Now I know how the Wright Brothers felt when they found out about Langley
and Bell...
;-).
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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From MecklerMedia's http:/www.internetnews.com
E-Transaction Lab for Financial Firms Opens in NYC
[October 1] New York City-based Transaction Information Systems (TIS),
an integration and information technology consulting company, opened
FLITE http://www.flitelab.com, an open software factory dedicated to
building electronic commerce solutions for the financial industry.
In addition to TIS, the founder of FLITE, there are approximately 20
member firms, including Digital Equipment Corp., ad agency Foote, Cone
and Belding, IBM, Lotus Development Corp., Reuters, Sybase, and Visa.
FLITE is physically located in the former home of the historic New
York Lawyers' Club at 115 Broadway in downtown Manhattan. FLITE allows
sales, marketing, and information technology executives to interact
with a variety of online trading systems, 401(k) management products,
three-dimensional visualizations of financial data, and other
electronic commerce and interactive customer service solutions.
"This one-of-a-kind software factory enables financial institutions to
increase sales and market reach via the rapid deployment of their
financial products through multiple distribution vehicles, including
the Internet, kiosks, display cellular phones and TV sets," said Bob
Gold, President of TIS.
"In one place, they can experience and visualize more electronic
commerce and customer service applications for the financial industry
than anywhere else. FLITE's design process and electronic commerce
tools allow us to roll out transactional Web sites in half the time
and at half the cost of the industry average."
FLITE is a working lab that financial institutions can use to produce
innovative products. Marketing/sales executives use the facility to
learn to think interactively and develop Internet strategies, build
product prototypes rapidly and conduct focus groups.
Technology staffs can use the facility for jointly developing
interactive products with FLITE engineers, use FLITE's specialty rooms
(user interface optimization, 3-D visualization and quality assurance
testing), and get hands-on training and knowledge transfer.
As a factory, FLITE has specialized machinery and tools for building
transactional Web sites and delivering products through interactive
distribution channels, TIS said. FLITE has a variety of hardware
servers, workstations, laptops, kiosks, televisions, display phones,
touchscreen monitors, and financial trading equipment.
"FLITE combines the promise of new technology with the city's
financial heritage," said Gold. "Unlike other companies who have put
research and development facilities in the suburbs, TIS believes that
its downtown location in the heart of Wall Street attracts the top
talent in the industry and makes it accessible to financial industry
executives."
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Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox
e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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