Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. Goes Live with SunGards Protegent for Social Media and Website Surveillance

Marion, IA (PRWEB) December 11, 2012

Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. (Berthel Fisher), a brokerdealer founded and headquartered in Iowa since 1985, has gone live with SunGards Protegent Social Media Surveillance for regulatory compliance and monitoring of its advisors online activity.

Financial firms use of social networking sites to promote their businesses can present significant risks if the content violates internal communication and regulatory policies. SunGards Protegent Social Media Surveillance helps firms archive, monitor, report and filter content posted on social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help alleviate this risk.

Vicki Reighard-Kean, chief compliance officer at Berthel Fisher, said, SunGards strong track record in compliance solutions, as well as its ability to offer surveillance for both social media and websites, gives us confidence that we will be able to comply with the latest regulations.

Steve Sabin, chief operating officer of SunGards Protegent business unit, said, Advisors need to be able to reach their clients wherever they are, including on social networks and the web. SunGards Protegent provides tools to help broker dealers participate in those sites without creating regulatory and reputational risks.

About Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc.

Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. (BFCFS), headquartered in Marion, Iowa, is a pioneer in the independent broker/dealer industry. BFCFS offers investment banking services and a full-range of investment products and investment advisory services to investors, as well as a complete line of insurance, banking, and lending services in all 50 states through 385 Representative offices. Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Berthel Fisher & Company, a financial holding company. Berthel Fisher & Company owns Securities Management and Research, Inc. (SM&R) a broker/dealer with 300 Representatives as well as BFC Planning, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor.

For more information about Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. visit http://www.berthel.com.

About SunGards Protegent

SunGard’s Protegent is a suite of solutions that help automate financial institutions compliance processes. It helps give financial institutions transparency into their data while helping them to enforce and document their compliance policies and procedures. Protegents solutions cover social media review, personal trading oversight, market abuse, Reg NMS, Order Audit Trail System (OATS), and transaction supervision and surveillance review. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com/protegent.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the worlds leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and is ranked 480 on the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

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Berthel Fisher & Company Financial Services, Inc. Goes Live with SunGards Protegent for Social Media and Website Surveillance

Bridgetown, Barbados (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 The new mobile calendar for things to do in Barbados, WhatsOnInBarbados.com, is not just another calendar. It is designed for the future of mobile travel and solves one of the biggest issues in design and accessibility for the diverse range of devices and platforms for mobile. The problem is that there are hundreds of mobile devices and operating systems. Building native Calendar apps (for an iPhone or an Android app etc) is not always the smartest way to go, as the cost of development and maintenance for all devices is unsustainable for a small team. A web based Calendar is, on the other hand, universally accessible without having to download apps, which can be irritating for travelers who just want to get the news on things to do, now. Websites for mobile, however, are often too general and do not take advantage of the special features and resources of the different platforms and devices. The solution is a smart web based platform that responds and configures itself to the device in an intelligent way. In this solution, the software not only reconfigures the information and graphics for each specific device it also accesses and uses native features like the date picker built into the device, just as a native app would. Kathy-Lynn Ward, COO of AXSES (the company behind the BTE) and developer of a range of tourism technology including several other travel apps, says “Using HTML5 and the jQuery has helped us build a smart Calendar platform that can now be tweaked to work with every device with relative modest effort.” What that means is that as new devices come out and old ones change, the smart system simply adapts to them. “It is a hybrid of the native app, like iPhone or Android apps, and a website approach”. says Ward. “The difference is that we program the information about events to display differently for each device and even for each orientation in a device.” It is a lot of work upfront but will save a lifetime of work in the future. It is in fact built for the future! WOIB is the most widely used and most complete calendar of things to do in Barbados. THE BTE website, Barbados.org, is also the most extensive website of Barbados tourism and the most popular according to the Alexa competitive rank. The BTE calendar has been a feature from early days starting in 1996. it has thousands of users and subscribers and a database of numerous attractions, activities, contacts and venues. The BTE has built a grass roots network with all media, tv, newspapers, hotels, local performers, restaurants, bands, tourism operators, museums, universities, theaters and locals who feed in details of vacation happenings on a daily basis. Much of the work in monitoring and creating the venues is automated and all of it is checked and approved in house. The release of this app reflects Whats On In Barbados commitment to promoting the many events happening on the island to both locals and visitors. An increasing number of people are using the Whats On In Barbados platform (including the website, social media posts, Facebook app and weekly newsletter) to keep up with things to do on the island. The newsletter reach is currently 16,000 subscribers. For January to November 2012, there were 400,000 referrals from the Whats On website to view event descriptions, and an additional 25,000 clicks from social media posts. With more people now having access to mobile phones than water and electricity, and more and more using mobiles while on holiday or to plan holidays from home, every tourism operator, hotel and destination absolutely MUST have a mobile app. For more on Barbados Tourism Encyclopedia go to http://www.barbados.org Website Calendar of things to do on island Mobile app of Barbados Events Video on YouTube More Automated Network Monitoring Press Releases Events Calendar of Things to Do In Barbados Goes Mobile for the Booming Market of Mobile Travelers using Smartphones to Plan Holidays at Home and on Location

Bridgetown, Barbados (PRWEB) December 21, 2012

The new mobile calendar for things to do in Barbados, WhatsOnInBarbados.com, is not just another calendar. It is designed for the future of mobile travel and solves one of the biggest issues in design and accessibility for the diverse range of devices and platforms for mobile.

The problem is that there are hundreds of mobile devices and operating systems. Building native Calendar apps (for an iPhone or an Android app etc) is not always the smartest way to go, as the cost of development and maintenance for all devices is unsustainable for a small team.

A web based Calendar is, on the other hand, universally accessible without having to download apps, which can be irritating for travelers who just want to get the news on things to do, now. Websites for mobile, however, are often too general and do not take advantage of the special features and resources of the different platforms and devices.

The solution is a smart web based platform that responds and configures itself to the device in an intelligent way. In this solution, the software not only reconfigures the information and graphics for each specific device it also accesses and uses native features like the date picker built into the device, just as a native app would.

Kathy-Lynn Ward, COO of AXSES (the company behind the BTE) and developer of a range of tourism technology including several other travel apps, says “Using HTML5 and the jQuery has helped us build a smart Calendar platform that can now be tweaked to work with every device with relative modest effort.”

What that means is that as new devices come out and old ones change, the smart system simply adapts to them. “It is a hybrid of the native app, like iPhone or Android apps, and a website approach”. says Ward. “The difference is that we program the information about events to display differently for each device and even for each orientation in a device.” It is a lot of work upfront but will save a lifetime of work in the future. It is in fact built for the future!

WOIB is the most widely used and most complete calendar of things to do in Barbados. THE BTE website, Barbados.org, is also the most extensive website of Barbados tourism and the most popular according to the Alexa competitive rank.

The BTE calendar has been a feature from early days starting in 1996. it has thousands of users and subscribers and a database of numerous attractions, activities, contacts and venues. The BTE has built a grass roots network with all media, tv, newspapers, hotels, local performers, restaurants, bands, tourism operators, museums, universities, theaters and locals who feed in details of vacation happenings on a daily basis. Much of the work in monitoring and creating the venues is automated and all of it is checked and approved in house.

The release of this app reflects Whats On In Barbados commitment to promoting the many events happening on the island to both locals and visitors. An increasing number of people are using the Whats On In Barbados platform (including the website, social media posts, Facebook app and weekly newsletter) to keep up with things to do on the island. The newsletter reach is currently 16,000 subscribers. For January to November 2012, there were 400,000 referrals from the Whats On website to view event descriptions, and an additional 25,000 clicks from social media posts.

With more people now having access to mobile phones than water and electricity, and more and more using mobiles while on holiday or to plan holidays from home, every tourism operator, hotel and destination absolutely MUST have a mobile app.

For more on Barbados Tourism Encyclopedia go to http://www.barbados.org

Website Calendar of things to do on island

Mobile app of Barbados Events

Video on YouTube

More Automated Network Monitoring Press Releases

Events Calendar of Things to Do In Barbados Goes Mobile for the Booming Market of Mobile Travelers using Smartphones to Plan Holidays at Home and on Location