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SPOTLIGHT
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Xignite teams with TIBCO to demo how to simplify the development of web
applications
AJAX is gaining ground as a new way of creating web applications. AJAX takes advantage of technology already existing in the browser; thus, eliminating the need for client-side plug-ins, applets, and software installation and maintenance. With AJAX, you can build interactive web applications faster and easier while keeping IT costs down.
Xignite recently partnered with TIBCO to develop a feature rich Web-based mashup application that demonstrates the power of reusing AJAX components and Web services to allow organizations to quickly and easily develop and deploy composite applications. The integrated solution combines TIBCO’s AJAX and Rich Internet Application (RIAs) development framework – TIBCO General Interface – with Xignite’s financial Web services.
The demo, available at tibco.xignite.com, illustrates how for example a day trader could quickly mine through a myriad of securities data to create extensive investment watch list, and view timely news and price charts with drag and drop ease. In addition, it allows users to research securities based on fundamental criteria and characteristics through a single, feature-rich Web page that loads in seconds, but has the look and feel of a desktop application.
In a joint press release, Ram Menon, executive VP of Worldwide Marketing at TIBCO, said, “The collaboration demonstrates a viable approach for dramatically simplifying and accelerating the adoption and use of AJAX and SOA technologies. It is also a perfect example of how we continue to afford businesses the opportunity to see greater efficiencies, cost savings and productivity in real-time.”
Stephane Dubois, CEO of Xignite, also emphasized the benefits of the integrated solution in his comments, “By combining the power and breadth of our Web services with the client functionality of TIBCO General Interface, businesses no longer have to labor over building custom applications from scratch, but can reuse existing components to save time and money.”
To experience and learn more about how you can use AJAX, RIA, and financial web services to quickly deploy composite feature rich web-based applications, please visit: http://tibco.xignite.com.
For questions and comments, please write to Xignite at ondemand@xignite.com |
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ProfitStars improves loan pricing effectiveness for over 400 financial institutions with Xignite’s interest rate web services
ProfitStars, a division of Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ: JKHY), is a leading provider of products and services designed to improve the operating performance of financial institutions. The ProfitStars’ Margin Maximizer Suite provides a loan and deposit pricing solution which helps financial institutions enhance their pricing strategies and profitability. Currently, over 400 financial institutions in the U.S. have deployed the Margin Maximizer Suite in their pricing operations. Since many of the ProfitStars clients are community banks and credit unions who belong to the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) system, they are able to source low-cost funds from their regional FHLBanks in order to promote and support community development and businesses.
It is critical for these financial institutions to obtain accurate daily data on their costs of funds in order to price the various loan products and to achieve the targeted return on equity for each product type. The cost of funds are usually based on key interest rates such as prime rate, LIBOR, treasury yields, and a matrix of cost of fund indices published by the regional FHLBanks. So it is crucial for the financial institutions to get updated interest rates from their pricing software so that they can effectively price their loans for different terms, structures and customer needs.
ProfitStars’ clients previously used a manually intensive process to enter interest rates into their pricing systems. This process was time consuming, prone to errors, and could adversely affect the profitability of the banks. In 2005, ProfitStars decided to add more value to its pricing solutions by automating the process of updating daily interest rates. ProfitStars decided upfront to provide interest rates to its clients via web service, a technology that it could easily integrate in its .NET applications. ProfitStars approached Xignite and requested we added advance rates published by the 11 US regional FHLBanks to our already extensive list of interest rates available on XigniteRates. ProfitStars also evaluated the option of web-scraping interest rates on its own. But it decided against this option due to the cost-effectiveness of Xignite’s solution and the potential distractions from its core business due to maintenance work.
With XigniteRates, ProfitStars clients now have instant access to up-to-date interest rates, including FHLBank advance rates, integrated into their pricing software. For ProfitStars, the benefits of using Xignite’s easy to deploy and integrate-able web services clearly outweighed the development and maintenance costs of providing the data on its own. |
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New Products
Looking for earning and sales estimates and analysts recommendations for your application?
Xignite partnered with Zacks Investment Research to bring you two new equity products,
XigniteEstimates
and XigniteAnalysts.
These new products put hundreds of new research fields at your fingertip: company’s sales and
earnings estimates, analysts’ consensus estimates and recommendations, industry estimates for
comparison purposes, and many more. The services also provide you with the ability to automatically
retrieve this information using report templates you define. This lets you quickly deploy the
data you need in your applications quickly and easily. You can customize these report templates
to suit your specific business needs.
- XigniteEstimates provides comprehensive data on company’s sales and earnings forecast. This new product also includes analysts’ consensus estimates and revision trends, historical earnings surprises, estimated sales and earnings growth and price-earnings multiples, industry and sector earnings estimates, and more all through easily integrate-able web services.
- XigniteAnalysts provides detailed information on analysts’ ratings and recommendations, number of brokers with ratings, consensus recommendations and revision trends, and more.
Stay tuned for the next newsletter, there are many more upcoming services. If there is anything else you need that you don’t find on our website, don’t hesitate to email us. What you tell us helps us identify and prioritize new developments. |
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Did you know that you could easily add moving average times series to your existing historical charts? Nothing could be easier to do.
For instance, the following VB.NET code:
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Dim objChartService As New RemoteChart.XigniteChart()
Dim objChart As Xignite.
WebServices.HistoricalChart = objChartService.
DrawHistoricalChartPresetByDate
(“GOOG”, Symbol, "", “4/26/2006”,”4/25/2007” ,
Line, 200, 150,”NewsLetter”)
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Will return the following picture:
By simply adding #SMA50 and #SMA200 as additional symbols to the request, we get the 2 moving averages we are looking for:
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Dim objChart As Xignite.WebServices.
HistoricalChart = objChartService.
DrawHistoricalChartPresetByDate
(“GOOG”, Symbol, "#SMA200,#SMA50", “4/26/2006”,”4/25/2007” , Line, 200, 150,”NewsLetter”)
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It’s that easy.
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Software 2007, “Powered by Innovation”
May 8 -9, 2007
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California
SOA Executive Forum -- Proven solutions for enterprise agility
May 15-16, 2007
Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York
Open Source Business Conference
May 22-23, 2007
The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA
SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2007
June 25-27, 2007
Roosevelt Hotel in New York City |
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Web services will rule the
world in the near future. It will be an
exhilarating experience to be an integral part of it.
If you are a master of your own trade,
looking for an early startup to sweat into an
apparent overnight success, Xignite is for you! We
are a small but thriving company full of
smart and motivated people. We work hard and are
passionate about changing the life of our clients
and making the delivery of web services the
business model of the future.
For more
information on Careers at Xignite click
here.
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