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Hello, It's always great to kick-off with some good news - so it's with real pleasure that I can announce that Sumerian has just been named as one of analyst firm Gartner's "Cool Vendors" for 2011. This is a truly exciting development for us and clearly demonstrates just how well the industry is viewing our services. You can read the full press release and access a complimentary copy of the report here. In other news, 2011 is already shaping up to be one of our busiest years yet, both in terms of meeting new clients and the sheer spectrum of challenges we are being invited to work on. We cover a number of these areas in the downloads and further reading section of our site - from using analytics to help overcome application complexity, latency reduction and trading optimisation, informing and rightsizing cloud initiatives, to effectively managing virtualised environments. As always, it's great to hear your views and feedback on our services or anything you've read here. And please let us know if there are any topics you would like us to cover in our next edition. Calum Smeaton, Sumerian CEO
Leading capital markets experts TABB Group recently interviewed Sumerian's Joanne Kinsella on the benefits that advanced analytics can offer to managing today's complex trading environments.
Sumerian will be participating at the following events over the next few months:
FST Summit EU Wiesbaden, Germany 17-19 May 2011
SIFMA FST Expo New York, USA 14-16 June 2011
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Further reading and quicklinks: Sumerian launches in the US TABB Group Research – Holistic Latency Sumerian Case Study – Capacity and Latency reduction in FX Trade capacity management Latency - A Sting in the tail Operating with surgical precision Optimizing E-commerce
As a valued contact and industry colleague, I’d like to personally introduce you to Sumerian and let you know about its recent expansion to the US. Sumerian’s unique analytics services are giving global investment banks and financial sector companies the insight to make better, faster decisions and align IT accurately to drive business performance. The expansion, and my recent appointment heading up Sumerian’s US operations, comes at a time when the company is seeing some fantastic client results and industry recognition. Topping that list is Sumerian being named an AFTA finalist for a client implementation in the category of "Best Infrastructure Initiative”. You may have also seen some industry buzz for Sumerian on Waters, A-Team and TABB Group forums. Our work around understanding the true, holistic latency resident in trading systems has been particularly welcomed by the industry and is a testament to the innovative analytics being carried out in this space. If you’re new to Sumerian, please take a look at our website for a quick overview of our services and to meet the team. You can also follow us on Twitter and Linked-In too. In fact, we’re offering an iPod nano to one lucky Twitter follower – simply follow us on Twitter for your chance to win (terms and conditions on our website). In the meantime, I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving holiday, and hope to speak to you soon. Jo Kinsella Managing Director, Americas
Also in this edition
Sumerian launches in the US Sumerian announces expansion of its global operations into North America with the establishment of offices in New York. TABB Group Research – Holistic Latency Sumerian announces the availability of "Holistic Latency Monitoring: Finding the Chain's Weakest Link," a Vision Note written and produced by TABB Group.
Sumerian Case Study – Capacity and Latency reduction in FX Sumerian helps US investment bank to optimize capacity and latency for critical FX service targeting new market opportunity. Trade capacity management TABB Group interview Sumerian's CTO Peter Duffy on what firms should keep in mind. Latency- A Sting in the tail Sumerian CTO Peter Duffy questions whether the numbers we see in these headlines are at all useful. Operating with surgical precision Sumerian CEO Calum Smeaton examines why a precision, analytical approach can help you to find and achieve real, ongoing IT cost savings. Optimizing E-commerce Sumerian Partner and Analyst Mike Allan explains some of the analysis Sumerian is doing in the area of E-commerce optimization and how it’s helping our clients.