IBM, SunGard, and GoldenSource launch EDM Council IBM, SunGard and GoldenSource are the founding sponsors of this strategic initiative, which is expected to attract additional sponsors and members from the vendor and financial services communities. The goal of EDM is to standardise and integrate reference and transaction data that includes the five categories of data central to business processes and information needs in the financial services industry: securities, customers, counterparties, transactions and positions. The Council will promote EDM and related standards as a solution to help meet today's data management challenges while providing assistance on data management issues to its members. Council members are leading figures in the financial services community, bringing knowledge and expertise on the issues. One of the Council's first initiatives is a discussion forum on June 16th, 2005, from 8 – 11:30 a.m. at the Westin Hotel, in New York City. The seminar will be hosted by distinguished industry speakers: Dr. Michael Hammer, originator of re-engineering and the process enterprise; Sang Lee, Managing Partner of Aite Group, and Michael Meriton, president and ceo, GoldenSource Corporation. Panel members include: John Bottega, director and global head of product & price reference data at CSFB; Dan Nachtman, principal, Banc of America Securities; Dale Richards, president, enterprise data management, SunGard, Dessa Glaser, managing director business development strategic outsourcing, IBM and Paul Kennedy, vice president product management, GoldenSource. Following the seminar, the EDM Council members will hold its inaugural meeting. Future meetings will be held twice annually, and will be sponsored by Council Members. For more details on the Council please contact: SunGard - Marc Odho, SVP, Data Management Solutions at marc.odho@sungard.com IBM - Dessa Glaser, managing director Business Development Strategic Outsourcing at dglasser@us.ibm.com GoldenSource - Susan Frederick, VP marketing, at sfrederick@thegoldensource.com
•Date: 14th June 2005 • Region:US/World • Type:
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