Just-in-time reporting

Banks need to move from a warehousing architecture to one that provides for just-in-time reporting. By Ron Dembo

The front office of a bank today is likely to have diverse systems for originating and trading products – equities, interest rates, derivatives, etc – each of which comes from a different vendor. In the middle and back office are those that use information from these systems – compliance, risk management, general ledger and so on. They tend to need the information from several systems at once, and often require some processing to be done on the data, maybe some valuations or