CEP
SunGard to use StreamBase CEP for product development
Units of financial technology juggernaut SunGard are to use StreamBase Systems' complex event processing (CEP) platform for various product and infrastructure development projects to improve delivery to end users.
StreamBase Opens Developers Sandbox
NEW YORK-Complex event processing (CEP) platform provider StreamBase Systems has built an online service that will allow financial industry IT developers to download and share reusable components in a global community, vendor officials announced today,…
Microsoft SQL Server to Gain Native CEP
NEW YORK-Software giant Microsoft expects to include its complex-event processing (CEP) platform as a standard feature in the next release of its Microsoft SQL Server line, due out before the end of the second quarter, DWT has learned.
Natural affinity
For fund managers seeking high-frequency trading capabilities, the standard build-versus-buy proposition is no longer wholly pertinent – and for good reason. The advent of complex event processing technology has provided a third viable option. By Stewart…
CEP Consolidates Position as Technology Matures
Complex event processing software vendors pushed into new business areas in 2009 as CEP gained adoption for mainstream applications, and to mitigate the impact of the economy with a diversified product set.
Data Consumers Spend for Technology Edge
Difficult operating conditions prevailed in the aftermath of the financial crisis, but user firms continued to invest in data technologies to give them an edge over rivals during 2009, either in the speed of sourcing and processing data, or in quality of…
Appetite for Disruption
Many modern technologies that we take for granted start life designed for specialized purposes in niche business areas. For example, performance-enhancing features on modern road cars often have their origins in Formula One racecars, while some low…
Sybase Eyes Investor Lemon Law
DUBLIN, CALIF.-Over the next six to 18 months, database vendor Sybase expects that its financial services clients will see a dramatic increase in deployments concerning regulatory compliance rather than risk management due to pending regulations on…
Real-time risk: a mandate for trading in volatile markets
Not long ago financial services firms had to run their Monte Carlo simulations overnight. But with the advent of faster processors and new technology, firms can now manage their risk in real time or near to real time. Buy-Side Technology and DWT hosted a…
Have Trench Coat, Will Travel
Maybe it's because I'm watching a film adaptation of John le Carré's espionage novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, or maybe it's because summer is here and Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum novels are perfect beach reading material, but for some reason I have…
Navigating Market Volatility with Real-Time Risk Management
It wasn't long ago that the most sophisticated investment firms wanting to manage their risk needed to run their Monte Carlo simulations and other models as overnight processes due to IT constraints. Thanks to faster processors and innovations such as…
SIFMA 2009: Think Small
While this year's SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibition will probably be most remembered for being much smaller than the spectacles of years gone by in terms of exhibitor numbers and delegates-hardly surprising, given the current state of…
Sifma: A Show in Review
NEW YORK-Mirroring the industry that it serves, this year's Technology Management Conference and Exhibit, hosted by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) in Midtown Manhattan last week, saw fewer exhibitors and lighter foot…
Aleri, Correlix Partner for Latency-as-Data Input
Complex event processing software vendor Aleri and latency monitoring provider Correlix have integrated their systems to enable clients using CEP-based trading strategies to incorporate results from Correlix's Latency Intelligence tools as an input to…
Editor's Letter - Risk is all around
The rate of change across the buy side - when inertia is finally overcome and change takes place - is often swift. The buy-side approach to risk is a case in point. It wasn't long ago that risk was a bit of a giggle for many buy-side firms, which, during…
Drastic Cutbacks
COVER STORY
StreamBase sees Aleri-Coral8 clients up for grabs following merger
As complex event processing (CEP) garners more traction among buy-side and hedge fund managers, competition among CEP vendors has become intense.