IntroductionWith income growth moving positively yet remaining volatile across most financial markets sectors, the overlook for technology remains hesitant with institutions choosing IT projects that demonstrate considerable return on investment.
Institutions have realised that technology investment is vital for long-term sustainability and maintaining competitive par.Scope*The report analyzes the opinions of 100 senior IT/business professionals in the US, UK and Asia Pacific*It covers the Asset / Fund Management, Corporate / Commercial Banks, Investments and Securities Services, Trading / Brokerage and Hedge funds sectors*The report provides an insight into key IT spending trends and issues currently facing these sectorsHighlightsStrong income and earnings growth in the asset management sector ensures continually increasing budget trends, whilst commercial banks expect a slowdown in investment.Institutions are primarily focused on using technology to build around existing infrastructure to integrate within a common architecture in an effort to cut costs.Regulations such as SOX are pushing institutions to develop a framework to handle enterprise wide data management techniques.
Hedge funds and trading brokerage institutions feel that document management and business process automation specifically are the key to enforce operational risk.Reasons to Purchase*Understand rapidly changing trends in end-user opinion to determine your go to market strategy*Use robust primary data to plan 2007 strategy with confidence.