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Dec 2004
Report Three: Grid Computing – The Financial Services Opportunity

This report analyzes current grid deployments in the financial services sector, the future requirements of grid users in the space and the anticipated levels of adoption. The report focuses mainly on the investment banking sector, which is leading the charge to grid computing in financial services. Banks, especially investment banks, are notoriously reluctant to discuss IT projects. Nevertheless, the report includes 11 case studies and an overview of additional grid computing activities among retail banks and insurers. The report also analyzes the strategies and positioning of six major suppliers and five ISVs, as well as providing an overview of ISV activity in the financial services sector.

> Early-adopter case studies:

- Investment banks: ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch, TD Securities, UBS and Wachovia, as well as a case study of the risk management unit of an unnamed major investment bank

- Additional case studies: Two unnamed retail banks, an unnamed European private bank, and insurers Genworth and Nationwide

> Vendor assessments:

- Major players: DataSynapse, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, Platform Computing and Sun Microsystems

- ISVs: Aspeed Software (formerly Powerllel), Enterprise Iron, Genalytics, GigaSpaces and Integrasoft

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