SunGard and Albridge Solutions have completed the dataintegration between SunGard's financial modeling and planningsolution and Albridge's consolidated client data. The integrationprovides customers, including insurance companies, with the abilityto access Albridge's consolidated data through SunGard'sPlanningStation solution. Users can benefit from automated accessto customer account data, increased productivity, and consolidatedviews of customer assets.

"One of the biggest challenges in wealth management is having acomplete view of the client's financial situation," says BlaineMaxfield, president of SunGard's wealth management solutionsbusiness. "SunGard's integration with Albridge helps users toleverage the data consolidation strengths of Albridge and use thatinformation in a data collection process with SunGard's financialplanning tools, which help advisors create an unlimited number of'what if' planning scenarios and then update them instantly withaccount data from Albridge."

The Albridge integration with SunGard's PlanningStation, astand-alone solution as well as a component of SunGard'sWealthStation wealth management technology platform, is achievedvia XML-based Web services and will be provided to users in a SaaSor ASP environment. Albridge also offers replicated data servicesto a number of users of SunGard's Protegent surveillance solutionfor suitability and pre- and post-trade compliance.