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David Welling: We are being careful not to tackle too many 'integration' projects out of the gate.

Update on Black Diamond-Advent merger

The sales teams are staying separate but sharing training this week

July 20, 2011 at 3:07 PM

Rob Fiore: We're finding there's a tremendous amount of activity right now in the RIA space compared to family office and private banks.

Private Client Resources is a software darling of private banks but can it conquer RIAs?

The Connecticut firm has experience and technology and a new CEO sees a swelling pipeline of RIAs

July 15, 2011 at 3:02 PM

Jim Lumberg: Our ambition is to become the leading provider of aggregation performance reporting and billing solutions in the marketplace, and we’re investing accordingly.

Envestnet unbundles portfolio management software for RIAs and it won't be a sideshow

The Chicago firm serves 19,000 TAMP clients with technology, now it wants to take on Advent/Black Diamond

July 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM

Mary Hepler: Before 2008 the company was struggling along. The software was good, but it’s not what it is today.

Turnaround artist has almost completed her revamp of Cornerstone Revolutions

Mary Hepler was hired on behalf of an unidentified private equity group to catch up to Advent, Tamarac, and PortfolioCenter in features and tech

July 1, 2011 at 5:59 AM

Sunit Bhalla: I can log into my bank in seven keystrokes.

How one RIA is running his practice on a Mac and finding it totally doable

Sunit Bhalla is taking full advantage of Apple to make sure he stays a one-man shop

June 29, 2011 at 3:06 PM

Dave Welling may play a pivotal role in whether Advent's Black Diamond acquisition makes the combined entity more like the Google or Microsoft of portfolio management systems.

Five recent articles that show the RIA business just keeps hitting milestones

Advent buys Black Diamond, Carson goes RIA, Duran champions consolidation, Schwab goes full-out into franchises, Brightscope grades RIAs

June 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM

Erika Donalds: Axys does not have any kind of login or audit trail, so you couldn't assign users; you couldn't limit what different users could see or do in the system. That was too much of a risk.

What one big RIA has to say about its switch from Advent Axys to Advent Portfolio Exchange

It's a night-and-day improvement in terms of the two products' functionality and the conversion process to APX was fine, if lengthy

June 15, 2011 at 2:49 PM

Steve Van de Wetering: Doing it way before you even buy APX gives you a big window of opportunity to fix it.

How one company is making money by making Advent Axys data portable

Empaxis outsources to India and some of its customers use the service before they choose to switch providers

June 15, 2011 at 2:48 PM

Benjamin Baldwin: I did my August monthly statements for my clients, had them up on the website by the first week of the month, and they were already completely out of date!

One RIA's unvarnished views on Advent, Black Diamond, Tamarac, IAS, Orion and Schwab PortfolioCenter after an odyssey of test drives

Benjamin Baldwin is making the jump from PortfolioCenter to Orion after a brief affair, and lingering love, for Black Diamond

June 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM

Darren Tedesco: We said: let’s pay a little more and get exactly what we want and control our own destiny.

Commonwealth's revamp of technology includes subtracting Advent

The big IBD wasn't impressed with the value presented by third-party performance reporting companies

June 1, 2011 at 2:36 PM

Rob Major: If you have 200 reports that do everything but cook you breakfast in the morning, you have a system that is unaffordable for 80% of the advisors that are out there.

After tortoise-like beginnings, AssetBook is now on-the-hop in portfolio management software

Rob Major takes what he learned in building Techfi to make AssetBook a functional, no-frills system

May 25, 2011 at 1:51 PM

Charles Goldman made sure that Advent had its talking points ready.

A blessing from Charles Goldman helped seal the Advent-Black Diamond deal

Executives were ready to pull the trigger but wanted reassurances about how elements of the RIA market would react

May 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM

Peter Hess: Black Diamond had emerged as the pre-eminent player in [the RIA] space.

Why Advent and Black Diamond are merging and how advisors look at the deal

The rival software makers hit it off after their top execs had a February phone call

May 13, 2011 at 2:27 PM

Reed Colley is selling his firm for more than three times what Techfi received in a similar deal

Advent to buy Black Diamond for $73 million

The big San Francisco provider will purchase one of its scrappiest competitors

May 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM

Redtail's Brian McLaughlin: Are we on the same page, and are we ready to go with the ability to open a new account through Redtail?

TD Ameritrade brings software elite to Dallas for an API summit

The number three custodian its letting its technology partners put the final touches on a low-walled garden

April 26, 2011 at 2:49 PM

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