Interactive Data Bases Managed Data Service on SAP Sybase RAP
Interactive Data has deployed SAP’s Sybase Real-time Analytics Platform (RAP) as the basis of a managed data service that combines securities, pricing and corporate actions data, and delivers data on demand to Microsoft Excel and other front and middle office proprietary and packaged applications. Marc Alvarez, senior director of reference data at Interactive Data, explains:...
Xenomorph Adds R to TimeScape and Plans More Integration with Scripting Languages
Xenomorph has integrated the R language and environment with its TimeScape analytics and data management platform, and plans to integrate more scripting languages as they gain popularity among quantitative traders and risk managers. The integration of R, an open source data analysis platform, allows users of the language to access validated datasets managed within TimeScape...
AIM Software Extends Market Reach with Business Applications for Data Management
AIM Software is challenging competitors in the enterprise data management (EDM) space with a business approach to data management that includes fixed price, packaged applications covering market data, reference data and corporate actions data. The Vienna, Austria based company says these solutions, plus a ‘Go West’ strategy focused on expansion in the US and UK,...
Software Vendors Welcome Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ Partner Programme
Software vendors and end users have welcomed the formalisation of Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ vendor partner programme that allows financial software vendors to make their apps ‘Bloomberg ready’ by connecting them to Bloomberg applications and providing access to Bloomberg data. Bloomberg introduced the programme with 125 financial software partners offering everything from order, execution and risk...
Opinion: The Digital Data Navigator (Dat Nav?) Era – Part 2
Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft PLC. This section looks ahead to see if there are lessons from the age of digital cartography to provide insights into how data management and navigation might develop in the next few years. The Digital Divide Financial services organisations and their suppliers are still struggling to produce the data equivalent...
First Derivatives and Pivotal Collaborate on Next-Generation Data Architecture
First Derivatives (FD) is providing consulting services around technology from Pivotal with a view to helping customers build next-generation data architectures and applications for risk management, regulatory compliance, market surveillance and trading. FD will work initially to help clients install and commission Pivotal software and build out intelligent data lakes using semantic tagging, but expects...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A New Kind of Single Source of the Truth
I’ve been struck in recent months by the changing attitudes within our marketplace to the concept of a golden copy, or single, accepted source of the truth as far as reference data is concerned. The industry seems to be moving away from established principles of on-site enterprise data management, most visibly – noisily, perhaps? –...
Opinion: Data Management – Taking the Bus Without a Map?
Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft PLC. The first maps were probably scratched with sticks on the ground for people from the same locality who knew the surrounding area. Now when travelling we use satellite navigation. But when navigating data it feels as if we are still scratching around. We use electronic documents, not sticks, but...
CounterpartyLink Adds Risk Screening to Legal Entity Information Service
CounterpartyLink has augmented its legal entity and counterparty intelligence service through a partnership with RDC, a provider of risk and compliance data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, Politically Exposed Persons protection, corruption, fraud and crime protection, vendor screening and monitoring, and credit risk monitoring. The partnership is a response to...
Data Management Summit: Building a Flexible Enterprise Architecture
Flexible data architecture has become essential to financial institutions seeking to respond quickly to both market opportunities and challenges, but it can be difficult to build. Experts on the subject convened at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit for a panel discussion covering the problems inherent to developing flexible enterprise data infrastructure, as well some solutions....