Audit Risk Management Process: There are a small number of technology decisions that can truly define the future for a financial services company — the business possibilities and performance going forward. The introduction of Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based systems presents one of those opportunities.

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A Foundational Choice with Impact Far Beyond the Data Center and Well into the Future

Your business, your customers and your competitors don’t stand still. Neither does technology. It is constantly advancing and improving, presenting new benefits and new possibilities across industries.

At the same time, the variety and complexity of technologies make it essential that you choose them carefully in order to ensure that your business’s flexibility is maximized while the risks and costs are minimized.

And because your information technology is central to all business operations, your organization’s future hangs in the balance. In financial markets where milliseconds mean millions of dollars and the competition for customers is exploding, your information technology can determine how well you keep pace, reduce costs, increase returns on assets, enhance productivity, strengthen customer relationships and respond to competitive challenges.

Decisions that Define Your Future

There are a small number of technology decisions that can truly define the future for a financial services company — the business possibilities and performance going forward. The introduction of Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems presents one of those opportunities.

Far more than just “fast servers,� a technology infrastructure built on Dual-Core Intel Xeon platforms improves your return on IT assets while enabling entirely new business possibilities. Based on the advanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture with dual cores and a wide dynamic execution engine, these servers comprise a powerful, flexible, cost-effective fabric that not only delivers value in the data center, but forms a powerful pivot around which you gain new business advantages by doing things you couldn’t do before:

• Reach customers in new ways while strengthening relationships
• Accelerate trading solutions
• Gain faster and deeper insights into risk positions and portfolios
• Know sooner, decide better and act faster in the most complex, fast-paced environments
• Increase the productivity of your people and your information assets
• Manage rising volumes of customer, market and compliance data

In short, the business capabilities and innovations enabled by a Dual-Core Xeon processor-based infrastructure can make your company leaner, more agile and more competitive.

An infrastructure based on Intel’s new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based systems is fundamentally advanced, combining multiple synergistic capabilities. And it’s based on industry standards, connecting you to the largest network of hardware, software and solution providers — maximizing your choices, driving your costs down and giving you access to constant innovation and advances.

Financial services companies like yours are capitalizing on these advantages now — the question is, will you?

Intel continues to build more capabilities into platforms so you can do much more. With Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based platforms, we combine effective technologies, software services and industry alliances that optimize your infrastructure to deliver more business performance with greater efficiency and lower cost.