Channel 9 - Entries tagged with financial services

SQLShorts: Big Data and Twitter

Mike Wilmot — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:46:15 GMT

StreamInsight is a SQL Server Complex Event Processing Engine (.NET) that can be leveraged for manufacturing or financial applications. It can manage and mine data for different trend, conditions virtually instantaneously. A practical application is to stream Twitter data to StreamInsight and analyze the data with Microsoft Azure and Hadoop. Front end tools can also include PowerPivot, Power View and Mobile Devices such as Microsoft Surface and iPad.

Corelytics Provides Financial Dashboards for Small Businesses Through Windows Azure Marketplace

Bruce D Kyle — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:07:45 GMT

Saas provider Coreconnex explain why they chose Windows Azure to deploy their product for small business. Their product enables non-financial people to understand the financial graphical "picture" of their business. CEO Frank Coker and Chief Architect Torsten Kablitz talk with Azure Incubation Architect Evangelist Greg Oliver about the business of financial dashboards and the technology decisions involved in moving such a system to Windows Azure.

The team explains the decision to use Windows Azure was based around the integration with Visual Studio for development tools, integration with Intuit in the cloud, their need add customers quickly, and up time across multiple geographies. Their capital investments are also reduced signifiantly by going with Microsoft's cloud solution.

The Corelytics financial dashboard is available at the Windows Azure Marketplace. The product enables small businesses to save time and money by providing unique insight into performance allowing business owners to monitor key indicators, see visuals of trends and forecasts and compare performance to their industry peers and annual goals.

About Coreconnex

Coreconnex helps small businesses save time and money accessing a clearer picture of financial performance using the Corelytics financial dashboard and predictive analytics.

About Windows Azure Marketplace

Windows Azure Marketplace is a global online market for customers and partners to share, buy, and sell finished SaaS applications and premium datasets. Whether you are looking for new customers for your Windows Azure based application or datasets, or are seeking new Windows Azure solutions to power your business, the Windows Azure Marketplace is a one-stop location supported by Microsoft to help you succeed.

Avalara Maps Sales Taxes on Windows Azure

Bruce D Kyle — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:34:04 GMT

Turns out that sales taxes are more difficult to calculate than it might seem. More than 15,000 taxable regions inside the US form a mosiac for sales tax calculation. Fire districts, state districts, special taxation districts, and state rules on items all play a part. Avalara put together a new product to show the lines between taxation districts on Windows Azure.

ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle talks with Jared Vogt, Avalara's CTO, about how they developed the services, how they needed to think about moving an application from their data centers into Windows Azure. When they wanted to show on a map how a tax is calculated, they turned to Windows Azure and Bing Maps. Jared provides a demo too of GeoSalesTax.com.

About Avalara

Avalara is a leader in providing sales tax service online. The company provides the sales tax calculation services as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering using Windows Server and SQL Server.

Headquartered in Bainbridge Island, WA, Avalara is the recognized leader in web-based sales tax solutions, and is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes. Avalara’s AvaTax family of products provides end-to-end compliance solutions and is regarded as the fastest, easiest, most accurate and affordable way for companies to address their statutory tax requirements. Avalara is the industry's most trusted provider of sales and use tax automation solutions and is one of America’s fastest growing companies earning recognitions such as Microsoft’s SaaS Partner of the Year for 2010.

Surface: The Banking Demo

Laura Foy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:28:00 GMT

Are you frustrated with all the conflicting information out there when it comes to investments, mortgages, insurance, etc? Well, soon you'll be able to walk into your bank and sit in front of a Microsoft Surface table and have it all displayed for you neatly with outstanding visual clarity. An in depth demonstration will be offered at the upcoming 7^th annual Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Industry Solutions Conference 2009 where you will learn about solutions in Microsoft technologies relevant to the Financial Services and Health & Life Sciences industries, as well as hear about the latest advancements in major industries such as media, communications, retail and hospitality. This two day event will be held in New York City on May 5^th and 6^th.

Contents are tailored for developers, architects, business decision makers, and technology decision makers in large enterprise organizations a clear roadmap of the Microsoft development platform. We will give specific examples of real world solutions using the best of breed technology to bring you from where you are today, to where you will be tomorrow. This is the only conference that will show case enterprise customer solutions directly from the mouth of developers that work in the enterprise industry space as well hear from Microsoft and their partners on topics such as Cloud Computing, Application Lifecycle Management and User Experience (REGISTER HERE) and you can see a quick over-view in this clip. Show me the money!!