Decalog
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From the publisher website or publicity Overview Portfolio Management & Trading Solution for the Buy-side Investment Management Industry- Streamline your Investment Operations Decalog is a front- and middle-office straight-through processing solution for investment management firms. Decalog is an integrated suite of modules:
By streamlining, enriching and automating critical elements of the investment management process, the Decalog solution enables the firms to experience the benefits of straight-through processing (STP). Thus, clients can run their businesses more profitably while increasing customer satisfaction and improving return on assets under management. Key Benefits Covering all the Complex Needs of our Clients… - Decalog is Comprehensive A complete offering. Decalog handles a vast array of functions and operations, workflow formats, and market segments, to link multiple offices and remote locations. All assets, one database. The Decalog product suite is built around a single, integrated data repository using industry-standard relational databases. Equities, fixed income, money market instruments, derivatives, swaps, options, futures, repos, MBS, and more are all tightly integrated into one enterprise-wide database.Thus, Decalog can simultaneously meet the requirements of traders, portfolio managers, compliance executives and other professionals in your firm. A multi-currency solution. Decalog was designed in a multi-currency environment, and support for all world currencies has been built in from the start. - Decalog is Open Open architecture. The foundation for Decalog is a strong underlying architecture that is designed around open, multi-tier client/server technologies for easy customization and integration. This function-rich architecture runs smoothly within Windows NT®, Windows 2000® and UNIX®, as well as with top relational database solutions, such as Oracle® and Sybase®. Technological innovation. Decalog employs a unique "Thinner Client" 3-tier client/server architecture (Database Server / Application Server / End-User PC). Because the modules reside on a server instead of PCs, response is fast. Connectivity. A front- and middle-office solution suite, Decalog is designed to easily integrate with the external or internal systems you need. We can customize interfaces to back-office accounting systems, custodians, external data sources, and fully support standard industry protocols like FIX. - WISDOM: a Fast and Proven Implementation Methodology Our Professional Services team uses a proven approach to set up, deploy and support Decalog in your organization: the WISDOM- Worldwide Implementation Standard Decalog Organized Methodology. We review our methodology with you and integrate it with your organization's own priorities and standards. We then compile a complete project estimate, so you always know what to expect. Count on us to manage the entire process, through every step, keeping you informed of work done and cost-to-date on a weekly basis. - Integration for Straight-through Processing Internal STP: The combination of Decalog's front- and middle-office capabilities with the SunGard Transaction Network and SunGard's INVEST ONE or GLOBAL PORTFOLIO II, back-office investment accounting systems, now provides an end-to-end straight-through processing solution for the global asset manager. Decalog can also connect to Panorama™, SunGard's integrated solution for cross-asset trading, market, credit and operational risk management. External STP: - Access to Liquidity Networks through FIX By integrating the FIX capabilities in the Decalog Trading Blotter and the SunGard Transaction Network service, clients can electronically address several key execution points (Brokers, ECNs...) without incurring any connectivity cost. The linkage to the Sell side world for transmitting orders, executions and IOIs is completely pre-configured, secured, tested, easy to install and use. It is entirely supported by our professional services team with no additional cost to a firm. Brokers can return electronic confirmations that automatically update the investment managers' back-office systems, with a real-time posting of executed trades to accounting systems like SunGard's INVEST ONE® or GLOBAL PORTFOLIO II. - Post Execution Services The connection to Post Execution Services, such as the SunGard Transaction Network, also facilitates straight-through processing between asset managers, brokers, ECNs, exchanges, banks, settlement agents and custodians. Members of the STN community can automate the full transaction lifecycle for different investment types, across borders, with all of their business partners, over a single connection, while using Decalog Trader. The STN offers end-to-end support of key information flows in the trading lifecycle, including price discovery, order execution, settlement and reconciliation. The STN supports cross-border information flows for equities, mutual funds, UK unit trusts and fixed income securities. |
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