Six months later Microsoft, a long-time partner, came to SunGard to talk about Windows 8.
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He also participated in taking SunGard private and is chairman of its board.
Jennifer Hanes, executive vice-president, reconciliations, SunGard Ambit corporate banking, said banks need to be constantly on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary.
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Keith Tilley, managing director of SunGard, which helps companies to deal with unexpected events, said its clients had so far not faced too much disruption.
SunGard took the designs to clients and went through some iterations.
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The acquisition of SunGard has opened up the possibility of far larger deals, especially with its model of a consortium of private-equity buyers combining generalist funds and a technology specialist such as Silver Lake.
SunGard plans to run some benchmarking to compare the Windows 8 device to regular desktops but Chapman, speaking at the SWIFT Sibos international banking conference in Osaka this week, seemed confident the Windows 8 device would win.
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In addition, they were able to meet every two weeks with Chris Conde, former CEO of SunGard, who acts as a mentor in the program and has since joined the boards of two of the participating firms.
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Richard Chapman, director of product management operations at SunGard, said the combination of touch and keyboard, and the ability to expand and shrink data on the screen with a swipe of a finger, significantly improves back office speed.
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Then Intel, which has worked closely with SunGard on making some of its risk software run in parallel to analyze millions of records, approached to talk about the processing power of the devices it was designing for the new operating system.
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