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	Adaptivity helps IT Organizations solve execution gaps and maximize IT’s impact on shareholder value. We have institutionalized our award winning and proven track record as end user practitioners into three core execution areas of IT Strategy, IT Architecture and IT Operating Models. We differentiate through our ability to help firms rapidly and incrementally succeed in driving business aligned service level improvements while radically lowering costs. Adaptivity’s ADIOSSM Methodology, Fit-for-PurposeSM Design Framework and Quality of ExperienceSM Maturity Model serve as change catalyst mechanisms to help firms drive dramatic infrastructure cost reductions, increase growth efficiencies and improve service levels multiple-fold.
	OpTier® harnesses the power of real business transactions with its Business Transaction Management™ (BTM) software solutions. Based on unique Active Context Tracking™ (ACT) technology, our CoreFirst® product assures that business transactions flow smoothly within IT applications and infrastructure, without bottlenecks or outages, for improved end-user experience. CoreFirst delivers end-to-end visibility – of all business transactions, across all tiers, all the time – by discovering the links between IT components and business services, continuously and automatically. It also prioritizes IT transactions and management processes based on business needs and optimizes IT to reduce costs while meeting service level objectives. Case Study: The unique integration of CoreFirst® from OpTier® with DataSynapse GridServer adds a business transaction management layer that assures performance and reliability of GridServer-enabled applications. By adding real-time visibility of transactions vs. IT resources, CoreFirst maximizes the GridServer value for businesses and applications. CoreFirst monitors activity-based resource consumption and service levels, inside the grid environment, as well as in the application tiers around it. The solution benefits application teams, grid environment owners and business unit managers by providing a pragmatic and direct way to manage grid-based business services using transaction tracking and monitoring. GridServer provides businesses with dynamic scaling capabilities and ondemand computing power. It increases effectiveness and reduces cost. However, the grid can also presents a challenging environment for application teams fighting to isolate service-level breaches or deal with user complaints. Intermittent or inconsistent application behavior makes this job almost impossible. The root of their problems is a lack of business context to link the impacted service with the activity on the grid. The grid deconstructs jobs and distributes tasks for its engines to process. The jobs are devoid of any business context, that, in most cases, are not even known to the grid (such as the username of a specific business transaction, event or transaction type). Thus IT personnel does not have the critical insight into which specific business transaction was executed on what grid engines at a particular time, and therefore cannot identify which transaction caused a slowdown. Working in the dark to analyze problems can take hours, even days. CoreFirst tracks and monitors all business transactions dynamically, builds a record for each one and graphically displays how the grid processes it. By quickly identifying if a problem is related to execution on the grid or not, CoreFirst customers report dramatic time savings (of 75-90%) to isolate performance issues or bottlenecks. CoreFirst is the only solution that delivers end-to-end visibility – of all business transactions, across all tiers, all the time – allowing IT to react to any situation, as it develops.
	Misys Treasury & Capital Markets creates integrated, comprehensive solutions for financial institutions and corporate treasury departments across the globe, enabling them to manage their capital market activities across multiple asset classes. Working with the world's leading financial institutions for over a quarter of a century we have built in-depth industry knowledge globally and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by every single customer. This experience enables Misys to develop the right solutions for customers' businesses and maintain them through world-class services and support. Misys Summit FT is a our flagship multi-asset class solution for handling complex OTC derivatives and structured products from deal entry through to settlement. Through our partnership with DataSynapse, we provide an off-the-shelf joint grid enabled solution that speeds up compute intensive portfolio analytics, providing faster results for improved risk management and the agility to react quickly to market changes. See how we can help you achieve results in minutes rather than hours. Misys: experience, solutions, results www.misys.com
	Lab49 is a technology consulting firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry. Our clients include many of the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds and exchanges. Lab49 designs and delivers some of the most sophisticated and forward-thinking financial applications in the industry today, and has an impeccable delivery record on mission critical systems.

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