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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: And they don’t have mature markets and trading platforms. Skip Smith: And the data is kept in spreadsheets. There is no enterprise system that is housing this data. You have all these sources of manually created data, which we know has errors in it, and it gets aggregated into the central source. I
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: And your point is that with the cloud delivery model, the smaller fund managers are able to comply and keep up with these regulatory needs by using a service like yours to be able to do this at scale? Skip Smith: Exactly. It levels the playing field. To your point earlier about other
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: So the fund managers actually make the investment decisions and all the fundamental work, but the administrative work is handled by these global service providers, and you provide these service providers with their data management needs. SS: That is exactly right. There are large self-administrators – very large asset managers who choose to
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Would it be fair to say that your primary expertise is in providing cloud-based solutions in the domain of regulatory compliance in the fund management space? Skip Smith: No. I think we are really a data management solution provider. That is where our fundamental expertise is. We are merely migrating to the cloud,
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Skip Smith, COO of Confluence (Part 1)
Skip Smith is the chief operating officer of Confluence. Skip has more than 25 years of experience as a technology & operations executive, having studied at the University of Maryland, and he has worked for companies such as Fiserv, JPMorgan Chase and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In this interview he talks about Confluence’s value proposition in the financial
Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 8)
Sramana Mitra: And the banking and financial services focus that you’re developing, is this going to be a global focus, or is it just North America? Gopinathan Padmanabhan: It’s going to be global, absolutely global. In all regions, we are pushing for our presence in that particular space. We may not be the king of
Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What you’re describing is probably the case with all of your competitors, with the entire industry. They train internally for the core, and then they go outside for the more specialized stuff. Gopinathan Padmanabhan: That is correct. SM: We’ve covered quite a lot of ground. Is there any other area you want to
Outsourcing: Gopinathan Padmanabhan, Executive VP and Head of Global Delivery, MPhasiS (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What does it cost to maintain these residential boot camps? What is the cost structure of your training? Gopinathan Padmanabhan: I don’t have an exact number. I can tell you that we provide them like a campus. SM: It sounds like it’s a fairly expensive affair, right?
