Nominations for  Technology Company of the Year were open to all Nebraska heartland firms that receive more than half their revenue from technology related products or services  -or-  create at least half their “value-add” through the application of technology. 

TD AMERITRADE
Represented by Jerry Bartlett
Vice President and CIO

TD AMERITRADE provides financial services including online trading and brokerage services. Technology provides the basis for its competitive differentiation in an otherwise commoditized market. Nearly all aspects of TD AMERITRADE’s technology platform are mission-critical.

TD AMERITRADE delivers an intuitive, secure and dependable technology-driven service for more than 6 million accounts totaling over $278 billion in assets. In fiscal 2006, TD AMERITRADE averaged 217,000 trades per day and in the quarter ending September 2006 was responsible for placing 26 percent of all online brokerage trades in the United States.

TD AMERITRADE has played a significant role in the consolidation of the online brokerage industry by completing eight mergers and acquisitions since 2001 including the largest acquisition in the history of the industry in 2006. The ability to integrate these acquisitions while maintaining significant operating margins are testament to the quality of TD AMERITRADE's systems, processes, and associates.

TD AMERITRADE demonstrates technology leadership in a number of areas. They were an early adopter of Open Source software, Service Oriented Architectures, and the large scale deployment of commodity hardware in production systems. They openly share successes and lessons learned with the IT community through articles authored by associates, coverage in IT publications and speaking engagements at numerous industry conferences and tradeshows.

For its commitment to technology excellence, TD AMERITRADE is the 2007 Technology Company of the Year.

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