Attivio Appoints Julio Gomez as GM of Financial Services

NEWTON, Mass., Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Facing the financial services industry's most lucrative opportunities and challenging obstacles depends on integrating, correlating and analyzing the vast amounts of content and data collected from every corner of the enterprise and beyond, including customer, investment, regulatory and market information. To better help its banking, insurance, credit and investment customers address these challenges, Attivio has named technology innovator Julio Gomez as General Manager of Financial Services.

A respected voice in the industry, Gomez brings two decades of experience advising financial institutions on transformative change and implementing innovative approaches to mission critical IT, product development and best practices initiatives. In this new role, Gomez will work with the top global financial institutions to shape Attivio's technology solutions, extending the company's rapidly growing customer base and developing new ways for financial organizations to realize greater return on their information assets.

Internationally recognized for financial services technology, marketing and e-commerce expertise, Gomez is a trusted advisor to business leaders and was ranked in Time Magazine's "Fifty Most Important People Shaping Technology" and Institutional Investor's "Fifty Most Influential People on Wall Street". He is widely known as the founder of Gomez, Inc. (f.k.a. Gomez Advisors), the ecommerce benchmarking and performance monitoring service. He has served in leadership roles as a co-founder of Innovation Councils, global head of research for IDC Financial Insights, and senior analyst with Forrester Research.

Globally, financial institutions are grappling with big data, complex architectures and unstructured data analytics across the enterprise. Implicit in these challenges is the time and cost impact on IT initiatives where managing data efficiently is paramount to achieving stated goals and ROI, but rarely achieved with solutions offered by legacy vendors. Attivio offers organizations the ability to cohesively integrate, correlate, access and analyze all types of enterprise content and data. Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine® (AIE®) brings the power of unified information access to a broad range of initiatives such as improving customer satisfaction, enhancing sales enablement, managing regulatory compliance, improving call center and help desk KPIs and taking advanced analytics to the next level.

"The importance of unified information access is becoming increasingly apparent to financial services organizations, most critically where it affects customer interactions, investment performance and risk mitigation," said Ali Riaz, CEO of Attivio. "Julio brings an unequaled depth of experience to our conversations and implementations in this critical sector, which will facilitate a greater impact on the opportunities and challenges our customers face."

Commenting on his new role, Gomez remarked, "Having experienced the challenges of capturing, managing and deriving insight and value from the varied forms of enterprise data, I could not be more excited to play a key role in expanding Attivio's presence in the market. Financial institutions crave elegant solutions to prickly data problems that come up in every major initiative, from cloud computing, to big data to customer experience management. Attivio offers the level of sophistication and flexibility necessary for the highly complex, demanding and large-scale data environments in this industry."

About Attivio
Attivio's unified information access platform, the Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE), redefines the business impact of our customers' information assets, so they can quickly seize opportunities, solve critical challenges and fulfill their strategic vision. 

Attivio integrates and correlates disparate silos of structured data and unstructured content in ways never before possible.  Offering both intuitive search capabilities and the power of SQL, AIE seamlessly integrates with existing BI and big data tools to reveal insight that matters, through the access method that best suits each user's technical skills and priorities. Please visit us at www.attivio.com.

Attivio and Active Intelligence Engine are trademarks of Attivio, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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