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Market Heat Returns After A Prolonged Cooldown
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. The results indicate a growing market: We counted nearly 20% more deals in 2012 than in 2011 among firms that...

Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, And Temenos Lead, With SAP, Oracle, FIS, and Polaris Software Lab Pursuing Fast
Forrester evaluated world-leading banking platform products across 80 criteria and found that Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Temenos are in the Leader category. Infosys...
Global Banking Platform Deals 2012 — Regions
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. Our analysis of these deals by region reveals that growth ranged widely — from slight shrinkage to...

A Cold Breeze And Only One Hot Region Characterize The 2009 Market
Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey
Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that financial services firms fall into two groups: One focuses on single vendor technology stacks, allowing for easier...
Vision: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

I just returned from a business visit to India, and on the long way back, I had the time to sort out some observations and ideas on the future of the banking backbone that I had discussed with...
Some people say that the old Maya calendar predicts that the world will end in the year 2012. Will this happen? Most likely no. Without judging anybody’s beliefs in this ancient calendar: Some...
2009 Was Not The Best Of All Times
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2009 deals. Considering participants of both the 2008 and 2009 surveys, deal volume shrunk by 18% from 2008 to 2009....
Some Like It Hot
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Four regions — Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America — saw average to very strong...
A couple of days ago, global banking platform vendor Temenos announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Odyssey Financial Technologies, which specializes in the private banking, private...
The 2012 Survey Shows Global Activity And A Strong Regional Focus
Forrester surveyed 25 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2011 deals. Our regional analysis shows that varying levels of vendor success caused fluctuations in regional activity...

A Tool For Initial Steps Toward Selection Of A Transformation Service Firm
Forrester surveyed six global transformation service firms with focused offerings in the off-the-shelf banking platform space. Their transformation service offerings are broad and rich, covering many...
There Are Many Reasons For Failure, But Technology Is The Least Significant
Application development and delivery teams know that they need to manage nearly unmanageable complexity when it comes to designing, selecting, and delivering a new banking platform to transform a...
A few days ago, I “rediscovered” a brochure from a museum in Stockholm. It reminded me of an early 17th century warship: The Vasa. She was the most powerful warship of her time —...
The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation
Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...
Use Processes, Not Features And Functions, To Identify The Best Solution
Based on best and next practices for off-the-shelf banking platform selection and Forrester's generic banking business processes, Forrester has identified an approach that accelerates banking...
Findings From Our 2010 Financial Services Architecture Online Survey
During the summer of 2010, Forrester surveyed 80 IT decision-makers in financial services (FS) firms in Europe, North America, and select countries in other regions, including Australia, Japan, and...
Demand Centers And Functional Heterogeneity Make Selection More Difficult
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Core banking and channels continue as important factors in many regions. Beyond that, regional functional...
2011 Saw Changes To Functional Demand But Not To How Functionality Gets Delivered
Forrester surveyed 25 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2011 deals and analyzed the results to find patterns in the functionality sold. Our analysis shows that the key...
