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Here is the Ultimate Fin Tech Glossary got a fwd email (source internet).
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Posted on September 23rd, 2017 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
Here is the Ultimate Fin Tech Glossary got a fwd email (source internet).
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Posted on September 6th, 2017 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
Blockchain technology has created waves around the World, bringing transparency and massively reducing costs in sectors like Banking, Finance, Logistics and Manufacturing, among others. And this is only the beginning…
What is blockchain? And what are the potential implications for finance?
Great primer
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Posted on July 10th, 2015 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
BYOE aka Bring your own encryption is a security model that gives cloud customers complete control over the encryption of their data by allowing them to deploy a visualized instance of their own encryption software in tandem with the application they are hosting in the cloud.
BYOE can help an organization that wishes to take advantage of cloud services to address both regulatory compliance and data privacy concerns in a third-party multi-tenant environment. This approach allows a customer to use the encryption technology that best suits the customer’s needs, regardless of the cloud provider’s underlying IT infrastructure.
Bring-Your-Own-Encryption (BYOE) Allows Full Confidence and Control Over Sensitive Data and Security
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Posted on July 27th, 2014 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
In June 2014, Oracle unveiled Oracle Mobile Application Framework.
Oracle Mobile Application Framework is a hybrid mobile framework that enables developers to rapidly develop single-source applications and deploy to both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms.
Features include support for multiple integrated development environments, including Oracle JDeveloper and Eclipse (through Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse); support for multiple development languages, support for Apache Cordova plug-ins; and support for applications developed under Oracle ADF Mobile.
Oracle recommends that new mobile application development be done with the new Oracle Mobile Application Framework. Some Key Highlights Includes:
Oracle MAF – Business Benefits
Here is Oracle Mobile Application Framework Architecture [ Adopted from www.Oracle.com ]
Here is YouTube lesson, for More insights.
Additionl Note
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Posted on October 4th, 2013 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
Oracle Hyperion Tax Provision is a comprehensive, easy-to-use global tax provision solution that is purpose built for the automation of the accounting for income tax process. The Software is designed by tax users for tax users, and leverages the existing finance data and processes without impacting finance’s current financial close procedures.
The solution addresses both IFRS and US GAAP requirements, and includes tax maintenance wizards that are designed to be easily maintained by the tax department. Since Oracle Hyperion Tax Provision is architected on top of the Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) platform, both finance and tax can realize significant efficiencies in training both the casual and power users involved in the tax reporting process (e.g. regional controllers around the world and power users in the tax department).
Tax Provision calculates your company’s global tax provision, effective tax rate, and deferred tax for tax provisioning purposes. The application is designed to comply with the standards for accounting for income taxes under US GAAP ASC740 and IFRS IAS12.
Those who are not accounting background , can understand
A Tax Provision is…
Donot get confused with As Tax Provision is NOT…
To summarize, The new Module encompasses all stages of the corporate tax provision process:
Why this software care about Tax?
Hyperion Tax Provision provides the tax department with the same strong data collection and management tools that the finance department is accustomed to. By providing the tax department with the same platform as is used by the finance department, the coordination between the two departments improves the financial close process, since the financial close cannot be complete without the tax close.You can get further details at Oracle site .
Installing Hyperion Tax Provision
The Hyperion Tax Provision requires, at minimum, Hyperion Financial Management Release 11.1.2.2 with Patch Set Update: 11.1.2.2.303.
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Posted on April 28th, 2013 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
REIT is a company that mainly owns, and in most cases, operates income-producing real estate such as apartments, shopping centers,offices, hotels and warehouses. Some REITs also engage in financing real estate. The shares of many REITs are traded on major stock exchanges.
With changes in the tax rates, a number of other operating businesses are evaluating the benefits of conversion to a REIT status.
As a real estate investment trust, a company is allowed to distribute 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders and is subject to lower taxes. This Post will help you to gove more insights on REIT.
REITs can be bought and sold like listed securities and generates revenue through rental payments from the properties under it.
This revenue is distributed to the unit holders either on a semi-annual or annual basis. REITs are known to some as “pass-through entities” since they pass significant amount of their profits to investors.[ref:http://sqft.asia]
A REIT is an entity that:
REIT structure provides significant benefits to stockholders
Substantial tax savings Disciplined capital allocation strategy New opportunities for value creation
Are REITs located only in the US?
REITs are now global: Nearly 30 countries have adopted variations of the U.S. REIT model. Today, anyone in the world can invest in REITs around the world
What are some examples of REITs?
REITs own many of the shopping malls, apartment buildings, student housing complexes, homes, medical facilities, office buildings, hotels, cell towers and timberlands that we use every day.
These sort of companies currently exploring REIT status represent new REIT property types
Tower Companies
Tower companies build permanent structures on land and rent space on them to telecom companies.Data Centers
Data center REITs lease server space to their tenants, and they have been in the index since 2004.Storage
Storage REITs have been around for decades.Prisons
Prison REITs first entered the index in the 1990s.Lodging/ Resorts
There have been dedicated hotel REITs since 1970.Infrastructure
There currently is an Infrastructure sector in the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index.Billboards and Gaming
There haven’t been billboard or gaming REITs in the index in the past, but their basic business models, like those of other REITs, involve providing land and the improvements on it for lease to tenants.
Are all REITs the same?
The REIT industry has a diverse profile, which offers many benefits.
Types of REITs
REITs often are classified in one of two major categories: equity REITs or mortgage REITs.
Equity REITs derive most of their revenue from rent. Mortgage REITs derive most of their revenue from interest earned on their investments in mortgages or mortgage backed securities.A third type is Hybrid REITs – A combination of the two aforementioned REITs
REITs can be publicly registered with the SEC and have their shares listed and traded on major stock exchanges, publicly registered with the SEC but not have their shares listed or traded on major stock exchanges, or private (not registered with the SEC and not having their shares listed or traded).
Source from Internet , Ninety percent of listed REITs are Equity REITs; the remaining 10 percent are Mortgage REITs.
Qualification as REIT for U.S. Tax Purposes
In order for a company to qualify as a REIT, it must comply with certain provisions within the Internal Revenue Code.
As required by the Tax Code, a REIT must:
Why should someone invest in REITs? What advantages can REITs potentially offer investors? [ Source Internet]
Who manages a REIT?
REIT Provides Significant Stockholder Benefits
Three Key Value Drivers
Facts About REIT Conversions
A number of companies have announced recently that they are exploring converting to a REIT. Why?
There are two primary reasons a company would consider converting to a REIT:
1) Business model and core competencies – REIT status is available to companies that are primarily real estate companies, the majority of whose revenues and assets come from real estate. They’re choosing to focus on their core real estate business and operate as REITs.
2) Macro-economic trends – Today’s slow-growth economic environment and the Federal Reserve’s commitment to keep interest rates low for an extended period have produced a global search for yield and strong valuations for income stocks. The requirement that REITs pay out at least 90 percent of their taxable income as dividends makes them especially desirable now as excellent income stocks.
Globalization of Real Estate Securities
Many countries have adopted a REIT-type structure:
LPT – Listed Property Trusts (Australia) Dutch FBI – Fiscal Beleggings Instelling (Netherlands) S-REIT – Singapore Real Estate Investment Trust J-REIT – Japanese Real Estate Investment Trust SIIC – Sociétés d’investissements Immobiliers Cotées (France) Canadian REITs – Legislated in 1993, growing universe Belgium REITs – Growing universe Hong Kong REITs – Largest REIT IPO Completed in November 2005 Bulgarian REITs – Newest country with REIT legislation Malaysian REITs – Growing universe
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Posted on February 6th, 2013 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
Oracle with Endeca plans to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together enabling businesses to make stronger and more profitable decisions.
Therefore, Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (Formerly Endeca Latitude) is an enterprise data discovery platform for rapid, intuitive exploration and analysis of data from any combination of structured and unstructured sources.
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery enables organizations to extend their existing business analytics investments to unstructured sources – including social media, websites, content systems, email, and
database text – providing unprecedented visibility into data and business processes, saving time and cost, and leading to better business decisions.
With Oracle Endeca Information Discovery, users can:
The Architecture for Oracle Endeca Information Discovery
Let’s start by briefly reviewing the Endeca Information Discovery architecture. The architecture consists of 3 main components:
This can be best understood as fig 1 below:
Apart from this there are Extensible Value-Added Modules are
What type of analysis is Oracle Endeca Information Discovery designed for?
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery is in supporting a users’ need to better understand the data. In expanding analysis inputs beyond structured content to unstructured sources, users can better understand the color and qualitative insights which support quantitative results.
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery enables this type of analysis through Oracle Endeca Server, a hybrid search/analytical database that is specifically optimized for discovery, not reporting or online transaction processing.
Highly scalable, column-oriented, and in-memory – without being memory bound – Oracle Endeca Server supports navigation, search, and analysis of any kind of information including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured content.
This also provide a broad suite of packaged analytic applications to extend corporate business processes to include unstructured data
- Integrate unstructured data into ERP, Supply Chain, Human Capital, CRM and EPM applications
- Integrate unstructured data into specialized edge applications – PLM, MDM, Web Commerce, Analytic applications
- Extend industry specific business processes and vertical applications to include unstructured data
Search capabilities of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery provide
Oracle Endeca Information Discovery provides two different, and complementary, types of search:
- Value – or dimension – search provides type-ahead autocompletion that enables users to find attribute values and help disambiguate queries by identifying which attributes contain the search terms.
- Record search provides advanced full text search across any single or combination of fields, leveraging a variety of configurable term matching and relevancy ranking algorithms to retrieve results for display and analysis.
Know the facts and dependecy with other Prducts
Resources for Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID)
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Posted on January 13th, 2013 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
Oracle MDM Suite – These are the set of applications (MDM Hubs) designed to consolidate, cleanse, enrich, and synchronize these key business data objects across the enterprise and across time.
It includes pre-defined comprehensive data models with powerful applications to load, cleanse, govern and share the master data with all business processes, operational applications and business intelligence systems.
This includes following components –
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Posted on January 12th, 2013 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Oracle Exadata is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and OLTP applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating on private clouds.
It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant.
Simple and fast to implement, it is ready to tackle your largest and most important database applications – and often them 10 times faster, or more.
Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
The industry’s first in-memory BI machine that delivers the fastest performance for business intelligence and planning applications
Best-in-class enterprise BI platform, in-memory analytics software, and hardware optimized to work together
Advanced data visualization and exploration to quickly provide actionable insight from large amounts of data
Fastest solution for business intelligence, modeling, forecasting, and planning applications
Access to all Oracle and non-Oracle enterprise data sources
No limits on your users, your data, or your applications
Oracle Advanced Analytics
Oracle Advanced Analytics extends the Oracle database into a comprehensive advanced analytics platform through two major components: Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining.
With Oracle Advanced Analytics, customers have a comprehensive platform for real-time analytics that delivers insight into key business subjects such as churn prediction, product recommendations, and fraud alerting.
Oracle NoSql Database
The Oracle NoSQL Database is a distributed key-value database. It is designed to provide highly reliable, scalable and available data storage across a configurable set of systems that function as storage nodes.
Key Features are
Simple Data Model Scalability Predictable Behavior High Availability Easy Administration
Oracle Big Data Appliance
An engineered system optimized for acquiring, organizing, and loading unstructured data into Oracle Database 11g. It combines optimized hardware components with new software solutions to deliver the most complete big data solution.
Pre-integrated full rack configuration with 18 of Oracle’s Sun servers that include InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity to simplify implementation and management
- Cloudera distribution including Apache Hadoop to acquire and organize data
- Oracle NoSQL Database Community Edition to acquire data
- Additional system software including Oracle Linux, Oracle Java Hotspot VM, and an open source distribution of R
Oracle Big Data Connectors
Suite of software designed to connect big data software with data in Oracle Database 11g.
- Oracle Loader for Hadoop
- Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop
- Oracle R Connector for Hadoop
- Oracle Direct Connector for HDFS
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Posted on December 14th, 2012 by Sanjit Anand || Email This Post
Oracle offers a broad portfolio of products to help enterprises acquire, manage, and integrate big data with existing information, with the goal of achieving a complete view of business in the fastest, most reliable, and cost effective way .
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance, and Oracle Big Data Connectors is one such solution and portfolio of products bundled together to provide an integrated solution. The good about Oracle Big Data Appliance comes with fact that the process of Acquire, Organize and Analyze work quite closely with their proven Oracle RDBMS technology and thus gives Enterprises flexibility to cover SQL and NoSQL (Key-Value store databases for unstructured, semi-structured data) within the horizon of their analytical needs.
The Oracle Big Data Appliance is an engineered system of hardware and software designed to help enterprises derive maximum value from their big data strategies. It combines optimized hardware with a comprehensive software stack featuring specialized solutions developed by Oracle to deliver a complete, easy-to-deploy offering for acquiring, organizing and analyzing big data, with enterprise-class performance, availability, supportability, and security.
The Oracle Big Data Appliance integrated software includes :
The Oracle Big Data Appliance offers the following benefits:
Oracle Big Data Connectors is an optimized software suite to help enterprises integrate data stored in Hadoop or Oracle NoSQL Databases with Oracle Database 11g. It enables very fast data movements between these two environments using Oracle Loader for Hadoop and Oracle Direct Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), while Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop and Oracle R Connector for Hadoop provide non-Hadoop experts with easier access to HDFS data and MapReduce functionality.
Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine is purpose-built to deliver the fastest performance for business intelligence (BI) and planning applications. It is designed to provide real-time, speed-of-thought visual analysis, and enable new types of analytic applications so organizations can make decisions faster in the context of rapidly shifting business conditions, while broadening user adoption of BI though introduction of interactive visualization capabilities. Organizations can extend BI initiatives beyond reporting and dashboards to modeling, planning, forecasting, and predictive analytics.
These offerings, along with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Database 11g, create a complete set of technologies for leveraging and integrating big data, and help enterprises quickly and efficiently turn information into insight.
More Information
Data sheets, white papers and other interesting information can be found here:
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