ITECS
Technology
We leverage our
innovative, component-driven development platform to
bring complex, high-volume solutions to market at a
pace unmatched in our industry. Our technology allows
our clients to work exactly how they want.
We organize our
technology infrastructure around two primary areas...
Technology
Components
Our platform includes core technology components that
provide the supporting infrastructure upon which business-
and asset-specific components and functionality are
based. The core components give applications their inherent
performance power, stability, scalability, and ease
of integration.
Business
Components
Our business components deliver those features and functions
that are common across all asset types, including position
keeping; P&L; and the unique characteristics of
the asset classes we address, including equities, fixed
income, and foreign exchange. This enables us to deploy
our products as an institution's single solution.
Technological
Capabilities
We employ
several techniques to ensure the high-performance
nature of our components:
- • Decoupling:
independent features are decoupled from one
another, allowing them to run in parallel
• Multi-threading: components to take
advantage of additional processors on multi-processor
machines
• Thread Pooling: the number of threads
available to a component can be controlled to
provide maximum efficiency
• Serialization Optimizations: components
employ a number of techniques to reduce the
amount of serialization when passing data between
components
• Data Caching: all data stores can be
configured to cache data
• Parallel Execution: data is delivered
to components in parallel whenever possible
• Adaptive Event Delivery: to better cope
with peak loads, events can be delivered in
batches to smooth processing requirements
• J2EE Clustering: our solutions leverage
clustering to run across multiple systems
• Application Partitioning: solutions
can be broken up into sub-systems and run on
different systems
• Data Partitioning: transactions and
requests can be routed across a number of systems
based on a set of criteria.
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Business
Component Detail
ITECS applications
are comprised of reusable and highly configurable
business components that let our customers set
up new instruments and implement new business
flows quickly. When we add a new product, the
time-to-market, reliability, and completeness
are unmatched given the huge head start that the
components provide.
Examples
of our configurable business components include:
- • Position keeping
• Pricing
• Booking
• Instrument definer
• Ticketing
• Filtering
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Integration
We use a Data Model Independent, Transformer/Adapter
pattern to make integration easy and non-invasive, both
with ancillary systems and existing databases.
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