First Rate® Yields Golden Automation Harvest with BPA - Continuous Process Improvement Realized

by Gary Bishop, in Success Story, posted 9/8/10
image for article First Rate® embodies what being a Texan is all about. Texan Lyle Lovett once famously crooned, "That's Right (You're Not from Texas)" and the tourism board of the Lone Star State picked that up as a sort of anthem suggesting rampant Texas-sized envy of all that is Texas. But, really, being Texan means exceeding expectations, often against overwhelming odds (kinda what oil wildcatting is all about), by applying a firm belief in your own abilities (with perhaps a little help from providence) and a lot of elbow grease. It's a well-know Texan Axiom that you gotta drill a lotta wells to strike paydirt (or is that pay-reservoir)?

First Rate has been exceeding its clients expectations, like those typical from demanding global investment banks and high-pressure bulge-bracket financial institutions, since its inception in 1991. First Rate's customers' clients, in turn, being beneficiaries of wealth management services, have exceedingly high expectations themselves. The result is a pressure-squared expectation to report timely, accurately and within acceptable cost margins, real-time performance of global investments.

In keeping with the idea of meeting those expectations within the ever-present limited resources scenario, First Rate began implementing automation with AutoMate BPA Server 7 in January 2010. As of the end of August 2010, well over 100 automation workflows have been developed to seemlessly drill for investment data from Internet sites, private FTP clouds, government data-banks and many other sources to deliver all the data required by First Rate's sophisticated, comprehensive reporting engines.

For more information, see the recent press release and Network World's report.