Product

Xenomorph TimeScape

November 24, 2009

TimeScape encompasses the high performance capture, cleansing, storage, integration and analysis of reference, historical, real-time and derived data across all financial asset classes. TimeScape is used across the world’s main financial centres by investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds.

TimeScape key product features:

To support consistency and transparency in Data Management TimeScape offers:

• Security master
• Prices/rates/curves management
• Data integration/capture
• Tick/time series database
• Data distribution

To ensure consistency and transparency in Analytics Management TimeScape offers:

• Analytics and model centralisation
• Derivatives/product valuation management
• Data analysis/decision support

Benefits of TimeScape:

• Accelerates decision making – More data can be analysed in less time for greater trading insight and better risk management
• Increases processing efficiency – Automation of data capture, cleansing and validation frees staff from manual data maintenance to spend more time on data analysis and the development of investment strategies and new products
• Increases transparency and consistency – Centralised data and analytics leads to greater transparency, consistency and shared knowledge across the institution
• Increases data quality – Automated and high-volume data cleansing delivers higher quality data, leading to more effective trading and risk management decision-making, and easier achievement of regulatory approval
• Reduces data costs – Consolidating multiple data sources into one central source for all departments ensures data from data feeds is only requested and paid for once
• Reduces operational risk – Automated data cleansing and validation reduces dependency on manual manipulation of data, minimising exposure to human error and fraud
• Multi-asset capable – Enables easy support of new asset classes and new data fields reducing the need for tactical spreadsheet management of key instruments and trading data
• Future proof – Designed for change that meets the timelines needed for trading, risk management and regulatory compliance

Open architecture

TimeScape’s architecture has been designed from the outset to be open so that organisations can utilise its capabilities to meet their specific business needs. This is achieved by providing rich application programming interfaces (APIs) for accessing the system from third party applications such as Microsoft Excel, MATLAB or the Client’s own internal applications and web services. TimeScape also provides software development kits (SDKs) to enable clients to extend the system’s internal capabilities in the area of data feed connectivity, analytics, pricing and task functionality, linking to data vendors such as Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, and to model vendors such as Numerix and Monis. These powerful server-side SDKs are often used by organisations wishing to add their own proprietary analytical methodologies or connections to other systems and databases.