Sybase Launches Next-Generation Analytics Platform for Wall Street

  
    
  
  
    
      Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), the largest enterprise software and services 
      company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, 
      today announced the launch of RAP – 
      The Trading Edition™, a next–generation 
      market analytics platform that 
      lets capital markets firms make better trading, risk and portfolio 
      decisions with less risk through timelier, more comprehensive market 
      insight. Designed specifically for high-volume, high-velocity trading 
      environments, RAP – The Trading Edition 
      accelerates varying analytics requirements for all asset classes in a 
      single platform.
    
    
      RAP – The 
      Trading Edition enables capital markets firms to capture and 
      consolidate high volumes of market data feeds by efficiently storing 
      multiple years of trade and other data in real time—compressing 
      stored data by up to 70% and capable of storing up to terabytes of data—while 
      delivering 10 to 100 times faster analytics performance than traditional 
      data management platforms.
    
    
      “The risk analytics market has barely been 
      tapped. There’s a huge growth opportunity to 
      be seized for vendors providing innovative offerings to optimize 
      performance,” said Tom Price, Senior Analyst 
      at TowerGroup. “Wall Street is hurting and 
      they need to look at solutions that will provide them with better 
      efficiencies in their trade lifecycles.”
    
    
      Leading financial services institutions, such as Mitsubishi UFJ 
      Securities International plc (MUSI), have already adopted RAP 
      – The Trading Edition, the first 
      commercially available solution for addressing combined analytics 
      requirements.
    
    
      “As an early adopter of RAP – 
      The Trading Edition, our trading desk has been able to be more 
      responsive to market opportunities through faster, more complete 
      analysis of market data, both historical and real-time feeds,” 
      said Jason Ross, director, Rates Trading Group at MUSI. “We 
      were pleasantly surprised at the performance speed, and found we need 
      only half the storage capacity to store the same amount of data.”
    
    
      Other key beneficiaries of the solution include quantitative analysts, 
      risk managers, and compliance officers. Analysts can run powerful 
      quantitative models against years’ worth of 
      time-series market data, trading histories, and reference data, with 
      complex analysis running in minutes vs. hours; risk managers can monitor 
      balance sheet exposure hourly to reduce firm-wide risk; and compliance 
      officers can audit the trade flow to meet the latest market compliance 
      requirements.
    
    
      “RAP – The Trading 
      Edition is the only integrated solution today with the ability to absorb 
      streaming market data feeds and consolidate these with vast stores of 
      historical data for common shared access and analysis. We offer an 
      enterprise-class platform that can offer a single source of data to the 
      entire trade life cycle, from quantitative analysis, through pre-trade 
      pricing, to market risk analysis 
      and compliance,” said Dr. Raj Nathan, Chief 
      Marketing Officer at Sybase. “In today’s 
      unforgiving market environment, financial services firms need 
      best-in-class, bullet-proof solutions that afford instantaneous 
      throughput with no down-time. Sybase® RAP – 
      The Trading Edition is very robust, having a built-in administrative 
      console and dependable business continuity/disaster recovery solutions 
      to protect against system failures.”
    
    
      For more information on RAP – 
      The Trading Edition, please visit: www.sybase.com/RAP
    
    
      About Sybase, Inc.
    
    
      Sybase is the largest enterprise software and services company 
      exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information. With our 
      global solutions, enterprises can extend their information securely and 
      make it useful for people anywhere using any device. The world's most 
      critical data in commerce, communications, finance, and government runs 
      on Sybase. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com.
    
    
      Sybase and RAP – The Trading Edition are 
      trademarks or registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. All other company 
      and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective 
      companies with which they are associated.
    
    
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