Redi Teams With OpenFin to Improve App Development

Mark Etherington, Redi's CTO, tells WatersTechnology that OpenFin's solution allows firms to develop rich HTML5 applications, and then securely deploy them into the trade management platform, all while bringing added sophistication to the desktop experience.

"Redi's initial focus has been the development of our new HTML5 Spread Trader application," Etherington says. "Our new Spread Trader, which is currently in the beta-testing phase, is seamlessly launched from our REDIPlus desktop and feels to the user like any other native window. We have several other significant releases in the pipeline that will leverage the same technology and allow for a better user experience."

Etherington, who joined Redi as CTO last year, says that through the partnership, Redi will be able to roll out new applications and services to clients much more quickly and it will improve the update process because they can make those changes on the back-end without the need for users to upgrade to a new version.

"The container provides not only a secure HTML5 environment, but a communications mechanism to allow desktop components to communicate and share data in a reliable fashion," he says. "Later in the year, we intend to expose the REDIPlus OpenFin adaptor to our client base in the same way as we opened REDIPlus with our application program interface (API)  and software development kit (SDK)."

Redi has been a part of OpenFin's advisory board since it was put together late last year, according to Etherington. "Today's announcement is a formalization of a relationship that's been in place for the past year or so," he says.