financial risk management software


www.sybase.com Sybase RAP is a financial analytics software solution for trading platforms that solves issues with the volume and velocity of information that is coming into the financial services institutions. This data management software for capital markets achieves complex event processing (CEP) in automated and FX trading systems. Hi my name’s Neil McGovern, Im Director of Product Marketing at Sybase. We have been talking to our capital markets customers, weve identified two problems that they’re facing. Firstly, they’re getting swamped with market data. The volumes and velocities of market data is growing exponentially and is just overwhelming their internal systems. Secondly, they have a problem with the fragmentation of their market data within their organizations. They have different data stores for their quants, for their trading systems, for their risk managers, for their compliance officers and these different systems have discrepancies between them which are causing major issues. The reason they have these different systems is because some systems are tuned to how to handle huge volumes of information, other systems are focused on the speed of access to the information. Sybase is addressing this problem with a single product Sybase RAP – The Trading Edition. This is a unique combination of ultra latency technology as well as technology that can store massive amounts of historical information. Other companies talk about gigabytes we talk about petabytes. RAP …