respond to IoT signals and incorporate these insights into existing and rapidly evolving market capabilities. Signals from IoT-enabled devices are growing exponentially and represent an opportunity for organizations that are able to manage, interpret, and leverage these vast sources of data. Organizations with the tools to integrate device data into business processes and applications can gain critical predictive insights ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Phil Simon. In my last post, I discussed how Amazon is able to have its cake and eat it too. The company has managed to resolve the conundrum facing many organizations around privacy, data access, speed and trust. Of course, few organizations can do what Jeff Bezos' company can. Today I'll cover some privacy and data-access considerations for the non-Amazons of the world. Without further ado, consider the following truisms. Remember that trust is an asset. I'll bet that your company's top brass knows its numbers inside and out. They can list stock price, revenues, ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Dylan Jones. The financial sector has always been subjected to regulatory compliance laws and directives. Consumers, lawmakers and politicians would expect no less. But it's fair to say that the financial sector has witnessed a "hockey stick" trend regarding new regulations in recent years. Last year I talked about how compliance is finally giving data quality the platform it deserves. In that post, I wrote: "Experienced data quality practitioners recognise that regulatory pressure not only gives them an executive mandate but the ability to create a platform and framework that will help satisfy ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Phil Simon. More than ever, speed kills. Don’t believe me? Consider the following: There’s an entire science devoted to the study of speed. Network effects mean that organizations – particularly startups – need to embrace first-mover advantage or wind up as also-rans. The rate of technology adoption has been increasing for years. In this two-part series, I'll look at how the need for speed affects organizations' privacy and compliance efforts. Today I'll frame the problem. An inherent tension I'll be the first to admit that there's an inherent tension among speed, compliance, privacy and trust ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Caroline Hermon. I’ve had several meetings lately on data management, and especially integration, where the ability to explore alternatives has been critical. And the findings from our internet of things (IoT) early adopters survey confirms that the ecosystem nature of data sources in IoT deployments means we need to expand the traditional toolbox for data integration. For many customers, facilitating better analytics with data integration means building ever larger data warehouses. But this takes time – and ‘time is money.’ If it takes too long to get the required insights, business users will ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Based in Mountain View, CA, vArmour, a data center and cloud security company, provides vArmour DSS Distributed Security System—software to help protect critical applications and workloads. The company was recently awarded patent number 9,521,115 from the USPTO for security technology for container microservices. Marc Woolward, CTO of vArmour, who is the inventor of the technology, described what’s changing in the world of clouds, containers, and microservices, and the issues that need to be addressed now.What does vArmour provide?We provide security for cloud environments. We have a distributed security system that is 100% ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Introduction As the demand for data analytics grows so does the need for a technology or platform to process large amounts of different types of data in timely manner. A platform that can be easily scaled up or down, based on increased or decreased demand, has become an imminent need for all those organizations that want to do data analytics on a large scale of varied data. Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service that can scale according to organizational demands in just a few ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications and PwC announced today a global collaboration to offer premium technology, implementation and consulting solutions to help financial institutions meet near-term and ongoing compliance with the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) new IFRS9 and FASB’s proposed CECL reporting standards. The collaboration will pair Oracle’s software and analytical solutions, which provide pre-built rules, methods and reports, with PwC’s compliance consulting and implementation expertise. Together, the two companies will provide financial services clients with full line of sight into all needs related to the new IFRS 9 accounting standard that banks must ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Michelle Homes. Editor's note: Charyn Faenza co-authored this blog. Learn more about Charyn. As the fun of the festive season ends, the buzz of the new year and the enchantment of SAS Global Forum 2017 begins. SAS Global Forum is a conference designed by SAS users, for SAS users, bringing together SAS professionals from all over the world to learn, collaborate and network in person. Sure, online communication is great, but it’s hard to beat the thrill of meeting fellow SAS users face-to-face for the first time. It feels like magic! To help you ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Feed. Author: itsing. In the past year, the big data pendulum for financial services has officially swung from passing fad or experiment to large deployments. That puts a somewhat different slant on big data trends when compared to 2016 trends.The question of big data hype versus reality has finally been put to rest for banks. This is further supported by the upward trending spend on big data solutions in financials. Bear in mind that the trends and themes discussed here apply to next-generation infrastructure solutions and quantitative approaches that have come to market over the past seven ... Read More