A fintech start-up or any start-up for that matter, and the banks do not make very happy bed fellows. There are some fundamental differences between the two sectors:

• Start-ups are by their nature, innovative and about taking risks. Banks are

Is there a good starting point?

In this article CEO John Power takes a good look at how Cloud Technology is impacting enterprises now and into the future. 

You will see from the graphic below from this McKinsey report in

Reacting to business drivers in an agile manner

Ostia have developed processes and tools to discover and automate the documentation of an organisation’s core transactional systems.

This facilitates informed IT decision making in response to today’s key business drivers and

The Situation

The Spanish Government passed legislation, called law of electronic access by citizens to public services (LAECSP). That the citizen is “just a click away".

The Diputación of a major Spanish city found itself under the twin pressures of

The Situation

Purchases from a well established *German media company's extensive and historic film catalogue could only be made over the phone.

The company recognised that it was losing a significant opportunity as their catalogue was not available online, however

Over the coming weeks we are looking at some of the situations organisations across varied sectors of the marketplace have had to deal with, the solutions that were implemented, and the results that transpired.

The Situation

Spanish Central Government passed

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It is vital to know all the data you have gathered over the decades and then steps can be taken to maximise its security. With the Central Bank focusing on companies cyber security policies and

Service Virtualisation is a proven technology that provides significant benefits for organisations that adopt, implement and use it. This adoption is fast becoming main stream and is approaching critical mass.

The main suppliers of Service Virtualisation are CA Technologies (CA

How Testing can be…quite Testing

Testing, and test data availability, is becoming ever more challenging. We have burgeoning and progressively more stringent data governance regulation from both the EU and US. Allied to this, organisations are increasingly turning to outsourcing

Proprietary Payloads in Years Gone By

Since the advent of the Client-Server revolution, data has been transferred between software systems in different formats. With the advent of XML and JSON , there is now a standard way to transport payloads

Service Virtualisation and Reducing Risk

Organisations can benefit in many ways through the use of service virtualisation to reduce risk and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the development and testing process. This is achieved by an ability to stand

Organisations can benefit in many ways through the use of service virtualisation to reduce risk and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the development and testing process. This is achieved by an ability to stand up multiple testing environments in

Keeping Up with User Needs

Service Virtualisation brings many benefits to IT organisations under pressure to deliver more functionality to their users.

Today’s users want more, they want it faster, and they want it on more devices than ever before.

The ability to access the data all organisations have is key to moving forward in the digital world.

Rapid Data Retrieval helps organisations to achieve that, however, it also introduces massive challenges to the IT infrastructure in these organisations.

We

Citi Mobile Challenge - Integrating Mobile with Legacy

For years, customers of banks have struggled to get a single view of their own data across multiple banks or even within banks. With the new mobile world, it has become more

Contrary to what the marketers will tell you, the Cloud isn’t the solution to all of the IT problems of the world; in fact it has just added to the myriad of options and concerns for any organisation that uses

The Hybrid Cloud is fast emerging as a new trend in the IT industry, however, there are differences of opinion as to what actually constitutes a ‘Hybrid Cloud’. The simplest definition of it is a mixture of Private Cloud

There is an ever increasing number of ways to process and analyse data in the Cloud or on premise, however, the key to these tools is getting access to the data to be processed quickly and in an organised fashion

Can your business react to changes as quickly as the online ecosystem has developed?

Do your traditionally built core IT systems, that have developed over the years, meet current requirements for fast cost effective and secure delivery for your business

We Crunched the Numbers to Find Out

With the break in the six nations competition we thought it would be worth a look at some of the Green machine and how the team has developed over recent years.

At the