VENDOR Information
AmeriVault
AmeriVault delivers proven online backup, replication and e-mail archiving services in managed solutions so you can avoid the cost and hassle of meeting recovery objectives and compliance mandates yourself. Since 1998, our clients have deployed our disk-to-disk technologies to solve challenges such as tape failures, restore delays, disaster exposure, SEC 17a-4 fulfillment and general lack of resources. Backed by Type II SAS 70 Certification, AmeriVault replicates data to redundant data centers and employees constant systems monitoring to assure service availability. Visit us online for a free Fast Quote or attend a web seminar.
Contact: Rubin Mendelson, Regional Vice President, AmeriVault Corp., 130 Turner Street, Building 3, Suite 220 Waltham, MA 02453 . . . 800.774.0235 . . . databackup@amerivault.com . . . www.amerivault.com
BPS
BPS software solutions unite governance, risk and compliance (GRC) operations across the enterprise into a single streamlined solution. The software helps harmonize the planning and execution of compliance-related activities providing greater accountability, improved operational performance and increased clarity thus reducing operational costs of risk management best practices. The groundbreaking BPS Platform™ drives continuous improvement for global risk management by combining powerful planning, collaboration and workflow concepts with innovative organizational modeling technology. Departing from the traditional silo approach to compliance, BPS Platform makes truly lean process execution possible at last. With offices in New York and Toronto, BPS is equipped to provide a full range of services, from needs assessment to implementation, product optimization, training, and support, to clients around the globe. The BPS professional services provide enterprises with end-to-end implementations tailored to meet individual needs. And because the BPS Platform is flexible and configurable, implementations are quick and efficient.
CA
The abundance services from banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies and new market participants leads to the conclusion that "Customer Experience" is the most important factor in determining the ability to make money; the “experience" will become more and more electronic. The dimensions of customer experience include: security, efficiency, performance, value for cost, anytime any place service, trust in my partner to be compliant and manage risk, a constant stream of new and innovative solutions and a single point of contact that provides a 360 degree view of the relationship and advice. The vision of CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) is to help manage, govern and secure the customers experience. For more information contact Mark Bubar, Vice President, Sales/Financial Services, at mark.bubar@ca.com or visit www.ca.com.
Capgemini Group Company
On February 8, 2007, Kanbay (www.kanbay.com) was acquired by Capgemini (Euronext: FR0000125338). The combined company, which ranks among the top five IT consultancies worldwide, offers services spanning North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. With 7,600 associates in the US, UK, India and APAC, Kanbay increases Capgemini’s global network of professionals serving the Financial Services industry to more than 15,000. Business solutions include: IT Strategy; Business Analysis; Technology Consulting; Quality Assurance And Testing; Production Support; Legacy Support And Modernization; and Business Process Outsourcing.
Contact: Ed Johnson, Marketing Manager, Kanbay, a Capgemini Group Company, 1503 Generals Way, Westchester, PA 19380 . . . 610.430.1801 . . . ejohnson@kanbay.com . . . www.kanbay.com
Chorus Call
The Diamond of Teleconferencing, Chorus Call is a world-class international conferencing provider. We specialize in affordable, high-touch audio, video, and web conferencing as well as event management services, for the financial industry. SIFMA members can now leverage a long-standing partnership with Chorus Call and receive discounted service rates without having to sign a contract or pay for conference cancellations or un-used reservation lines. SIFMA’s Select Teleconferencing Services include dedicated and fully-managed virtual conference rooms, wide-band high quality digital audio, local and toll free dial-in, host dial-out, web-based view of Q&A participants, voting and polling, digital recording-playback-transcription services, custom greeting, *0 conferencing specialist support, world-class support and much more. You may contact your dedicated SIFMA account executive today by calling 412.858.1363 or by emailing us at SIFMAteam@choruscall.com. Congratulations once again to SIFMA!
Contact: John Kostak, Director of Business Development, Chorus Call, Inc., 2420 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA 15146 . . . 412.858.1301 . . . jkostak@choruscall.com . . . www.choruscall.com
Clear Cube
Clear Cube is the industry's leading provider of true PC virtualization and centralized computing solutions that integrate blades, access devices and client management software to give organizations full control over end-user computing. As the pioneer of the PC blade market, ClearCube's blades house the latest PC components including Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo, Xeon ® and Pentium ® 4 processors. Organizations deploying ClearCube gain 99.9 percent uptime, hardened security and extra workspace while reducing support costs by more than 40 percent.
Contact: Joy Randels, Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, ClearCube Technology, 8834 Capital of Texas Highway North, Austin, TX 78759 . . . 512.652.3270 . . . joy.randels@clearcube.com . . . www.clearcube.com
Coffee Distributing Corp.
Coffee Distributing Corp. is the New York metropolitan area’s largest provider of office refreshment solutions. The company carries the widest array of single cup beverage systems in the industry including those by Flavia®, Keurig® and Lavazza®. Coffee is only part of the story at CDC; they also do a huge business in 5 gallon bottled water as well as bottled and canned beverages. Delivery when the customer needs it, not when it suits some arbitrary schedule is one important key to their success.
To find out why more financial firms, banks law firms and corporations look to CDC for their beverage supplies call 800.356.8881 or check their website www.cdccoffee.com
The Davidsohn Group
Situated in the heart of Wall Street lives a company that has been on the cutting edge of the financial technology industry for the past 40 years. Specializing in custom designed, state-of-the-art front-office and back-office systems, The Davidsohn Group has developed one of the largest libraries of financial software in the world. We offer fully integrated software in multi-currency/multi-firm systems with real-time and global capabilities. A unique modular approach to software implementation allows our systems to adapt to changing client needs in a cost-effective manner. A dedicated staff of managers and technicians, experienced in all aspects of the financial industry, stand ready to serve your needs.
Contact: Joseph Davidsohn, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, The Davidsohn Group, 55 Broad Street, 26 th Floor, New York, NY 10004 . . . 212.208.0100 . . . jdavidsohn@dgny.com . . www.davidsohngroup.com
Dow Jones
Dow Jones Financial Services Solutions serves the diverse information needs of financial professionals and enterprises by organizing our news and information into user-focused solutions. This ensures that financial firms are getting the information that’s critical to their organizations, from providing advice, trading, managing portfolios, to managing client-facing digital channels. We invite you to visit us at Booth 1500 and see how Dow Jones can help advance the goals of your business, whether they’re deepening customer relationships, creating market opportunities or enhancing your clients’ reliance on you and trust in your services.
Contact: Steve Reiser, Executive Director, Dow Jones Financial Services Solutions Marketing, Harborside Financial Center, 800 Plaza Two - 8th Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07311 . . . 201.938.5951 . . . steve.reiser@dowjones.com . . . www.djnewswires.com
eSpeed
eSpeed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPD) is a leader in developing and deploying electronic marketplaces and related trading technology that offers traders access to the most liquid, efficient and neutral financial markets in the world. eSpeed operates multiple buyer, multiple seller real-time electronic marketplaces for the global capital markets, including the world's largest government bond markets and other fixed income marketplaces. eSpeed's suite of marketplace tools provides end-to-end transaction solutions for the purchase and sale of financial and non-financial products over eSpeed's global private network or via the Internet. eSpeed's neutral platform, reliable network, straight-though processing and superior products make it the trusted source for electronic trading at the world's largest fixed income and foreign exchange trading firms and major exchanges. To learn more, please visit www.espeed.com.
Contact: World Headquarters, eSpeed, Inc., 110 East 59 th Street, New York, NY 10022 . . . 212.610.2200 . . . www.espeed.com
IBM
IBM is one of the world's leading information technology companies with approximately 329,000 employees and 2006 revenues of $91.4B. IBM is also the world’s largest consulting and services organization and has over 180,000 services professionals in dozens of countries – some 54,000 of these professionals are dedicated to serving the financial services sector. For nearly a century IBM has been building industry skills and experience and making research and development investments specifically for the financial services sector working with the world’s leading financial services institutions. Drawing on deep resources from across IBM and key
Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of technologies, software, and services that can help you capitalize on innovation and take full advantage of the new era of on demand business. For more information please visit IBM at booth # 4114 - Level 3 or ibm.com/financialmarkets .
Contact: Jim Brill, Global Marketing Manager - IBM Financial , 294 Route 100 - Building 2, Somers, NY 10589 . . . 914.766.2972 . . . marketsjbrill@us.ibm.com . . . ibm.com/financialmarkets
Intel
Intel Corporation, a world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series redefines high-volume server architecture, and delivers the features that IT managers want: energy-efficiency, lower total cost of ownership, reliability, performance, and headroom for growth. Intel is working with the Financial Services industry to promote Low Latency solutions.
Contact: Intel Corporation, 2200 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119 . . . financialservices@intel.com . . . www.intel.com/quadcoreserver
Kx Systems
Kx Systems offers a unified approach to streaming, realtime and historical data with its kdb+ platform. Kdb+ combines a streaming event processor, a 64-bit in-memory and on-disk database, and an expressive development and analytics environment. Providing an end-to-end architecture for streaming, realtime and historical data enables kdb+ to deliver ultimate performance for high-volume, data-intensive analytics and applications.
www.kx.com.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. is delivering on our vision to improve trade efficiency and effectiveness for Capital Markets firms by: focusing on tools, applications and infrastructure for building next-generation trading applications and analytics; focusing on the entire securities industry ecosystem, from front to back office, from market data to market connectivity; helping investors achieve best execution, best pricing and compliance; and providing infrastructure support for non-traditional players’ market entry. A powerful blend of solutions from Microsoft partners, combined with the advantages of Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, Microsoft Excel Services, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the Microsoft .NET Framework and SOA, can help your firm realize a rapid ROI. Solutions are designed to help accelerate time to market, minimize risk, reduce costs and complexity, and improve customer relationship management. Our focus is on increasing automation across the entire value chain: operational, risk management, wealth management and the trade execution landscape.
Contact: Diane Wukitsch, Industry Marketing Manager, Capital Markets, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104 . . . 646-225-4825 . . . dianewuk@microsoft.com . . . www.microsoft.com/capitalmarkets
Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world’s most critical information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today’s barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.
Contact: Sarah Harwood, Enterprise Marketing Communications, Nortel, 4010 E. Chapel Hill-Nelson Highway, Mailstop D17/04/0F2, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 . . . 919.997.7081 . . . sharwood@nortel.com . . . www.nortel.com
Office Shadow
Shadow-Planner is an award-winning software suite which is revolutionizing the way that companies control and manage risk. By providing innovative tools, Shadow-Planner streamlines BC / DR plan development and maintenance to make it quicker, more efficient and cost effective. The solution is exploited extensively across Europe but has not been previously available to US companies. This is now changed with Office Shadow’s first US office in NYC. The comprehensive suite of modules addresses the full scope of Business Continuity Management and includes: Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Risk Management, Incident Management and Compliance Scorecard. Shadow-Planner is browser-based and can be implemented either as a managed or self-hosted solution.
Contact: Roland Johnson, Vice President, Office Shadow, 48 Wall Street, Suite 1100, New York, NY 10005 . . . 646.442.0480 . . . roland.johnson@office-shadow.com or Paul Grigg, Senior Account Executive, Office Shadow . . . 646.442.0480 . . . paul.grigg@office-shadow.com . . .
www.office-shadow.com
PAETEC Communications Inc.
PAETEC Communications Inc. is an Integrated Communications Provider offering financial services organizations solutions for trader voice, data needs, carrier services, conferencing services, enterprise inventory and infrastructure management, cost management and network security. PAETEC Communications Financial Services (PCFS) offers: Private line ring down services ARD/MRD TDM and IP; Trader Voice: TRADETEC (IP & TDM Plus Hybrids) MPLS IP Ringdowns with built in disaster recovery via three legged circuits to multiple locations; Automatic Ringdown; Manual Ringdown; Hoot ‘n Holler; Mitel IP Turret; Local & Long Distance; Toll & International; MPLS Securetec; E-mail scanning. PAETEC Communications, Inc. is already providing these services to financial firms and is an affinity program partner with the SIFMA offering attractive rates as a membership benefit. Benefits to members include: Cost Reduction; Risk Abatement and Diversity in the network; IP Technology and Gateways Plus Hybrid Solutions; Business Continuity and Scripted Disaster Recovery.
www.paetec.com
PriceMetrix
PriceMetrix is exclusively focused on assisting investment firms increase their productivity and revenue by helping individual FCs to become better CEOs of their business. The patented PriceMetrix Program is a combination of Reporting Dashboards, Tactical User Tools, and comprehensive Support and Training designed just for retail investment firms that enables advisors and management to proactively identify and close Client, Asset, Revenue, Product and Pricing opportunities. For over seven years, PriceMetrix customers have experienced improved assets per rep, revenue per rep and household quality and they have expanded their Fee-based business and enhanced their pricing.
Contact: Stephen Dakis, Director, Sales,
PriceMetrix Inc., 40 University Avenue, Suite 200 Toronto ON M5J 1T1 . . .
stephen.dakis@pricemetrix.com . . .
www.pricemetrix.com
QUODD Financial Information Services
QUODD Financial Information Services provides a "thin" web browser Market Data Desktop poised to revolutionize the integration, delivery and use of live data. The company's solution, QUODD Equity+, is built on an open-systems platform which allows an enterprise complete flexibility in content selection as well as customized delivery - with personalization down to the seat level. Furthermore, because QUODD's Platform seamlessly integrates all third party market data within a company's own internal systems/databases, and the entire solution is centrally-managed, it eliminates the need for company resources, thus significantly decreasing the data management costs across an enterprise. QUODD's product offerings are based on an open-ended architecture which is content-agnostic (supports an unlimited flow of content) - enabling the fully customizable, highly functional delivery of live data.
Contact: Dennis Morgan, Executive Vice President, Sales & Account Management, QUODD Financial Information Services, 30 Montgomery Street, Suite 600, Jersey City, NJ 07302 . . . 201.427.9052 . . . dennis.morgan@quodd.com . . . www.quodd.com
SIG
The Susquehanna International Group of companies (SIG) has evolved over the past twenty years into a leading financial institution focusing on trading and market-making, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, institutional sales and research. During this time, the privately held firm has succeeded in building a team of over 1,400 highly-motivated individuals from diverse backgrounds. Employees work in an agile and opportunistic environment, fully leveraging cutting-edge technology and access to expansive quantitative research. SIG’s technology department has experienced a 40% growth rate in the past two years and continues to search for candidates to join our elite team. For a listing of openings in our suburban Philadelphia headquarters, please visit our site
www.sig.com/careers.
Skyler Technology, Inc.
Skyler Technology, Inc. develops high performance trading solutions for faster and smarter trading. The Skyler C3 Solutions source liquidity, trigger smarter trading decisions, and achieve higher fill rates at better prices. The Skyler C3 order book, algorithmic, compliance, and routing solutions are focused on your specific customer needs and emphasize flexibility, ease of use, and simplicity of integration. They combine powerful, low-latency in-memory data processing technologies including stream processing, caching, and order book aggregation with market specific business logic modules. The combination of these capabilities results in a powerful offering that accelerates your trading infrastructure and opens new avenues for your innovative trading ideas. Use Skyler’s trading solutions to experience unprecedented speed and microsecond latency that result in immediate trading benefits. Learn more about Skyler at booth 3118 on the 2nd floor in Americas Hall 1.
Contact: Richard Chmiel, Vice President, Sales, Skyler Technology, 101 Ygnacio Valley Rouad, Suite 100, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 . . . 201.444.2084 . . . richardchmiel@skylertech.com . . .
www.skylertech.com
Success Metrics, Inc.
Success Metrics enables brokerage firms to radically improve their sales results by providing intelligent applications that combine the capabilities of a world-class business intelligence platform with best-practice application logic and sophisticated statistical modeling. Our customers have increased inflows over 10% and production more than 5% in just a few months. Our software-as-a-service applications enable individual advisors and branch managers to take specific actions to improve performance based on what is statistically proven to drive results for top performers with similar practices or branches. In addition, by providing unique insight into the greatest growth opportunities for each advisor and branch, we enable firms to focus their scarce management and support resources on those specific advisors and branches that will deliver the greatest growth for the firm. Success Metrics’ solution provides actionable insight to advisors, managers, executives and home office professionals that helps everyone optimize results by aligning resources with opportunity.
Contact: Paul Staelin, Vice President, Success Metrics, Inc., 1050 Winter Street, Suite 1000, Waltham, MA 02451 . . . 617.395.1323 . . . pstaelin@successmetricsinc.com . . . www.successmetricsinc.com
SUN
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at www.sun.com. Financial Institutions have historically looked to Sun to provide technology innovation and leadership. Sun is working with leading application partners to address the latency and performance issues across the end-to-end trade process. Reducing latency within and between market data and trading systems with Solaris 10 features like DTrace for observability and Containers for application consolidation.
TeleContinuity, Inc.
Telecommunications: Software/ Support / Consulting Founded in the wake of September 11, 2001, TeleContinuity, Inc. is focused on providing “survivable” backup telecommunications to government agencies and business customers worldwide. Positioned as “life insurance for your telecommunications system,” TeleContinuity restores incoming telephone service to users within minutes of any telecommunication outage; natural disaster, earthquake, PBX failure, fiber cut, fire, flood, building evacuation, terror attack or other catastrophic event. TeleContinuity’s unique patent-pending technology will deliver incoming telephone calls to all subscribers at their existing telephone extensions - over any device, at any location and over any network; - though no service disruption had occurred. TeleContinuity has synthesized the best design elements of PSTN, Internet, and dynamic call center technologies to create a seamless, ubiquitous, and fully resilient outsourced services solution. There is no equipment to buy. We do not touch the customer’s PBX. There's no premise equipment or integration, and a customer doesn't need to change their carrier relationship.
Contact: Michael Rosenberg, Executive Vice President, 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD 20850 . . . 240.453.6232 . . . mrosenberg@telecontinuity.com . . . Elissa Weisblatt, Director Internal Administration . . . 240-453-6232 . . . eweisblatt@telecontinuity.com . . . www.telecontinuity.com
Tervela
Tervela provides hardware acceleration for trading infrastructures. Built from a hybrid of networking and middleware technology, Tervela’s intelligent, hardware-centric data messaging platform is a simple yet powerful solution architected to deliver scalability, stability and speed to meet the demands of today’s high volume trading environments. By integrating and accelerating the entire messaging ecosystem, Tervela gives customers a 10X improvement in capacity and performance over legacy messaging systems. The platform brings an unprecedented level of stability to trading environments by eliminating multicast storms, dynamically adapting to message traffic changes brought on by market volatility, and ensuring predictable performance periods - even in peak volume. Founded in 2004, Tervela is funded by Goldman Sachs, Sigma Partners and Acartha Group. Please visit us at www.tervela.com .
Contact: Pete Smith, Vice President, Sales, 174 Hudson Street, 2 nd Floor, New York, NY 10013 . . . 646.586.4205 . . . www.tervela.com
TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business. TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now ®, to over 3,000 customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries. TIBCO provides innovative software that enables interoperability between applications and information sources, coordinates processes that span systems and people, and helps companies sense and respond to events and opportunities more quickly and with more certainty and control. TIBCO provides a comprehensive set of standards-based software that helps organizations achieve the benefits of real-time business in a way that not only leverages all of their existing assets, but can actually increase their effectiveness and value. TIBCO’s software is designed to help organizations pursue and benefit from initiatives in three key areas: service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM) and business optimization.
Contact: John Stopper, Vice President, Sales, TIBCO Software Inc., Tower 45, 120 W. 45 th Street, 18 th Floor, New York, NY 10036 . . . 646.495.7901 . . . www.tibco.com
Visual Numerics, Inc.
Visual Numerics ® develops leading edge data analysis and visualization solutions for technical, business and scientific communities worldwide. Visual Numerics products include the gold-standard IMSL ® Numerical Libraries, written in C, C# for .NET, Java and Fortran, as well as the PV-WAVE ® Family of visualization tools. Popular algorithms for finance include optimization, regression, curve fitting, simulations, and forecasting. In addition, Visual Numerics' expert consulting combines technical expertise, decades of hands-on experience and a combination of powerful products to create the highest quality solutions possible for your visual data analysis needs. Visual Numerics partners with its customers to provide advanced analytic solutions and services that are unsurpassed in the industry.
Contact: Andy McClure, Director North American Sales, Visual Numerics, Inc., 2500 Wilcrest Drive, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77042 . . . 925.831.0503 . . . amclure@vni.com . . . www.vni.com
