Since like attracts like, it is easy to see how clusters of excellence form in health care and pharmaceuticals, and in associated financial and data services.
In addition to Facebook, it has customers in financial services and data networking.
In the past two months, Digital Realty has announced deals to lease space to BT Global Financial Services and Horizon Data Center Solutions.
The two are among the biggest contributors to investment-banking revenues: in debt underwriting alone, they are responsible for 30% of dollar volumes, according to Thomson Financial Services, a data collector.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) the Financial Services Authority's successor in regulating the financial services industry is bringing out its own customer complaints data on Monday.
Also, activity in the eurozone's manufacturing and services sector continued to contract in May, closely-watched preliminary data from Markit, a financial information services company, showed.
But ultimately, tech companies compiling and using all this data is no different than what consumers have allowed financial services companies to do over recent decades with credit card data.
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The goal of Data Privacy Day is to educate people and companies on the vulnerability of personal data, including information shared on social networks, financial data and anything stored on cloud services.
Manufacturing generates about 12 percent of national GDP, a higher percentage than many other sectors including retail, wholesale trade, health care or financial services, according to data from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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They do not hold confidential customer data like credit card info. (In fact, the companies that need to keep confidential data, like financial and health services firms, are still not embracing cloud based systems as of yet.) But for the rest of us, CRM systems are basically places that store activities, appointments, emails, notes and phone calls.
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For situations such as this, a variety of firms provide data and services that help financial advisers pick apart hypothetical performance in broad strokes or granular pieces.
India's Infosys slashed its earnings forecast for the year (it derives a large chunk of its business from data services to America's financial companies).
In financial services, companies are tagging financial data with a language called XBRL, which helps identify related items in different financial documents and allows computers to automatically generate complex financial reports.
It added that full ownership would allow future products to be more closely tailored to Sainsbury's customers, using Nectar card data to drive sales in both financial services and the core supermarket business.
Index has a particular focus on companies in commerce, marketplaces, cloud and big data, mobile and social, and financial services.
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GigaSpaces provides a commercial alternative that has also won fans among some Web, cloud computing and online gaming firms, as well as financial services and telecom players with very large data analysis problems.
Created financial information services firm Innovative Market Systems to sell financial data, analytic tools to Wall Street.
It currently includes data centres, communications, online financial transactions and consultancy services.
Dr. Carl Abrams, financial services sector business executive at IBM, said data in the industry is growing at 70 percent a year.
In financial services, the ability to drill down into data and find something that is out of whack on a mobile device and then send an email will be prized.
Future servers will be delivered for big data, high-performance computing, gaming, financial services, genomics, facial recognition, video analysis and other applications.
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The senior vice president of a large financial services division was feeling overloaded by a superabundance of weekly data.
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Venture Economics Information Services, a research firm owned by Thomson Financial Securities Data and based in Newark, Ner Jersey, did the calculations for us.
Tough times for the financial services industry translate into tough times for the news and data providers that supply traders and dealmakers with the information they need to do their jobs.
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Kroll's software had to synch not only with banks' mainframes but also with programs run by intermediaries--such as Harland Financial Services and FIS--that track deposit and loan data and integrate them with banks' general ledgers.
Equinix, a provider of global data center services which host hundreds of telecommunications connections and many financial exchanges including NASDAQ OMX, CBOE Stock Exchange and BATS Europe, is launching the Equinix Marketplace.
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Even those pages that do not have negative information on them about a company may be a problem if it is, say, a financial services company that needs to archive and pre-approve all data posted online.
In financial services it has clients among hedge funds, large banks, news data management firms and insurance companies.
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Keep in mind that the data business is massive and spans critical industries like health care, financial services and energy.
On some data, particularly when you drill down to sectors including hospitality, financial services and construction, they have good reason for doubt.
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