Put Down the Screwdriver
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Have you ever tried to use a screwdriver as a hammer? It kind of works sometimes, doesn’t it? But if you’ve got a serious job to do, you just can’t beat a hammer for banging in a nail. It’s the…
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
451 Group Analysis: INETCO ready to expand beyond payment processing
Earlier this week, the 451 Group released an analyst report on INETCO. Written by analyst Dennis Callaghan, the two page market development report explains how INETCO is expanding into broader business transaction management (BTM) and new market verticals through: Support…
AMQP Working Group Transitions to OASIS Member Section
With the completion of the AMQP 1.0 specification, the AMQP Working Group has submitted the business messaging protocol to the international open standards body, OASIS. What does this mean? OASIS AMQP will engage in further development of the protocol, seek…
Monitoring the M&A Mash-up
With the US and European markets and economies tilting, mergers and acquisitions within the financial industry are likely to continue through 2011 and into 2012 – smaller players, or even some of the larger ones who are in distress, may…
AMQP Working Group Transitions to OASIS Member Section
International Open Standards Consortium Expands to Include Initiative for Business Messaging Interoperability within Middleware, Mobile, and Cloud-based Environments August 18th, 2011 – The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group has become the newest Member Section within the OASIS international…
AMQP Webcast Now Available (Recorded July 27th)
On July 27th, AMQP Working Group representatives from the Bank of America, VMware, the 451 Group, Red Hat and INETCO held a briefing to discuss the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), and recent developments around the open standard for business…
Why is it important to monitor AMQP traffic?
When a new standard with the potential and breadth of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) arrives, it can be a very exciting time for businesses and application developers. Suddenly it is possible to do things that were previously difficult, if…
What You Don’t Know About Your ATMs (and better monitoring will tell you)
ATM monitoring solutions are a good thing. But are they enough to avert customer outages and incidents that impact key business performance within your ATM network infrastructure? In today’s ATM network architectures, simple centralized systems no longer exist. The complexity…
Transaction Monitoring Costs and the Durbin Amendment
Are your transaction monitoring costs more than $0.007 per transaction?
If so, we need to talk. Buried deep in the Durbin Amendment Final Rule, is an interesting number – the median cost of transaction monitoring is $0.007 per transaction. Even more interesting was the spread from the median cost ($0.007) to the 80th percentile cost ($0.012)*. That means some issuers are paying up to 70% more for transaction monitoring than the Fed thinks is “normal”.
What do you do when your category vanishes?
One of the more suicidal moves you can commit as a marketer is to declare your category dead. But what happens if it just vanishes? Last week, Gartner released their 2011 Hype Cycle for IT Operations. After five years of…