Quantivate LLC signs credit unions

Quantivate LLC says it has signed five more credit unions as users of its vendor management software and services, says Credit Union Times.

Quantivate was founded in 2005 by disaster recovery and business continuity specialists who then formed CU Vendor in 2008 to add due diligence services from the Paragon Group and a compliance guaranty produced by the law firm of Farleigh Wada Witt.

The company says its customer list now includes about 100 credit unions as well as non-profit organisations including World Vision, public utilities agencies and Alaska Airlines.

Ecom Atlantic, an international commodity merchant, has selected SunGard's AvantGard solution for liquidity management, reports Benzinga.

Ecom will use AvantGard Echos globally, in conjunction with AvantGard Treasury, to help improve bank communication and connectivity, streamline treasury management and optimise visibility into cash and investments.

SunGard's AvantGard Echos will help Ecom improve connectivity to and control over its 46 different banking relationships. AvantGard Echos will provide a single point of connectivity from Ecom's internal systems to Echos, which offers embedded access to the Swift network.

IT research firm IDC's PC market review for September quarter notes that large enterprises have responded to improving global cues by ramping up IT infrastructure spends, resulting in improved traction, particularly for desktop PCs, states Business Line.

Incidentally, the IDC India quarterly PC tracker for Q3 calendar year 2010 ranks Dell in the number one spot for overall PC sales with an increased market share of 16.7%.

Vikas Bhonsle, general manager, India Large Enterprise operations, Dell India, believes that the industry is at an inflection point where virtualisation, mobility, cloud computing, storage requirements, digital home, personalisation, ubiquitous data access and security concerns are fundamentally changing the way people use technology.