The CBOT® is leveraging Kintana's strength and flexibility in project management and demand management to improve staff efficiency by automating and standardizing a variety of processes across the organization. The new Kintana Dashboard will help improve collaboration across IT projects by allowing everyone involved in each project to view and update project status. Implementing Kintana is part of the CBOT®'s preparation to handle future emergency situations.
"Kintana provides the Chicago Board of Trade with the real-time visibility and control, all along the management chain, that will help keep projects and issues moving smoothly to market, even in emergency situations," said CBOT® Executive Vice President William Farrow.
"More and more companies like the Chicago Board of Trade are seeing the importance and strategic value of running IT in real time, just like the other business units," said Kintana CEO Bryan Plug. "You have to be able to see what's going on in the organization to predict and affect deliverable dates and resource needs. We're delighted that another industry leader is using Kintana to deliver that visibility and control."
About Kintana
Kintana has created the first enterprise software application specifically designed to help transform the business of Information Technology. Kintana's comprehensive solution manages, automates, and provides real-time visibility and control over IT business processes, improving productivity while reducing costs, risk, and time-to-market. Kintana is how business and IT work together. The privately held company, founded in 1995 as Chain Link Technologies and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, currently serves more than 275 customers, including Cisco, Credit Suisse, Ford and GE. For more information on Kintana and its products, visit www.kintanaa.com, or call 1-877-KINTANA.
About the Chicago Board of Trade
Providing a diverse mix of financial, equity and commodity futures and options-on-futures products, the Chicago Board of Trade advances into the 21st Century on the strength of over 150 years of member-trader expertise, unparalleled liquidity, and market integrity. Via both open auction and electronic trading platforms, the CBOT® provides premier customer service to risk managers and investors worldwide. Established in 1848 as a market for agricultural producers to achieve price protection, today the CBOT® offers more than 60 different products, including futures and options-on-futures on U.S. Treasury Bonds and notes, the DowSMJones Industrial Average and other DowSMJones Indices. For more information about the CBOT®'s markets, log on to the exchange's web site at www.cbot.com.
