BST Awards 2020: Best OMS—SS&C Eze

On top of a pandemic that seems to change course with each passing month, asset managers are grappling with a swiftly growing list of things to be concerned about. On that list are fee pressures caused by competition from passive investors, greater demand for transparency, and cybersecurity risks from hackers who get smarter all the time.

Asset managers must either build solutions or buy from trusted technology providers to automate and streamline cumbersome, error-prone processes, so they can, in turn, focus on ideas that return alpha. SS&C Eze’s order management system stands out as one such trusted product among buy-side firms, winning the category of best buy-side OMS for the second year in a row.

Over the last 12 months, Eze OMS development has centered on a flurry of themes: enhanced integrations across the product suite, including the Auto-Trade Sync, which now synchronizes trades between Eze OMS and Eze EMS in real-time; enhanced and added standard configurations that allow clients to onboard the product quicker; bolstering multi-asset class capabilities including, for example, Eze’s fixed-income valuation tools; and introducing a new mobile application leveraging Eze Eclipse’s cloud microservices technology to manage investment operations from an intuitive, on-the-go platform.

“We release updates every six weeks and pride ourselves on being a fast-moving, agile-technology company, passionate about driving investment technology innovation,” says Frank Orzechowski, managing director of product management at SS&C Eze.

Looking ahead to 2021, the company plans to focus on finding ways to further its integrations with third parties and with other SS&C platforms on a mission to provide clients with an end-to-end ecosystem. Orzechowski says Eze will continue its emphasis on enhancing its fixed-income solutions by offering native credit valuation functionality for fixed-income securities so clients can consolidate vendors.

“We will continue to deepen the compliance functionality that continues to set us apart from the competition,” Orzechowski says. “We continue to improve our serviceability, scalability, and effectiveness to retain our diverse client base.”