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Franklin Tsung (with Tim Welsh to his right and Andy Wang to his left) : This puts the direct purchase option out of reach for the average advisor.

Salesforce rolls out giant product, pricing changes -- a virtual doubling for the direct-sold version that could price out some mainstream RIA practices

As part of a big revamping, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff will make CRM work on mobile but it may now cost twice as much for the comparable direct-sold product

November 21, 2013 at 3:38 AM

Under same management, but with a new logo,  Advent lowers the boom on its retired signage.

Advent unveils new logo at its annual San Francisco conference -- after discarding one that failed to elicit a sense of the progressive from RIAs

From signage to stationery to T-shirts to a new tech platform, Advent aims to move past its safe-as-houses reputation and up into the cloud

September 23, 2013 at 6:24 PM

Greg Friedman: Junxure Cloud will work for advisors customized for wealth management right from the start.

After years of making Junxure's future more 'cloud'-y, Friedman takes a big stage in Texas to explain

With Salesforce not even slowing to catch its breath, the RIA shows he can fight back in his own way

September 18, 2013 at 3:30 AM

Terence Hong: While Junxure’s lack of cloud integration was a source of criticism in the past ... the desktop application also benefited from relatively low cost, and performance was only bottlenecked by the user’s own hardware.

Friedman makes his case to Hong for why Junxure Cloud's doubling-plus of fees is worth that much more

True, it's looking spiffy in its Windows 8-style attire, solid in its Rackspace grounding and clued-in with its channeling of its inner RIA soul, but even Friedman is holding off on a conversion for his RIA, Private Ocean -- for now

June 18, 2013 at 5:34 AM

Jennifer Ingham: The B-D relationship is needed because in the RIA world of investments for corporate retirement plans. many funds still pay some sort of revenue sharing.

Why a $1-billion Fidelity RIA is placing LPL at the heart of its 401(k) business

Ingham Retirement dropped Sentinel Securities for LPL and is also becoming a retirement plan vendor to many LPL reps

May 22, 2013 at 4:29 AM

Terence Hong: I can confirm that these technical challenges are not insignificant given a large readership.

What to make of Orion's efforts to expand RIAs non-renewable resource -- advisor face time

RIABiz technologist Terence Hong gives his first impressions of Orion Connect and Orion Mail

April 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM

Tim Welsh: If you're not there people say, Why isn't so and so there? It's the missing persons effect.

Postscript: What exactly should we make of the T3 phenomenon?

True, software vendors themselves may be more enthused than advisors, but the conflagration of information-sharing ventures on RIAs' behalf is no footnote

February 15, 2013 at 6:02 AM

Tom Bradley and Tom Nally are still very much at ease sharing a stage.

Tim Welsh grills Tom Nally and Tom Bradley at TD's annual conference

The two Q&As reveal where the president of TD's RIA business is looking for the firm's next $100 billion and that Tom Bradley isn't saying never to rejoining RIAs

February 4, 2013 at 4:35 AM

At Salesforce headquarters, they may or may not know an RIA from an IRA, but the company still solidified the exalted position of potential industry standard bearer.

12 key events of 2012 that rocked the RIA technology landscape, Part 1

Salesforce become the industry elephant, FinFolio emerges as a player, Pershing's NetX360-whisperer gets kicked upstairs, the Weatlhcare lawsuit gets an outcome, and more

January 17, 2013 at 7:30 AM

Travis Rychnovsky: We wanted functionality that PortfolioCenter didn't have.

Orion bags Schwab's 'best' advisor -- a $1.3 billion RIA weaned on Schwab PortfolioCenter

Eric Clarke will serve Foster Group but he's also becoming a vendor of the firm's startup, Orchestrate, which automates work flows through Salesforce

January 9, 2013 at 3:58 AM

Ethan Eden: The business model is sustainable. It's a much larger opportunity than to simply charge advisors.

Market76's young Ivy League founder is threading a business-model needle and extending his mother's legacy

Over 2,000 advisors were added in nine months and the free software is looking like it's worth more than what you pay for it

January 8, 2013 at 6:31 PM

Eric Clarke sees Salesforce approaching 'industry standard' status and nudges its rivals to get into the integration ballgame.

Orion hauls down nearly $2 billion of accounts from two Advent clients, clinching better than 50% growth for the year

Eric Clarke's firm is high on Salesforce and starting to look beyond its Omaha home for expansion as it needs more and more skilled labor

December 27, 2012 at 2:25 AM

Greg Friedman: If I could have waved a wand, I would have had it two years ago.

Greg Friedman is set to finally bring Junxure to the cloud and beat back the Salesforce-ification of the industry

True, the ascension to cloud would have happened sooner in an ideal world, but the world has not passed Junxure by, the RIA and software entrepreneur says

December 12, 2012 at 6:19 PM

Schwab IMPACT is one place where the marketers and consumers clamor for each other.

An advertiser's-eye view of Schwab IMPACT: Who's doing what right?

Sponsors that use an outgoing approach get tremendous client inflow

November 20, 2012 at 4:12 PM

Neesha Hathi: We think we can bite this off.

Schwab bids to become the 'Zagat' of RIA technology and to nix ink signatures from RIA life

Neesha Hathi presents the dueling intiatives as next steps in her custodian's march toward serving 7,000 advisory firms

November 14, 2012 at 5:23 PM

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