Business Requirement

IT solutions provider specializing in financial services applications, providing market leading software solutions to financial institutions across Australasia, Europe, North America and Middle East.

To review and optimize the over-all application and system architecture for performance efficiency of ‘Pricing Application for OTC Derivatives’ comprising Market Data Feed with in-memory processing, Pricing Engine with Complex Event Processing and User Management.

• Review the business processes to define the IT Strategy that aligns with business strategy.
• Setup a datacentre, with scalability to manage business growth.
• Evaluate and implement applications for all the business functions.
• IT Governance and Compliance to meet the regulatory requirements.

Strobus Solution

Strobus defined the architecture that could measure the performance of all the components, which would help to optimize the over-all system and application for high performance.

• Benchmark planned sizing for targeted load, response time & throughput.
• Establish a continuous Improvement and performance management program.
• Well-defined business cases to measure the performance based on the user base, user profile mix, usage pattern, combination of pricing models, and market volatility.

Business Benefits

The outputs of the benchmarking activity helped

• To identify and mitigate risks in all the modules.
• To optimize the system and application architecture, both on module-wise and on over-all setup.
• To size the infrastructure efficiently for a better TCO.
• Flexibly scale the system based on the targeted business growth.