Microsoft works with an extensive ecosystem of partners to meet the needs of wealth and investment management firms with modern, high-performance, and cost-effective financial management solutions. Based on the power and flexibility of Microsoft technologies, these solutions integrate and configure information and analytics and tailor them to the customer's workflow, providing a platform for today and for the future. Our solutions are designed to help reduce costs, maximize IT efficiencies, attract and retain customers, and enable productivity, collaboration, governance and compliance. Learn more about our financial solutions partners.
29West
29West provides the lowest-latency, highest-performance, and most stable messaging infrastructure to the financial markets. In addition to the competitive advantages that low-latency messaging delivers, the company's efficient design frequently provides customers with large cost savings, because firms can handle considerably more messaging traffic with less hardware.
Website: http://www.29west.com/
Accenture
Financial services companies compete in a global business environment in which speed and differentiation must be achieved while constantly driving costs down. Accenture's business and financial services consulting helps banks, insurers, and capital markets companies enhance their performance, achieve operational excellence and differentiation, and set themselves on the road to high performance.Learn more about this featured partner.
Website: http://www.accenture.com/home/default.htm?viewType=Flash
Advent Software
For 25 years, Advent has been providing portfolio management and accounting and straight-through processing and trade order management software, services, and data to the world's leading financial professionals. Advent offers the industry-standard investment management software for asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, family offices, and wealth managers and private client service providers.
Website: http://www.advent.com/
AdviceAmerica
AdviceAmerica provides financial planning solutions that enable the employees of financial institutions to deliver comprehensive financial planning advice and customized investment advice using offline and online channels. AdviceAmerica's key products include WealthVision and AdvisorVision.
Website: http://www.adviceamerica.com/AAcorp2.0/
Aleri (formerly Coral8)
Coral8 has merged with Aleri. In the highly dynamic capital markets sector, financial institutions are constantly seeking an extra competitive edge to uncover new revenue opportunities, identify risk, reduce transaction costs, and track increasingly complicated instruments and business scenarios. Coral8 and Aleri-based complex event processing applications allow IT organizations to more effectively use high-speed data sources, both external and internal, for algorithmic trading and execution, real-time pricing and offers, risk and compliance management, and fraud detection.
Website: http://www.coral8.com/ and http://www.aleri.com/
AssetControl
Asset Control provides a turnkey, high-performance data management platform that solves the challenges of acquiring, normalizing, storing, and deploying reference and business data across the enterprise. Asset Control's TAPMaster is an out-of-the-box software product for managing and deploying capital markets and reference data. Asset Control delivers proven data management software solutions for the sourcing, quality improvement, management, and distribution of financial data, from tactical, entity-level activities to strategic, firm-wide projects. Asset Control provides reference and market data platforms that deliver the accuracy, consistency, and relevancy financial institutions need to turn mountains of data into valuable business insight.
Website: http://www.asset-control.com/
Avanade
A joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, Avanade was formed to merge the strengths of both companies-Accenture's consulting and Microsoft's technology expertise-into a single organization with enhanced ability to deliver effective, mission-critical solutions in all industries. Avanade is the only global information technology solutions consultancy that is 100 percent dedicated to using the Microsoft platform to help enterprises increase revenue, reduce costs, and reinvest in innovation for a competitive advantage.
Website: http://www.avanade.com/
BlueThread
BlueThread is an enterprise content management (ECM) solution provider, which offers measurable business benefits. Its EMC framework offers world-class benefits by delivering a low risk and dramatically lower cost-ofownership alternative, based on and supported by Microsoft SharePoint.
Website: http://www.bluethreadinc.com/
BNY ConvergEx Group
BNY ConvergEx Group is a leading global brokerage organization that serves mission-critical execution and trading needs. The company delivers strategies and tools for world-class execution on every major exchange, seamless connectivity to global markets, and reliable and anonymous sourcing of deep liquidity.
Website: http://www.bnyconvergex.com/liquidity/default.aspx
Capgemini
With more than 5,000 professionals worldwide, industry-leading expertise, and a reputation for unparalleled delivery, Capgemini is uniquely positioned to serve its customers better. In fact, more than 50 percent of financial services firms listed on the global Fortune 500 trust Capgemini to move their businesses forward with proven solutions in consulting, technology, and outsourcing.
Website: http://www.us.capgemini.com/
Charles River Investment Management System
The Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) is an award-winning software suite for all security types. Charles River IMS streamlines, automates, and enhances investment management operations, from decision support through settlement. It also provides the comprehensive tools portfolio managers, dealers and traders, and operations and compliance personnel require, all on one scalable platform. Whether deploying individual components or the full suite, investment managers can benefit from lower costs and risk and from increased operational efficiencies and complete trade-cycle support.
Website: http://www.crd.com/products/ims.php
ClusterSeven
Based in London and New York and with installations across three continents, ClusterSeven is the provider of strategic software for the management of user-built applications-i.e., spreadsheets and Microsoft Access databases. Its technology helps firms balance their governance, risk, and regulatory compliance obligations with the need for revenue generation, staff efficiency, and productivity. ClusterSeven provides non-invasive, passive monitoring and tracking of spreadsheets down to the most granular level.
Website: http://www.clusterseven.com/fw/main/Home-1.html
Comprehensive Software Systems
CSS's solution contains the tools a firm needs to effectively manage all stages in the life of an order while maintaining audit trail and effective compliance controls throughout. Predicated on a straight-through processing philosophy, CCS's OMS provides touch-free automation from the point of sale through trade creation.
Website: http://www.csssoftware.com/
Digipede Technologies
Digipede Technologies is the leading provider of distributed computing solutions on the Microsoft .NET platform. Its software, the Digipede Network, is radically easier to buy, install, learn, and use than other grid computing solutions. Now you can easily combine the power of the Microsoft Windows desktops, servers, and clusters across your enterprise to dramatically improve the scalability and speed of your key business applications.
Website: http://www.digipede.net/
Eagle Investment Systems
Eagle Investment Systems LLC is a leading global provider of financial technology solutions. Serving many of the world's most prominent financial institutions, Eagle offers data management, investment accounting, and performance measurement solutions that integrate and streamline the investment process in support of improved business efficiencies at a lower cost of ownership.
Website: http://www.eagleinvsys.com/Pages/Default.aspx
Fidessa LatentZero
Fidessa LatentZero is an international technology firm that specializes in developing complete front-office solutions for the buy-side community. Its products are used by over 180 buy-side companies, including nine of the world's largest ten global asset management organizations as well as small, specialist managers and hedge funds.
Website: http://www.latentzero.com/
GaleForce
GaleForce CRM for Capital Markets is an out-of-the-box customer relationship management solution designed specifically to meet the needs of securities brokers and dealers, bond and mutual fund brokers and dealers, and research and investment professionals.
Website: http://www.galeforcesolutions.com/
GigaSpaces Technologies
GigaSpaces Technologies is a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .NET environments that offer an alternative to traditional application servers. The company's eXtreme Application Platform allows businesses and developers to predictably scale systems under any peak demand, guarantee performance under any data processing load, and seamlessly leverage the economies of scale offered by virtual computing environments such as clouds and grids.
Website: http://www.gigaspaces.com/
IM Group
IM Group delivers information management systems and services that enable organizations to analyze and report their data for better business decisions. Its advanced, end-to-end business intelligence, data warehousing, and collaboration solutions help global organizations across industries gain insight into their business operations and improve their business performance.
Website: http://www.imgroup.com/
Impact
Impact Technologies provides solutions and services to the banking, capital markets, and insurance industries. The company offers innovative sales, communication, and planning tools that facilitate the sales experience. Impact also helps advisors and their customers make informed decisions by making complex financial concepts and calculations easy to understand.
Website: http://www.impact-tech.com/index.htm
INDATA
INDATA is a leading industry provider of software solutions for buy-side firms, including trade order management, compliance, portfolio accounting, and front and back offices. The company's I.M.S. product suite provides an integrated platform based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 that consists of functional modules for portfolio modeling, pre- and post-trade compliance, trade order management, portfolio accounting and reporting, performance measurement and attribution, composite maintenance, billing, and Web-enabled customer relationship management.
Website: http://www.indataweb.com/
IP Trade
IP Trade's vision is to provide the most secure and reliable IP Trade turrets for financial institutions around the globe. The IP Trade turret offers all the features normally associated with traditionally deployed trading rooms, but delivers them via a range of IP-PBX vendors' solutions. In addition, the open standards turret architecture allows IP Trade to seamlessly integrate with an institution's current application environment.
Website: http://www.iptrade-networks.com/
IPC
In 2001, IPC introduced Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to the trading floor. Today, IPC has delivered over 54,000 positions and over 85 percent of what IPC ships is VoIP-enabled. This technology brings new benefits to clients, as enterprise-wide deployment allows for increasingly more advanced solutions. Additionally, IPC links thousands of traders to their counterparts instantly over its managed private network infrastructure in more than 200 cities across six continents.
Website: http://www.ipc.com/
ITG
ITG combines its industry expertise and knowledge of financial markets to provide innovative offerings across the entire trading process, including sophisticated pre-trade tools, a range of execution services, and advanced post-trade analytics. Collaborating with its clients, ITG has a unique ability to bring these products and services together into comprehensive solutions no other electronic trading firm can match.
Website: http://www.itg.com/
ITWorx
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, ITWorx brings a wealth of experience to market-oriented business intelligence solutions using the highly scalable Microsoft SQL technology.
Website: http://www.itworx.com/
Lab49
Lab49 is a technology consulting firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry. Its clients include many of the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and exchanges. Lab49 designs and delivers some of the most sophisticated and forward-thinking financial applications in the industry today and has an impeccable delivery record on mission-critical systems.
Website: http://www.lab49.com/
Linedata Services
Linedata Services is a major International player in the market for financial IT solutions, specializing in asset management, insurance and savings, and leasing and credit finance. Software editor, solutions integrator, and service provider, Linedata Services offers global solutions tailored to the world of finance. Linedata Services has been listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange since May 2000.
Website: http://www.linedata.com/
Milliman
Milliman is among the world's largest independent actuarial and consulting firms, with revenues of $522 million in 2007. Founded in Seattle in 1947, Milliman currently has 48 offices in key locations worldwide and a staff of 2,100 people, including more than 1,000 qualified consultants and actuaries. Milliman is owned and managed by approximately 300 principals-senior consultants whose selection is based on their technical, professional, and business achievements.
Website: http://www.milliman.com/home/index.php
Misys
Misys is a market leader, with over 1,200 customers in more than 120 countries, including all of the world's top 50 banks. In treasury and capital markets, Misys creates integrated, comprehensive solutions for financial institutions and corporate treasury departments across the globe, enabling them to manage their capital markets activities across multiple asset classes.
Website: http://www.misys.com/
Pendo Systems
Pendo Systems is a premier provider of accounting software solutions for global financial institutions. Focused on the investment management community, Pendo Systems provides a superior solution that specifically addresses accounting needs across financial verticals.
Website: http://www.pendosystems.com/
Portrait
Portrait Software empowers business-to-consumer enterprises to drive sales, reduce attrition and optimise
marketing spend with next-generation marketing accelerators for Microsoft and legacy customer relationship management (CRM).
Website: http://www.portraitsoftware.com/
QuantHouse
QuantHouse is an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions. These include ultra-low-latency market data technologies, algo-trading development framework, and infrastructure and professional services to help hedge funds and proprietary desks, as well as low-latency-sensitive sell-side
firms, trade ahead.
Website: http://www.quanthouse.com/
Rapid Addition
Rapid Addition is the leading software solutions provider to the global electronic markets. Rapid Addition’s FIX and FAST products, which focus on high performance and low latency, capture the company’s unique insight and extensive experience in the FIX marketplace. Part of our product set is RA-ShortCut, the FIX shortcut created by Rapid Addition as part of the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009. Rapid Addition works with many of the leading global financial institutions including banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, MTFs, and investment managers.
Website: http://www.rapidaddition.com/
Salentica
Focused on delivering solutions for financial services firms for over 20 years, Salentica specializes in CRM solutions to the capital markets and insurance industries, delivered on premises or on a software-as-a-service basis.
Website: http://www.salentica.com/
SS&C
SS&C has championed the concept of straight-through processing for investment management with a suite of software solutions that integrate front-end trading and modeling, portfolio management and reporting, and back-office processing, clearing, and accounting. SS&C provides software, consulting, and premium outsourcing services to eight industries.
Website: http://www.ssctech.com/default.asp
SunGard
With annual revenue of $5 billion, SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education, and the public sector. SunGard also helps information-dependent enterprises of all types ensure the continuity of their businesses.
Website: http://www.sungard.com/sungard/
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology and the world's most trusted news organization to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare, and media markets.
Website: http://www.thomsonreuters.com/
Vhayu
Vhayu was founded in 1998 by former Intel technologists who were lead architects for the Pentium and Merced chips. Their combined experience in engineering and software development led to the vision and design of Vhayu's core technology. Their initial focus was to design software powerful and scalable enough to simultaneously capture and analyze every tick of financial market data in order to make faster trading decisions.
Vhayu was acquired by Thomson Reuters in August 2009.
Website: http://www.vhayu.com/
Xenomorph
Trading is moving to the multiasset, multistrategy age. The ability to manage and analyze ever greater volumes of data of ever greater complexity will provide the foundation for future success in financial markets. Xenomorph is delivering the enabling data management technology to support this market transformation.
Website: http://www.xenomorph.com/
