Partners

BusinessEdge Solutions Inc is an industry-focused business and technology consulting firm offering strategy, process optimization and solution integration to clients in the financial services, communications, media and content and life sciences industries.

BusinessEdge brings extensive business, technology and domain knowledge across the buy-side and sell-side lifecycle.

BusinessEdge's proven approach and methodology has added value across the software data lifecycle on multiple reference data implementations, from business case/strategy, requirements and architecture to quality assurance. BusinessEdge is distinctive among consulting firms in that its multidisciplinary consultants have an average of 15 years of industry-specific experience and expertise.

This strong industry knowledge and technology know-how is at the core of the company's unwavering commitment to create vision for its clients -- and is the driver behind its delivery of high-impact business solutions. See www.businessedge.com for a more detailed view of the firm's expertise and a complete listing of all its capabilities and solutions.

CounterpartyLink, Ltd. provides global legal entity and counterparty data, collected and maintained with processes designed to be consistent with the stringent standards driven by today's risk management and regulatory compliance requirements. CounterpartyLink provides detailed information on legal entities, collected in data centres around the world, using primary sources and registration documents. All data is collected and verified using rigorous quality assurance procedures and continually updated for corporate actions and other events affecting the data.

Fujitsu Services is one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa. It has an annual turnover of £1.99 billion, (€2.86 billion) employs 15,200 people and operates in over 20 countries. It designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for customers in the financial services, telecom, retail, utilities and government markets. Its core strength is the delivery of IT infrastructure management and outsourcing across desktop, networking and data centre environments, together with a full range of related services, from infrastructure consulting through integration and deployment.

Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European-centered IT services arm of the Fujitsu Group. The Fujitsu Group is a US $44.5 billion (€34 billion) leader in the provision of IT systems and services for the global marketplace. For more information, please see: http://uk.fujitsu.com

FT Interactive Data provides global securities pricing, evaluations and reference data designed to support financial institutions’ and investment funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. FT Interactive Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than 3.5 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. FT Interactive Data specializes in ‘hard-to-value’ instruments and ‘hard-to-get’ information from emerging markets.

Evaluated pricing is provided in the U.S. through FT Interactive Data Corporation and internationally through Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.

For more information see:http://www.ftinteractivedata.com

Oracle's leadership, vision, and commitment to customers have made the company the world's largest enterprise software company, providing software and services to enterprises around the globe. Oracle’s leadership, vision, and commitment to customers have made the company the world’s largest enterprise software company. They provide software and services, that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems, to enterprises around the globe.

PolarLake helps companies to distribute data throughout their organization in less time, for less cost and less risk than it would take with traditional SOA / EAI / ETL solutions. PolarLake's industry specific solutions have been delivered with 80% less resources and 75% faster time to market than traditional horizontal solutions. Built on PolarLake's proven patented rule layering technology, PolarLake's industry solutions enable large firms to handle the complexity of operating in today’s interconnected data networks without spending large amounts on coded one off solutions. www.polarlake.com

Reuters DataScope part of Reuters (LSE: RTR, Nasdaq: RTRSY), the global information company, is a total solution for historical and reference data needs. It offers comprehensive and accurate equities, fixed income, money markets, and futures data with a choice of delivery options from web-based to an on-site relational database. The company provides both reference data and end-of-day pricing to financial services firms globally. Reuters DataScope has teamed up with some of the foremost data management software providers to enable clients to cleanse, manage and redistribute Reuters DataScope's quality, checked data throughout the enterprise. The Third Party Alliances program accounts for a substantial amount of Reuters DataScope's revenues and is an important, valued program. Contact: http://about.reuters.com/productinfo/datascope/

Standard & Poor’s is the world’s foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations. An essential part of the world’s financial infrastructure, Standard & Poor’s has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. GoldenSource can deliver Standard & Poor’s Cross Reference Services, which provides comprehensive reference data matching at both the security and entity level, and RatingsXpress. For more information, see: www.standardandpoors.com

Sunopsis empowers companies to improve business responsiveness by placing the right data at the right place, at the right time. The company’s next-generation data integration product allows organizations to efficiently manage and share data from disparate data sources without the complexity and cost of traditional data integration solutions. With more than 400 customers worldwide, and a global presence, Sunopsis has world headquarters in France, and regional headquarters in the United States and Singapore. Contact: www.sunopsis.com

Founded in 1995, TCG Software is a leading edge technology and IT consulting firm focused on delivering the best and most cost-effective solutions to their clients in areas such as financial services, e-business, mobile solutions, telecom and data networking. TCG Software also provides offshore software development and maintenance services ("offsourcing") for companies ranging from the Global 2000 to promising startups. The company has five offshore development facilities located in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad (in India) and Singapore. They are one of the youngest Indian companies to achieve the ISO 9001:2000 certification. In addition, they are one of the very few off-shore companies to have achieved the distinction of fulfilling and complying with the requirements of the SEI CMM Level 5.

Telekurs Financial is a company in the Telekurs Group, which operates in the field of financial information, payment transactions and IT services. Telekurs Financial specializes in the procurement, processing and distribution of international financial information for investment advisory services, portfolio management, financial analysis and securities administration. With connections to over 200 exchanges and 500 contributors worldwide, Telekurs Financial owns and manages one of the world’s largest securities databases. For more information: www.telekurs.co.uk or info@telekurs.co.uk

Founded in 2001, Volante Technologies, Inc. is based in New York. Volante Technologies offers an innovative product suite for data centric solutions in the financial services marketplace. Volante product suite includes a message meta data repository and tools for complex financial message mapping, transformation, validation and processing, to enable Straight Through Processing (STP) in Trade and Pre Trade and Post Trade environments. Volante’s customers include both large and mid-tier financial institutions for both the buy side and sell side communities, including Brown Brothers Harriman, ICI/ADP and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. Current partners include GoldenSource, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. For more information visit www.volantetech.com or send mail to info@volantetech.com.