Case study 3

Proven value in developing solutions that provide extended support for decision making in managing multi-billion-dollar positions and related risks.

Fixed Income Analytics Website for a Global Financial Services Provider

PROBLEM:
  1. Deliver proprietary research and analytics to large institutional customers
    • Relieve sales staff having to fulfill customer research requests
    • Counter competitive threat from Salomon YieldBook
  2. Incompatible fixed income analytic systems
    • Overlapping functionality, different look-and-feel
    • Different databases

SOLUTION:
  • Web portal for historical / pricing information across markets
    • Integrated view of the firm’s diverse analytic resources
    • Uniform reports spanning data from a number of independent databases

  • Multi-tiered architecture
    • CORBA data servers to interface with different data sources like Sybase and FAME
    • CORBA calculation servers with financial analytics and time series data
    • Web server with custom CORBA client software written in C++ and Perl
    • A thin client based on HTML and JavaScript