Editor's note

Welcome to TaVantage's maiden edition. TaVantage is an initiative to provide insights into the intersection of technologies with domains like Consumer Lending, Service Operations, eBusiness, and Trading & Securities.

TaVantage will feature insightful questions, exciting upcoming webinars, and information to download. I’d love to get your feedback. Write to me with your inputs and what you’d like us to add to this newsletter.

Lisa Collins
Editor

What's cooking in the Tavant kitchen?

Tavant once again makes it to the Top 50 Mortgage Technology Providers list. Read more...

Tavant named in the World’s 25 Unsung Innovative Companies list. Read more...

 

What's up with the world around

Recently Citi provided historical Quarterly Financial Data Supplement for its 3 segments - Citicorp, Citi Holdings, and Corporate/Other. [Covered by Reuters]

Chrysler Financial Drops Industrial Bank Application. [Covered by ADVFN]

 

Featured CASE STUDY

Unique BI solution enables advertising industry to study second-by-second commercial and program viewing behavior. Read the complete case study.

 

Featured WHITEPAPER

Ensuring ROI from Mortgage IT Offshore Outsourcing. Read the full paper.

Social Networking – connect with your audience!

Manish Arya, Chief Technology Officer at Tavant, provides an insight into social media’s impact on the present day marketer through interesting examples including EA’s recent success - TheSims3.com

Popular social-networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube have demonstrated how much people across the world love to share what’s happening in their lives and share what they’ve created. There are thousands of examples of other companies innovating with this model, but to what extent have you thought about how to use some of these ideas in your own business?

Consider this example. Electronic Arts launched The Sims 3 game in June along with a community site: www.TheSims3.com. The Sims 3 game lets players create all kinds of objects for use by their virtual characters called Sims – items such as clothing, accessories, furniture, households, and lots. It lets them create custom Sims too with different personality traits. The Sims franchise has been one of EA’s (and the gaming world’s) most successful businesses. The response to the recent game launch was amazing – EA sold 1.4 million copies in just the first week.



       
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