Hedge Fund Solutions

Accelerating Analytics and Modeling

Hedge funds require a powerful technology infrastructure that allows them to conduct the necessary portfolio and risk analysis and modeling that are a core part of their business. Sybase’s radical software innovations provide that infrastructure, allowing customers to accomplish mission-critical tasks with breathtaking speed:

• Delivering analytics to traders in seconds, up to 1,000 times faster when analyzing years’ worth of market and reference data
• Delivering low-latency market data to programs in sub-milliseconds
• Delivering to traders a near-instant unified view of real-time and historical tick data
• Dramatically reducing the time required for simulations, regression testing and back-testing

These capabilities, and much more, are based on two powerful, acclaimed innovations from Sybase: Real-time Analytics Platform (RAP) and Sybase IQ.

REAL-TIME ANALYTICS PLATFORM

Sybase Real-time Analytics Platform was designed from the ground up for trading and analytical applications in capital markets. It quickly captures and consolidates explosive volumes of live market data with vast stores of historical data in a single view.

With Sybase Real-time Analytics Platform, hedge fund managers can spot trends and opportunities buried in the data and act upon them ahead of the competition. They can achieve a comprehensive view of market activity within minutes for near real-time analytics.

Benefits

• A holistic view of the state of the market: A single repository for both live market and historical data
• Faster reactions to market opportunities: Eliminates lengthy batch update cycles for quantitative analysis and modeling
• Rapid time-to-benefit: An integrated, pre-built data model simplifies and automates common data capture and storage functions

For more information about Risk Analytics Platform, please visit the product page.

SYBASE IQ

Sybase IQ is a highly optimized analytics server designed specifically to deliver faster results for analytics-based business intelligence, data warehouse and reporting solutions on any standard hardware and operating systems. It delivers unsurpassed query performance at the lowest price/performance available.

Sybase IQ combines extraordinary speed and agility with low total cost of ownership, enabling hedge funds to perform complex analysis and reporting that was previously impossible, impractical or cost-prohibitive. This is possible through Sybase IQ's radically innovative column-based processing approach to analytical and reporting processes.

Get the kinds of results that more than a thousand Sybase IQ customers are experiencing everyday – at least a ten-fold increase in query speed, even on terabytes of data, delivered to thousands of users at exactly the right time.

For more information about Sybase IQ, please visit the product page.