First off, let’s ask: “What’s so great about Snowflake?” Lots and lots of discussion about Snowflake. It’s new and novel. As with any technology, there are pros and cons. Let’s talk about that! While Snowflake data warehouses offer nice “pros” to businesses when compared to traditional data warehouse offerings, it’s important to understand the contrasting […]
Pros and Cons of Using Snowflake Data Cloud in Enterprise IT Read More »
K3 Takes Xplenty to the Mat Enterprise-scale data-dependent organizations will prefer K3 to Xplenty for several reasons: Flexibility – Xplenty can be deployed via a hosted cloud. K3 is comfortable working on hosted or private clouds and on-premises environments and flows data seamlessly to and from platforms living in either space. Error handling – Xplenty’s
Xplenty vs. K3: ETL software comparison Read More »
When you consider processes that are absolutely essential to your IT department, data transformation is at the top of the list. Since everything else relies on the data undergirding your decisions, the right applications can make the difference in terms of speed and quality. Since everything else relies on the data undergirding your decisions, the
SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) Pros, Cons, and Fragility Read More »
Why Choose Amazon Redshift for Data Warehousing? As one of the most popular platforms today, Amazon Redshift offers enterprise businesses everything they need for building a data warehouse or data lake. With a cloud-based, petabyte-scale data warehouse service, there are a lot of positives to Redshift’s technologies and capabilities… but we should always consider the
Pros and Cons of Using Redshift in Enterprise IT Read More »
Data managers and business analysts are often familiar with the term ETL, or or at least broadly aware that it stands for “Extract, Transform, Load.” A Google search of the three-letter initialism brings back nearly 44 million results, nearly all of which are related to data management. In recent years, the phrase “ELT” has cropped
ETL Versus ELT—Does It Matter? Read More »
CME and Abide are shutting down their EU reporting operations. This is putting some real pressure on trading firms. As low-cost reporting destinations, CME and Abide were able to attract a large number of customers who will now have to switch. Here are some things to think about. 1. Shutdown is the end of November
Three Things to Consider When Moving Trade Repositories Read More »
We’ve written before about the rise of data orchestration, the process by which enterprises connect disparate data sources so information flows to a central repository for further analysis. Using K3 ETL, organizations achieve better enterprise integration of their custom workflows, optimizing operations to allow you to de-silo your data organization. Yet there’s a key difference
Data Orchestration for SaaS and Legacy Applications Read More »
CME Group & BroadPeak Offer Cloud Access to CME STP K3 has been making it easy for firms to get a full electronic record of trading activity for years now. Now working with CME Group, K3 is taking another giant step…to your doorstep. You get a taxi or dinner delivered at the press of a
CME Group & BroadPeak Offer Cloud Access to CME STP Read More »
We’ve got a promotion for Q1 2014 for a free license of K3…and no, there isn’t a catch! We are ever busy at BroadPeak connecting to all sorts of exchanges and systems for our customers. In the past few months a number of clients have asked us about connectivity to the increasingly popular Nodal Exchange.
Free Software…Get Your Free Enterprise Software! Read More »
EMIR OTC Trade Reporting Officially Delayed Until February 2014 Keep your betting pools going on the EMIR Trade Reporting deadline. EMIR has officially moved the reporting deadline from Jan 1st 2014 to February 12th 2014 due to delays in approving official Trade Repositories (TR). Apparently some of the TR’s didn’t fill in their applications correctly.
EMIR OTC Trade Reporting Officially Delayed Until February 2014 Read More »
ICE Has Officially Gone Back to the Future(s) It’s a little known fact that any time there is a trade break at any of our clients using K3, I get an alert email. When we configure the email alerts I ask clients to put me on the distribution list for any trades received from the
ICE Has Officially Gone Back to the Future(s) Read More »
Last week ICE announced that it is registering its products as Futures. ICE has always traded “look alike” swaps that acted and behaved just like futures. As look-alike contracts, ICE was able to stay out of the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC. Dodd Frank changed all of that. So ICE seems to have adopted
POW! ICE Goes to the Future(s) Read More »
Dodd Frank | Trade Vault and DTCC “Gotchas” The compliance deadlines are looming. Some of the bigger Gotchas that keep coming up: Data Is Not In Our Trading System. The CFTC wants (XYZ Data Point). We don’t have that in our trading system! Case in Point: Option Expiration Time Zone. Obscure, yes. So much so
Dodd Frank | DTCC and Trade Vault “Gotchas” Read More »
Opinion | Call for Visionary CIOs, CTOs and COOs I’ve worked inside of a number of large trading shops now, both as an employee and as a consultant. As a result I’ve worked with some really smart people…people who can tell you all the minutae of how to price complex options, people who can build
Opinion | Call for Visionary CIOs, CTOs and COOs Read More »
Opinion | Enterprise Guys in a Social World So we are at TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC this week. K3 demo’d as a finalist in the Disrupt Battlefield Competition yesterday to an ocean of MacBooks. As far as we can tell we are only one of two enterprise applications here. Everything else? SOCIAL. Social Consumer, Social
Opinion | Enterprise Guys in a Social World Read More »
News | BroadPeak is a Finalist at Tech Crunch Disrupt The day has finally come. We’ve been under a news embargo for about a month, but K3 has been selected as a finalist at Tech Crunch Disrupt, a conference of new technology applications that are ‘disruptive’ to the current state. We have matured from a focus
News | BroadPeak is a Finalist at Tech Crunch Disrupt Read More »
Opinion | Stop the Insanity!!! In the ’90s there was this crazy person on the TV. No Really. Some buzz cut, buff woman named Susan Powter (if that’s her real name). And she had these totally insane infomercials that forever changed the phrase “Stop the Insanity!!” Far be it for me to comment on stopping
Opinion | Stop the Insanity!!! Read More »
BroadPeak Partners announces K3 can now be used to seamlessly manage price movements from ZEMA, a leading enterprise market data warehouse for energy and commodities. Trading firms relying on ZEMA for market prices can now leverage K3 to manage the distribution of ZEMA data throughout their enterprise. This gives firms a single point of control
News | K3 Integrates Seamlessly With Zema Read More »
BroadPeak Partners announces a newly added Trayport connection to K3. Firms trading European energy and commodity products can now automatically receive Trayport deals into their native trading systems directly using K3. Trayport allows a single connection to 7 exchanges and 18 brokers operating in the European commodities markets. K3 allows the enterprise to focus on
News | K3 Adds Trayport connection Read More »
Solutions
Quick Links
Request a Demo
© 2007-2024 BroadPeak Partners, LLC, All Rights Reserved | Privacy Notice This Site Uses Cookies
