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21 May. Automated Data Flow In this latest issue of Banking Frontiers, three senior bankers share their views on implementing the Automated Data Flow (a straight-through process), suggested by RBI. RBI wants banks to achieve a ‘common end state’ (the state of complete automation for submission of the returns without any manual intervention). iCreate’s Biz$core ADF being one of the most comprehensive and preferred solution, gets mentioned in this cover story. Read more. |
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09 May. Banking On Analytics India’s largest circulating English daily, The Times of India, speaks to iCreate’s founders Anup Pai and Naren NS on the idea that led to the creation of iCreate. This interesting feature touches upon the journey so far and the key elements that differentiate iCreate from some of the big names in the Industry. Read more. |
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30 Apr 2012. BI out of the box In this interview with a leading Banking Technology portal BankTech India, Vivek Subramanyam, CEO iCreate says, “The traditional approach to developing and deploying business intelligence is far too complex an exercise for most banks”. Read more. |
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02 Apr 2012. Indonesia's largest bank, Bank Mandiri selects Banking Business Intelligence specialist iCreate for Strategic Analytics Consulting Indonesia's largest bank, Bank Mandiri announced the appointment of leading technology solution provider Bina Indonusa System and Banking Business Intelligence specialist iCreate Software for Business Intelligence-enabling the bank's Micro and Retail Banking. This strategic project entails Consulting, Analytics, Software Development and Reporting Automation spanning Bank Mandiri's 3 key functions. Read more. |
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29 Mar 2012. iCreate to showcase banking BI product Biz$core's Decision Enablement and GRC capability at MEFTEC AMEinfo, Middle East’s leading business resource, covered iCreate’s decision to sponsor MEFTEC 2012. This is the third consecutive year that iCreate will be participating at MEFTEC. This time around iCreate will be showcasing its flagship product Biz$core's Decision Enablement and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) capabilities under the theme, 'Future Banking' and demonstrate how future banking begins with establishing a robust Decision Enablement System that works in the present and thinks in the future. Read more. |
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13 Mar 2012. iCreate and Actian To Deliver Superior Analytics for Global Banking Industry iCreate and Actian Corporation have entered into a partnership to jointly deliver superior analytical capability to the global banking industry. The partnership with Actian marks the amalgamation of synergies of the two leaders; iCreate with its acclaimed Banking BI product - Biz$core; and Actian with its revolutionary analytics database platform - Vectorwise. As a result of this partnership, banks globally can expect remarkably faster delivery of business-critical BI and Analytics at a remarkably lower TCO. Read more. |
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03 Feb 2012. iCreate sees strong traction for BI in the banking sector The complex nature, intelligence needs and regulatory compliance issues of the banking business has amplified the need for BI in banks. Vivek Subramanyam, CEO, iCreate shares his thoughts with InformationWeek on the adoption of pre-packaged Business Intelligence solutions by banks, iCreate’s contribution and the road ahead. Read more. |
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15 Jan 2012. iCreate in Fortune India iCreate gets featured in a unique cover story on the nation’s ‘Under 40s’ entrepreneurs. The article touches upon iCreate’s journey in the pre-packaged Business Intelligence, Analytics, Reporting and Performance Management solutions space. Read more. |
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02 Jan 2012. EastWest Bank takes iCreate's Biz$core for Enterprise BI and Analytics EastWest Bank, one of the fastest-growing banks in the Philippines has selected iCreate's Banking Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics solution - Biz$core, as the main platform to manage its dynamic and evolving information needs. Biz$core will 'BI-enable' all of EastWest's key functional areas namely Retail Banking, Consumer Lending, Branch Banking, Financial Analysis as well as a tool to help senior executives in business performance monitoring. Read more in The Asian Banker and IBS Intelligence. |
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28 Nov 2011. Ghana International Bank selects iCreate's Biz$core for Enterprise BI and Analytics Ghana International Bank (GHIB) has selected iCreate's pre-built Business Intelligence (BI) & Analytics solution - Biz$core, as a central component of their information management ecosystem. With Biz$core, GHIB primarily expects to address the reporting and analytical requirements, general management information requirements and the reporting needs of the Bank. Biz$core's capability to extract information from multiple source systems will also enable a single view of GHIB's customers. Read more. |
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28 Nov 2011. Hexaware partners with iCreate to establish Biz$core Banking BI Centre of Excellence Hexaware Technologies Limited, a leading global provider of IT, BPO and Consulting services, has recently entered into a strategic alliance with iCreate to build a Centre of Excellence (CoE) to enhance iCreate's flagship Banking BI product, Biz$core. This strategic partnership will allow iCreate to leverage Hexaware's Banking micro-vertical & BI capabilities, its global reach and its impressive client roster to jointly address the market for prebuilt BI and Analytics solutions for the Banking sector. Read more. |
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03 Nov 2011. Technology trends in India's banking sector This recent RCR Wireless article focuses on technology trends in India's banking sector. Mobile banking, automated data flow, XBLR/iXBLR and social media are the few of the trends discussed. iCreate's Biz$core solution and its recent wins gets coverage in this piece with Naresh Kurup, Head- Marketing, iCreate sharing his views on the Biz$core RBI ADF solution. Read more. |
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12 Oct 2011. iCreate’s Biz$core Business Intelligence solution covered in Business Standard Business Standard in a recently published article covered RBI’s guidelines on automating data flow from various transactional systems of banks to RBI. The article mentions the visible trend of banks using third- party software to comply with the guidelines, within a specified period. The article covers iCreate’s Biz$core ADF solution in length and also mentions iCreate’s recent India centric wins, the article also has Vivek Subramanyam, CEO, iCreate’s quote’s wherein he stresses on iCreate’s focus on the Indian market. Read more. |
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10 Oct. 2011. BI software migration to give IndusInd Bank a leg up This SearchBI article covers the reasoning behind IndusInd Bank partnering with iCreate. From migrating its reporting software from Microsoft Sharepoint to iCreate’s Biz$core Business Intelligence, enabling automated data flow from the banks transactional systems to RBI, the article also covers other key areas in which iCreate will be helping IndusInd Bank. Read more. |
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01 Oct. 2011. HDFC & IndusInd Bank select iCreate The Compliance, Risk & Opportunity(CRO) Journal in its latest issue has a detailed feature on iCreate’s recent wins with HDFC & IndusInd Bank. In this article, CRO also interviews Harish Shetty, Executive Vice President, IT, HDFC and Paul Abraham, Chief Operating Officer, IndusInd Bank for their views on partnering with iCreate. The article also covers Amit Agarwal, SVP & BU Head for APAC & ME views on Biz$core and its future roadmap. Read more. |
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28 Sept. 2011. IndusInd Bank opts for Biz$core BI Banking Frontiers in this article talks about IndusInd banks selection of iCreate’s Biz$core Business Intelligence (BI) solution as a key component for its enterprise business intelligence strategy. With Biz$core’s Enterprise BI solution, the bank will have a fully functional BI solution with advanced coverage of all business units as well as manage regulatory reporting. Read more. |
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27 Sept 2011. Intelligent Banking SmartCEO in its latest issue speaks to Vivek Subramanyam, CEO, iCreate on iCreate’s proposition, vision, challenges and the opportunities landscape. The feature also covers Vivek’s views on the recent RBI guidelines mandating banks to automate their data flow and iCreate’s recent customer wins. Read more. |
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25 Sept. 2011. State of Indian Business Intelligence Business Intelligence software is becoming more feature loaded by the day. This issue of Express Computer evaluates the BI landscape, the choices before IT heads and the heated debates in this domain. The issue also feature’s views of Vivek Subramanyam, CEO iCreate. Read more. |
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19 Sept 2011. IndusInd Bank selects iCreate's Biz$core as an Enterprise BI Solution IndusInd Bank has selected iCreate’s Biz$core Business Intelligence (BI) solution as a key component of their enterprise Business Intelligence strategy. With Biz$core’s Enterprise BI solution, IndusInd Bank can now benefit from a fully functional BI solution with advanced coverage of all Business Units as well as manage Regulatory Reporting. IndusInd Bank made this choice for establishing a robust information management ecosystem with a quick implementation at a low total cost of ownership. Read more. |
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13 Sept 2011. HDFC Bank selects iCreate’s ADF Solution for RBI Reporting HDFC Bank has selected iCreate’s Biz$core Automated Data Flow (ADF) Solution as a key component of the bank’s Regulatory Compliance strategy. HDFC Bank sought a ready-to-deploy solution to help address RBI’s recent ADF compliance directive by enabling a straight-through processing of data directly from the bank to RBI. After evaluating several prominent vendors for an enterprise-class RBI ADF solution, HDFC Bank chose iCreate’s Biz$core ADF. Read more. |
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02 Aug 2011 . Dhanlaxmi Bank Selects iCreate's Biz$core ADF Solution To Automate RBI Reporting Dhanlaxmi Bank announced the selection of iCreate’s Biz$core Automated Data Flow (ADF) Solution as a key component of their Regulatory Reporting / Compliance strategy. Dhanlaxmi Bank made this choice after evaluating several prominent vendors for an enterprise-class ADF solution that would not only automate the bank’s regulatory reporting in line with RBI’s guidelines, but also ensure data accuracy and integrity. Click here to read more. |
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01 July 2011. Touching the future This issue of Arabian Computer News delves into how cloud and virtualization technology are drastically changing the way that business approach enterprise software. Enterprise Software environment is in a transition face from a focus on cost, to a focus on value creation for the enterprise. Click here to read the article which features iCreate CEO Vivek Subramanyam’s views. |
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01 July 2011. iCreate launches Automated Regulatory Reporting solution for banks In this interview with Compliance, Risk & Opportunity, a leading journal focused on Compliance, Risk management and Technology, Vivek Subramanyam CEO iCreate talks about the Biz$core RBI ADF solution to banks. Biz$core’s ability to automate data flow from multiple banking systems directly into a Centralized Data Repository and then into the RBI report formats, technology platform used, time taken to implement are some of areas covered in this feature. Click here to read more. |
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27 Jun 2011. iCreate announces RBI guidelines-compliant Automated Data Flow (ADF) solution for banks With a view to ensuring accuracy and integrity of data flowing from the banking system to the regulator, RBI had recently released an approach paper on Automated Data Flow (ADF - a straight through process) from various transactional systems of the banks to RBI, to enhance data quality, ensure data integrity / accuracy and timely reporting. iCreate today announced its reporting solution Biz$core to enable banks to comply with RBI’s guidelines. Read more… |
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SearchBI: Establishing an effective BI CoE In this latest interview with Business Intelligence @ TechTarget, Naren shares insights on different phases involved in the creation of an effective BI CoE, guidelines on CoE creation, pitfalls to avoid, and future roadmap. Read the interview here. |
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NASSCOM: Banking on Africa The latest issue of NASSCOM’s Emerge Newsletter examines the main contours of doing business in the continent. Going beyond market trends, the issue also delves into the experiences of 2 companies that have explored Africa with success, one of them being iCreate. Click here to read the article. |
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SearchBI: Data warehousing best practices In this latest interview with SearchBusinessIntelligence.IN, Amit Agarwal, iCreate’s BU Head for APAC & MENA, shares insights on how applying some time-tested best practices can help build an efficient data warehouse. Read the 2-part interview here. |
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BizTech Africa: BI crucial for Kenyan banking BI technology is becoming increasingly important for Kenyan banks, as customers become more discerning and competition grows more intense. This emerged in a white paper released ahead of the AITEC Banking and Mobile Money COMESA, Nairobi, by Shailendra M, iCreate’sBU Head for Africa, Europe&Americas, who spoke at the event about how Kenyan banks can extract value from data residing in their systems. Read more. |
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Dataquest: Innovative BI and analytics to help start-ups compete with giants Dataquest India’s recent story highlights how start-ups are bringing breakthrough innovation to the table by focusing on providing core BI and analytics. Click here to read the article which features Vivek’s views. |
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BobsGuide: ‘Business Intelligence for Banking’ specialist opens office in India’s banking / financial hub iCreate Software, today opened up its latest office in ‘Platina’ at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai. The decision to opt for Mumbai is part of iCreate’s market expansion plans, with the aim to achieve closer proximity to the nation’s banking / financial markets. Read more. |
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Forbes: iCreate amongst 5 hot start-ups to watch’ iCreate Software has been mentioned as one of the ‘5 hot start-ups to watch’ in Forbes’ year-end issue. Click here to read the article. |
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CIO East Africa: Banking on Business Intelligence for banks Published in association with IDG, CIO East Africa is a leading publication targeting the East African ICT industry. In the Feb issue, Anup Pai (Founder, iCreate), shares his thoughts on the emerging importance of BI for the African banking industry.Click here to read the interview (on pages 26 and 27). |
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ET Now: iCreate featured in ‘Starting Up’ ET Now is an Indian business news channel, owned and operated by the Times Group. The news channel has a strategic partnership with Reuters and is produced in collaboration with The Economic Times, a leading financial daily in India. iCreate was recently featured on ‘Starting Up’, a program that profiles innovative companies in the Indian start-up ecosystem. Click here to view the coverage. |
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CIO India: BI boost for banks Instead of focusing on technology and tools, the focus of the BI business case should be on how it leads to impact customer satisfaction. Read the article here. |
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CIO India: Banking big on Business Intelligence From customer life cycle management to making sense of transactional data, BI and analytics can do a lot for banks. Click here to read Vivek’s viewpoint in CIO magazine. |
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CRO: Banking-specific Business Intelligence CRO is a well-read journal on compliance, risk management and technology published by Finsight Media, that is widely circulated and amongst private / public sector banks and other financial companies. The Nov 2010 issue featured an interview with Anup, where he articulated our ‘Banking-specific BI’ proposition and our future plans. |
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ACN: iCreate conducts BI for banking survey iCreate along with leading technology publication, ACN, undertook a comprehensive survey to understand the Middle East’s Business Intelligence landscape. Click here to read the findings. |
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IBS Journal: Case Study - National Bank of Kuwait BI solutions specialist, iCreate was chosen to help form and execute NBK’s BI strategy as it had knowledge and experience in core banking systems, as well as the BI aspects. Read more. |
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Mint: Profitability becoming key to early-stage funding Bangalore-based iCreate Software Pvt Ltd, a business intelligence company focused on banking products, recently raised Rs15 crore from VC investor IDG Ventures India. Read more. |
