Latest opinions that James Wooster has shared on Finextra

Join the Community

23,146

Expert opinions

43,755

Total members

364

New members (last 30 days)

172

New opinions (last 30 days)

29,033

Total comments

Join Sign in

James Wooster

COO

Glue42

Member since

16 Jul 2018

Location

London

View James Wooster's full profile

James's opinions

Weighing your options: Desktop Integration Platforms in Use

In the prior two blogs of this series, we had introduced the fragmented desktop, and outlined the advantages of using a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) to solve the problem. In this blog, we look at emerging standards in Desktop Integration and how vendor solutions provide advantages over homegrown solutions. We round out the conversation wit...

15 April 2021 /wealth /devops Capital Markets Technology

Unifying the Desktop

In our prior blog, we had introduced desktop fragmentation, the problems posed by it, and how a Desktop Integration Platform (DIP) can solve them. In this blog we delve further into the architecture and structure of DIPs. Providing a seamless user experience to end-users such as traders, analysts, data scientists, etc. has long been a challenge ow...

13 April 2021 /wealth /devops Capital Markets Technology

The Fragmented Desktop

Regardless of whether you are a trader or a portfolio manager, the user journey in Financial Services is, to date, a tale of disparate technologies, inconsistent ergonomics, and poorly optimized workflows. Financial institutions constantly innovate and introduce new applications, thus placing a significant cognitive demand on the end user. While a...

08 April 2021 /wealth /devops Innovation in Financial Services

Why I Moved to the Dark Side

I’ve spent most of my career working in or running software integration businesses. It began with object brokers, then middleware, then ESBs and subsequently included all manner of adjacent technologies including event processing, process modelling and process mining. New application architectures were developed to exploit this infrastructure, ena...

17 September 2018 /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Does RPA fit into your processes?

I’ve had an epiphany. Sadly, it’s about IT stuff – but I thought I would share it anyway! More specifically, it’s about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and when to use it. As you will see below, scenarios which appear to be good candidates for RPA could turn into very costly mistakes. Anyone who’s spent time in contact centres or shared-service ...

01 August 2018 /devops Digital Insurance Trends

Community