Speak of the devil…
Three companies with best-in-class solutions for different critical processes faced by financial services firms announce that they have established common interfaces for their products that allows sharing of data, thereby creating a powerful, integrated suite of solutions that covers activities from database updating, through proposal creation and management, to digital document management and presentation/pitchbook generation.
The three-company data sharing technology partnership involves Accent Technologies, Inc. (Accent Librarian(TM) is the leading presentation and pitchbook management solution); Proposal Software, Inc. (Proposal Management and Production System, Financial Edition v2006 or PMAPS® 2006, is the leading proposal management solution); and eVestment Alliance (eASE Exchange, is the leading tool used to update consultant databases).
wow. looks like i got out just in time so all this wouldn’t come crashing down on me. i wonder how many hours a certain lead developer had to spend doing this considering that the development “team” only consisted of 3 people a couple months ago. Well, this all goes without saying that the probability of this being pure marketing-speak and a complete sham is not a far off idea. I wouldn’t be surpised at all if this another thing cloaked in smoke and mirrors.
I don’t get stuff all that often on that Google News alert. It will be interesting to see what the next one is. :-)