S&P Global Commodity Insights

S&P Global Commodity Insights (formerly known as Platts) provides benchmark price assessments for the physical commodities markets. As we have noted before, if you hear  on the news that Brent Crude is trading at $100 a barrel, it’s likely that S&P...

Sallie Mae: SOA Message Generation

On a previous project we worked with Sallie Mae to build an enterprise ontology for their loan business. After the ontology was complete, they decided to outsource a new line of loans to a third-party SaaS vendor. Shortly after making that decision, they realized that...

Sallie Mae: Enterprise Ontology

We were retained by the leading provider of Student Loans to build an enterprise ontology.  We conducted over a dozen workshops and facilitated brainstorming sessions and many  dozen more one-on-one interviews, and reviewed reams of documentation. In the end we...

Broadridge: Legacy Understanding

Broadridge: Legacy Understanding This firm processes some 70% of all the back office of Wall Street. They have three major systems, for different types of financial instruments and jurisdictions. The three systems are barely integrated. Bringing a client up on any of...