InterSystems in Financial Services

InterSystems in Financial Services

Financial services companies are under intense pressure to stay within budget and to control expenditures on information technology. Yet, to satisfy customers and keep pace with huge (and growing) volumes of fast-changing data, they must continually develop and deploy high-performance applications and integrated solutions. It makes sense that the people responsible for the world s money would choose technology that allows them to create solutions that are faster to build, and also run faster. InterSystems Caché is the high-performance object database that runs SQL faster than relational databases. By eliminating object-relational mapping, Caché dramatically accelerates application development and decreases time-to-market. InterSystems Ensemble is a rapid integration platform for connecting multiple systems and processes. It allows you to leverage existing applications without rewriting them by adding rich Web interfaces, adaptable workflow, rules-based business processes, and more. Our technology powers mission-critical, high-volume trading applications in leading financial institutions worldwide, including: 5 of the top 10 Broker Dealers 5 of the top 10 Asset Managers 6 of the top 10 Global Banks With Caché and Ensemble, financial services application developers can meet the need for high-performance, low-cost solutions. Our technology is found in world-class solutions for a wide range of financial services activities, including: Database acceleration, including trade acceleration, routing, and management Real-time processing of highly distributed data High-volume market data capture for pricing Risk management Real-time P&L analysis Portfolio management and accounting Asset management Straight-through processing for clearing and settlement Real-time access to large market databases for advanced analytics Market data and reference data management Compliance

Why Do Developers of Financial Services Solutions Choose Our Technology? Caché and Ensemble share innovative core technology that provide benefits the financial services industry demands. Lightning-fast performance The unique multidimensional data structures used by Caché and Ensemble are more efficient for storing and retrieving data than the two-dimensional tables used by products built on relational technology. They eliminate the processing overhead caused by the joins and table-hopping that relational databases perform to reassemble data for transactions. Less processing overhead means higher performance. In real-world applications, solutions based on our technology run faster often several times faster than solutions using relational technology. For financial services applications, that means lightningfast transaction processing as well as the ability to deliver information immediately just when financial professionals need it to make portfolio management and trading decisions that reduce risk and capitalize on opportunities. Massive scalability Change, growth, and mergers are major forces in financial services. Solutions that use our technology can grow from a single PC client to distributed networks with hundreds of servers and tens of thousands of clients without changing a single line of code or sacrificing performance. In fact, the largest integrated client/server system in the world, serving over 50,000 users, runs on Caché. Real-time data analytics We are the only company to offer a database product with bit-map indexing technology that is so fast, it is suitable for use with live data. As a result, financial analysts need never work with old data, but can perform real-time, advanced analytics on dynamic market data while the system maintains its high-performance transactional processing. Our products also enable the easy creation of executive dashboards that can display dynamic data in real time. Robust reliability The world of finance never sleeps, and financial services solutions have to always be available. We include a number of resiliency features in our products, so the solutions they power can run constantly.

Rapid development, integration, and deployment Our technology is an ideal match for rapid object-oriented development and integration technologies and standards. Because no mapping is required between objects and the innovative multidimensional data structures used by Caché and Ensemble, development times can be cut by as much as 40%. Our object technology supports the use of Java, EJB,.NET, XML and SOAP, C++, and other object-oriented languages and protocols. But even when modeled as objects, all data is automatically accessible via ODBC and JDBC. Seamless XML support Caché and Ensemble transparently parse XML, and store data without the need for mapping to relational data structures. The results are higher processing speeds and faster application development. Our products support a wide range of standards found in financial services solutions including XBRL, FpML, MDDL, RIXML, and FIXML. Cost effectiveness With their simplified system management, reliability, and high availability, solutions built on our products require minimal administrative resources and so can run at a lower cost. Add that together with typically lower hardware and development costs for solutions running on Caché or Ensemble, and the result is lower total cost-of-ownership. In short, our technology enables developers and integrators to provide the affordable solutions that financial services companies are looking to buy.

InterSystems in Financial Services Around the World Here is a partial list of companies using InterSystems technology in financial services applications. Company Application Amalgamated Bank ABN AMRO Agility Investment Services Arrow Financial Banco Aleman Platino Banesto Bolsa Bank of Hawaii Bank of Montreal Bankers Trust Bank Adamin-Israel Barclays Bank Barings-Ireland BNP Paribas Securities Services Bradford and Bingley Cambridge Trust CCLA Investment Management Centrotrade Mineral Exchange Ceská sporitelna CICLA Coutts Bank Credit Suisse DeltaBank Deutsche Bank Eastern Bank Escape/M Fairbairn Fiduciary Trust Company International First Fidelity Fiserv Forum Solutions Franklin Templeton Friends Provident Fuji Bank and Trust Generali International i-deal (Thompson Financial) Integrated Software Solutions /Risk Management Market Pump/Trade Order Management Revenue Recovery System Risk Management Back Office Accounting Front & Back Office Processing Back Office Processing Back Office Accounting System Back Office Accounting Retail Fund Management System Investment Management Risk Management Unit Trust Management System Credit Report Generation System Algorithmic Trading & Trade Management Integrated Front & Back Office Processing, Retail Services Securities Processing Retail Operations System Private Banking Equity Management/ Lending Application Financial Data Repository Risk Management Online-Syndication Process System Securities Processing & Transfer System

Hancock Bank HSBC HBOS plc JPMorgan Chase Jupiter Legal & General Lehman Brothers Lloyds Bank M&G Investments MDM-Bank Mellon Europe Merrill Lynch Mizuho Moore Capital Investment National Advisors NatWest Asset Northern Trust Ontario Systems Palmer and Dodge Programbank-Russia Provident Bank Prudential Rathbones Rhyme Systems Royal Bank of Scotland Royal and Sun Alliance Sanwa Bank and Trust Skandia State Street Bank SunGard TD Ameritrade Tradepaq United Bank USERS Inc. VAR Fondsforsikring AS Custody System Wealth Management, Private Banking System, Risk Management Investment Management Equity Data Repository System Wealth Management Retail Operations System Broker Registration System, Payment System Bond Trading Application Central Repository for Trade Management Holding International Banking Platform Accounts Receivables Product Integrated Front & Back Office Processing Risk Management Back Office Processing Time Cost Accounting Credit Union Automation

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