IBM Sybase Risk Analytics Platform for IBM Power Systems Solution

Highlights

• Provides a holistic view of the state of the market—a single repository for both live market and historical data
• Enables faster reaction to market opportunities—helps eliminate overnight batch updates for quantitative analysis and modeling
• Helps reduce time-to-benefit—uses pre-built data models, simplifying and automating common data capture and storage functions
• Built on IBM POWER™ processor-based servers to provide powerful, scalable database serving for time-critical, risk management environments

Today’s global capital markets are under increasing pressure to drive growth and profitability by improving returns on invested capital. To do so, both buy- and sell-side players rely heavily upon the ability to quickly access and analyze massive amounts of market data—both real-time and historical. Most firms have been unable to do this well, as the available solutions force a compromise between the size of the data set versus the depth of analysis. The Sybase® Risk Analytics Platform for IBM Power™ Systems Solution is a consolidated risk and trade data repository designed to manage high-volume, real-time data feeds as well as massive historical and corporate reference data sets. This solution presents time-critical market data in context with other relevant data, which improves the quality and profitability of portfolio and trading decisions.

Solution summary

• Provides a holistic view of the state of the market—a single repository for both live market and historical data
• Enables faster reaction to market opportunities—helps eliminate overnight batch updates for quantitative analysis and modeling
• Helps reduce timeHYPHENto-benefit—preHYPHENbuilt data model simplifies and automates common data capture and storage functions
• Helps reduce effort—Sybase PowerDesigner data model tool simplifies management of physical data schemas over time
• IBMTHSPACEPower Systems servers provide powerful, scalable database serving for time-critical, risk management environments
• Faster—Sybase IQ empowers ad hoc query performance up to 100 times faster than a traditional RDBMS ¹
• Less expensive—Uses sophisticated compression algorithms that reduce the volume of data to be stored by up to 70 percent ¹
• Easier—does not require timeHYPHEN and resourceHYPHENintensive tuning to obtain excellent performance
• More scalable—Near-linear user and data scalability supports thousands of users and terabytes of data ¹