HP hosts First Annual Finance Sector Conference

HP Middle East is hosting this week its First Annual Finance Sector Conference in Dubai, where industry experts from both finance and IT sectors will discuss the merits of running IT departments as a business.

Delegates from financial institutions are set to hear from senior representatives from HP and partners, including Gartner, as to how operating their IT systems like a business will improve business performance while automating systems leads to lower cost, reduced risk and faster deployment times, in addition to obtaining real-time control over their environment.

“IT executives of financial services firms face a tough task in balancing a number of objectives, from maximizing return, mitigating risk and improving performance this has to be achieved in a constantly evolving environment too,” said TayfunTopkoc, Regional Director HP Software, HP Middle East. “At HP we recognize these challenges IT chiefs in the financial industry face, and by hosting the First Annual Finance Sector Conference we’ll highlight the range of solutions available to achieve this balance and tackle many of the hurdles encountered by IT executives.”

With a strong focus on IT best practice to help meet targets and aims, delegates will discover how their IT organization can build faster, operate simpler, store information more effectively and securely, monitor risks more completely and execute systematically.

In such a rapidly changing IT landscape, there is a need for putting the latest technologies into contextwhich HalilAksu, a consultant from Gartner, will discussin his session. With analysis on how trends such as cloud computing, mobile, social and information go beyond impact on just technology,Aksu will highlight how they are changing whole industries, economies, governments, societies and human behaviour. He will look at how this is not the final conclusion and that there is yet more to come that will directly affect how the finance sector utilizes its IT infrastructure.

Additionally, delegates will hear case studies from IT executives involved in implementing software solutions in the banking sector.

HP provides project and portfolio management solutions to better align IT with business making sure that proper governance is in place.

HP software provides quality, performance and security testing solutions to make sure that core banking applications run based on business requirement more efficiently and meeting customer requirements.

The First Annual HP Finance Sector Conference takes place at Atlantis Hotel, Dubai, on May Monday 21^st from 9am to 5pm.