Features
Performance
• Multiple interconnected ticker plants receiving up to 12M instruments from all major global data vendors
• Bandwidth 450Mb per sec
• Storing 4TB per week
• Streaming 100TB per month
Platform
• Data Vendor independent and rapid substitution without impact on business processes
• Consistent mix of data from different sources with coherent use across all systems
• Monitoring and cleansing of the data avoiding error redundancy in the next steps of the process
• Permissioning via WebFG or 3rd party systems open DACS
• Push / pull distribution of large amount of data and on the fly calculations for a large number of end users
Management
• Internal and external marketing communication based on transparent & consistent data
• Detailed costs analysis of data usage per department and single user
• Compliance with current and future regulation
• Flexibility & scalability to rapidly adapt to future changes at low cost
• Reduced Operational Risk via smart management of data and request volume through four-tier integration.
Technology
• True push/streaming solution: low-latency and highly scalable.
• Streams data to any sort of device (PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry...) and compatible with diverse client technologies (JavaScript/HTML, Java, Flash, Flex, Silverlight,...)
• JavaScript Comet-Ajax version is compatible with practically any browser and works with zero client software installation.
• Passes through firewalls without network security restraints and works over https
• Compatible with all current browsers: Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari.
• Supports any type of live data: energy, equities, news, FX, sport....et
• The system is asynchronous where the browsers automatically receive updates from the push-modules (when received from the Data feed), without a continual request generated by the client.
• Management of many data sources via our MFDS platform, with automatic detection and fail-over to provide a highly-available service that is transparent to the user.
• Efficient data delivery with the usual features required in financial applications such as different data types (instruments, news, orders), conflation management, delta delivery etc.
• Fallback mode to Ajax long-polling where in extreme cases streaming may be blocked by a combination of firewall and reverse proxies.
