Whitepapers & Articles

  • Articles
    Aleri in Financial News Tech21  (102k)

    Aleri was included in Financial News’s fourth annual list of technology firms for the 21st century and was highlighted as “an innovative company to watch in 2010.”

  • Whitepapers
    Event-Driven Customer Marketing Across the Customer Lifecycle  (1253k)

    Online measurement has become increasingly focused on the integration of online behavior with customer marketing touch-points. One of the reasons for this growing concern with integration is the success and interest in “re-marketing” programs — messaging opportunities presented by visitors who enter but abandon site funnels.

  • Whitepapers
    Aleri Implementation Methodology  (1353k)

    This white paper discusses the Aleri Implementation Methodology (AIM), which offers analytic developers a set of best practices for implementing Continuous Intelligence using Complex Event Processing. AIM provides a structured yet flexible approach to rapidly build Continuous Intelligence projects and consistently deliver more analytic modules over time.

  • Whitepapers
    Energy Grid Management Whitepaper  (886k)

    This white paper will examine some of the key real-time data management and analysis problems with smart energy grids. It will also discuss how CEP-driven Continuous Intelligence streamlines the path to better energy management.

  • Whitepapers
    Live OLAP Whitepaper  (1027k)

    The unique real-time multidimensional analysis capabilities of Live OLAP allow organizations to answer complex questions based on what is happening now, with additional context from the past, so businesses can act immediately. This white paper describes the features of Live OLAP that enable this advanced capability.

  • Analyst Reports
    Forrester Report: Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch In 2009  (127k)

    The banking industry continues to suffer from the global recession and backlash from last fall’s financial crisis. While it’s tempting to believe that bank-related technology investment is dead, financial services firms are actively looking for specialized applications and solutions to help address system weaknesses that they could afford to ignore during the boom years. This report describes eight companies that address diverse or merging banking industry needs like fraud prevention, sales skills development, and credit and lending efficiency.

  • Articles
    Smart Order Routing: The Route to Liquidity Access & Best Execution  (198k)

    Best execution is no longer a luxury. It is a necessity. But defining and achieving best execution is more difficult than ever, given the rapidly evolving liquidity landscape.

  • Whitepapers
    What If... You Could Have Heard the Bubble Bursting?  (3076k)

    When all else fails, it is human nature to ask “what if we did it differently next time?” The financial services industry has certainly needed to ask a number of soul-searching questions of late. Part of the questioning has been driven by the regulatory fraternity as they look to plaster over some rather large cracks. However, some of the questions are also echoing in boardrooms as banks’ leaders examine how better, more practical capabilities – like managing their cash flows on an intraday versus the next day basis – can not only help the institution survive but actively compete in a more challenging environment.

  • Whitepapers
    Real-Time Risk Management Whitepaper  (964k)

    The credit crisis is demonstrating to clients and shareholders (and taxpayers!) that financial institutions had inadequate levels of controls for managing risk. Regulators have come under scrutiny for the effectiveness of their controls and are now engaged in exploring and defining new measures to combat the crisis and prevent a recurrence. Governments faced with the toughest economic challenges since WW2 are doing everything in their power to stabilize the global economy by supporting financial institutions with liquidity and applying pressure to ensure a restart of the credit flow.

  • Articles
    Complex Event Processing Provides the Engine for Event-Driven SOA  (54k)

    Over the past few years, the IT community has recognized the benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures, wholeheartedly embracing the move away from monolithic applications and to applications built from systems of loosely coupled services.