Rivercalm

Rivercalm provides specialist marketing consultancy for clients whose target markets include:

Financial Services including wholesale banking, retail banking, private banking, capital markets, securities/brokerage, treasury and wealth management
Insurance
Manufacturing/Supply Chain
Telcoms
Utilities

Working with Rivercalm, our clients:

Achieve required market positioning
Increase their brand value
Gain recognition as industry leaders and innovators
Build competitive advantage through enhanced profile
Influence key decision makers in their target markets
Attract new channels to market
Increase sales and exceed sales goals
Raise awareness within existing and potential investor communities attract potential high quality employees

Our clients include:

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Transaction Banking Business Unit
ABN AMRO is a prominent international bank, with history going back to 1824.
ABN AMRO ranks eighth in Europe and 13th in the world based on total assets, with more than 4,500 branches in 53 countries, a staff of more than 105,000 full-time equivalents and total assets of EUR 987 billion (as at 31 December 2006).

www.abnamro.com

ACE Software Solutions
ACE Software Solutions provides integrated, end-to-end Straight Through Processing (STP) solutions based on advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques. The company’s Pelican™ solution offers fully integrated real-time payments, liquidity and cash management. Clients include financial institutions worldwide including BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, RBC-Dexia Financial Group and American Express. ACE Software Solutions is headquartered in New Jersey with regional offices in London, Brussels and Mumbai.

www.acesw.com

Asset Control
Asset Control offers centralized data management to financial industry firms through a full range of in-house and outsourced options. A choice of developer tools, turnkey software solutions and outsourced services enable users to optimize their investment data for efficiency, cost control, reduced operational risk and increased value from their data.

Derived from the robust and reliable AC Plus modular framework, the Asset Control product set includes data solutions addressing market risk, counterparty credit risk, security master, research and corporate actions, as well as global data networking and administration. Handling data from vendors and in-house systems, these solutions collect, validate, normalize, and consolidate data into cleansed composite “golden copy” sets for business use.

Customers include Abbey National, ABN AMRO, Barclays Capital, Bayerische Landesbank , BBVA, Commerzbank, IBM (Dresdner Bank), Grupo Santander, Harvard Management Company, HSH Nordbank, HypoVereinsbank, ING, LCH.Clearnet, Robeco Groep, Société Générale, Standard Bank, Standard Chartered and Union Investment, as well as a super-major global energy group. Established in 1991, Asset Control is a privately held firm with operations in London, New York and the Netherlands.

www.asset-control.com

BankServ
Founded in 1996 by a banking industry veteran, privately-held BankServ has emerged as a leading developer of cutting-edge electronic payments technology, and now works with more than 400 banks in 52 countries around the globe.

www.bankserv.com

Devant
Devant was created in 2003 to provide Contractual and Commercial Management services. We believe that contracts should be a tool for managing your business relationships, rather than just an 'insurance policy'. This means that they need to reflect how you do business - how you sell, and deliver your products or services, and your company's culture, tactical and strategic objectives.

This approach has lead to the development of a commercially-focussed but contractually competent team. We are proud of our commercial contracts expertise, and our innovative approach to drafting and negotiation, and are working hard to find new ways to deliver this expertise to a wider audience.

The development of Devant Training is a step in this direction. We launched Devant Training in September 2006 as a platform for sharing knowledge and understanding of how contracts can add value to the commercial relationship.

You can read more about this on our Training page. We are not a law firm.

This means that we can offer advice and opinions, based on sound contractual principles and extensive business experience, that help our clients to make great commercial decisions.

www.devant.co.uk

Financial Tradeware
Financial Tradeware provides integrated solutions for Investment Managers, Fund Managers and Hedge Funds, covering the full trade life cycle. It is part of the Dharma Holdings (www.dharma.lu) group of companies and benefits from the joint contributions and experiences of financial services professionals, business analysts and developers within the group. Financial Tradeware is a Microsoft partner and all the products are developed on .NET

www.f-tradeware.com

GTSoftware
Founded in 1982, Atlanta-based GT Software is a leading provider of rapid SOA development solutions that leverage mainframe resources, making the mainframe an active participant in SOA initiatives. With GT Software's products, mainframe developers can quickly and easily model, automate, and extend mainframe processes for deployment as key components of an enterprise SOA solution. With more than 2,000 installations worldwide, GT Software provides high-quality, innovative and cost-effective solutions for many Fortune 1000 companies.

www.gtsoftware.com

Hillary Software
Hillary Software enjoys an outstanding reputation in the development and support of applications that promote productivity and maximize resources in today's increasingly complex computing environment. Known by the company we keep, Hillary's products have delivered the difference for clients in the public sector as well as the Education, Manufacturing, Technology, Utilities, Insurance, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Publishing, and Finance markets.

www.hillary.com

IASA (International Association of Software Architects)
The International Association of Software Architects is the premier association focused on the architecture profession through the advancement of best practices and education. Established in 2002, IASA delivers programs and services to IT architects of all levels around the world. A non-profit business association, IASA is dedicated to the advancement and sharing of issues related to software architecture in the enterprise, product, education and government sectors. The association is committed to improving the quality of the IT architecture industry by developing and delivering standards, education programs and developing accreditation programs and services that optimize the development of architecture profession. IASA membership consists of approximately 5,000 members located in more than 40 countries.

www.iasahome.org

International Private Banking Systems
International Private Banking Systems is a specialist provider of wealth management software for the private banking sector. The company began operations in 1993 and the flagship product is IPBS - a fully integrated accounting and management information system that provides all of the front, middle and back office support services required by international private banks, trust companies, mutual fund administrators and wealth management professionals. International Private Banking Systems now serves clients across the globe, including the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Turks & Caicos Islands, Bermuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, Vanuatu and the United States.

www.ipbs.com

The Integration Consortium
The Integration Consortium, a non-profit global advocacy group, was developed to promote Enterprise Application Integration through sponsored research, the establishment of standards and guidelines, best practices and articulation of strategic and measurable benefits. The member driven consortium, designed as an EAI information hub encompasses marketplace education, resource tools and EAI trends, providing members a venue to develop, create and debate.

www.integrationconsortium.org

Lustratus Research
Lustratus Research Ltd, formerly known as Illuminatus, was formed in 2006 as a brand new, independent source of opinion, research and analysis relating to the software marketplace. The company delivers unbiased analysis of global software technology trends for senior IT and business unit management, shedding light on the latest developments and best practices and interpreting them into business value and impact. Lustratus analysts include some of the top thought leaders in market segments such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business integration.

www.lustratusresearch.com

MuleSource
MuleSource is the leading provider of open source infrastructure and integration software. Founded by the creators of the Mule project, the world's most reliable and widely-used open source ESB and integration platform, MuleSource delivers enterprise-class support and services to the hundreds of organizations that have downloaded the open source project worldwide. Founded in 2006 and backed by investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures, MuleSource is headquartered in San Francisco.

www.mulesource.com

TradeShape
Tradeshape is an innovative provider of cash and liquidity management solutions that empower financial institutions with the ability to better manage their capital once a trade has been executed and thus to 'know their traded world'. The solutions are targeted at fund managers, wealth managers and hedge funds. Tradeshape was founded by executives with over 60 years of experience in financial messaging, cash management and automated transaction processing with the aim of delivering increased liquidity control and better financial transaction processing and analysis. Tradeshape is located in Cork, Ireland, and London, United Kingdom.

www.tradeshape.com

webMethods
webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM) provides business integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize available IT assets to drive business process productivity. webMethods delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business integration platform that incorporates proven integration technology with next generation capabilities into one interoperable set of tools that delivers a unique combination of efficiency, agility and control. webMethods combines industry leadership with a zealous commitment to customers to deliver tangible business value to more than 1,250 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan.

www.webmethods.com