Panopticon delivers a high-performance connector for the Oracle CEP, providing financial services customers with world class visualizations and analysis of CEP data.

Stockholm, Sweden, February 6, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that its new 5.9 release includes a new data connector for Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP). This allows Oracle customers to utilize Panopticon’s interactive dashboards as the user interface for their CEP-enabled analytical solutions. The announcement comes on the heels of an integrated demonstration that was showcased at Oracle OpenWorld in October. At the event, Oracle and Deloitte gave conference attendees a preview of the combined system's real-time risk management analytics capabilities.

Oracle CEP, coupled with Oracle Coherence, has the ability to process multiple event streams, including market data, to detect patterns and trends in real time. It provides traders and managers with the visibility they need to capitalize on emerging opportunities or react to prospective risks. Oracle CEP helps people make decisions based on large amounts of rapidly-changing data and has applications in financial services, telecoms, utilities, retail, and energy.

Panopticon’s unique data visualization software incorporates StreamCube™, a real-time OLAP data model that allows it to support visual analysis of time-series data and real-time streaming feeds emanating from Oracle CEP. By connecting and federating data from real-time streaming data sources, traditional data warehouses and tick databases, Panopticon enables its customers to interact with all of the relevant information in their data environments. In addition, Panopticon’s data visualizations are designed to allow business users to rapidly understand and interpret the output of Oracle CEP and quickly make informed and insightful decisions.

Panopticon 5.9.2 expands the company’s support for specialized data sources used in capital markets applications and adds new filtering and analytical capabilities.

Stockholm, Sweden, January 17, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that it has released Version 5.9.2 of its popular interactive visual data analysis systems. The suite of products includes: Panopticon Developer SDK for Java and .NET; Panopticon EX enterprise application; and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit (RDK) which combines the fast deployment capabilities of the EX product with the code-level embedding capabilities of the Developer SDK.

Banks, hedge funds, mutual funds, and other financial services firms make extensive use of the data visualization capabilities of Panopticon products to analyze risk, sensitivities, liquidity, P&L and compliance, and provide managers with informed views of market movements, trading activity and exposures. Capital markets firms often embed Panopticon capabilities into their own proprietary systems using the company’s Developer SDK or the Rapid Development Kit.

The 5.9.2 release includes native support for several of the most popular Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems and tick databases on the market, including:

• Thomson Reuters Velocity Analytics. The new connector allows clients to directly access the stored tick history through Velocity Analytics pipelines and analyze it in a visual context using Panopticon analytical dashboards. Thomson Reuters is a reseller for Panopticon products and assists clients with implementing comprehensive enterprise platforms for managing real-time and historical tick data, deriving trade and execution strategies, and generating research and analytics.
• OneTick from OneMarketData. This system combines the CEP and tick database functionality in a single system. It allows clients to run historical simulations and back-tests, develop trading and market-making strategies, build transaction-cost models, perform real-time surveillance and answer regulatory compliance requirements. Panopticon’s unique StreamCube™ OLAP data model connects directly to OneTick to provide users with effective, easy-to-interpret visualizations of the data stored in OneTick in combination with other sources.
• Oracle CEP. The Oracle CEP engine is built on industry-standards including ANSI SQL, Java, Spring DM and OSGI. It provides an open architecture for sourcing, processing, and publishing complex events throughout the enterprise and supports a visual development environment as well as standard Java-based tooling. Panopticon’s data visualizations are perfectly designed to allow people to understand and interpret the output of Oracle CEP and make informed, insightful decisions quickly.
• Sybase Event Stream Processor (ESP). This is a CEP platform for rapid development and deployment of business critical applications that analyze and act on high velocity and high volume streaming data – in real-time. Sybase ESP provides users with the ability to monitor, detect, analyze, and respond to events as they occur. As a real-time intelligence solution, Sybase ESP and Panopticon data visualization tools facilitate a faster and more immediate time to action as well as the power to make the most opportune corrective, profitable, competitive or value add decisions.

Visualization-enabled system allows traders and managers to view intraday P&L, exposures and other key parameters using interactive analytical dashboards.

Stockholm, Sweden, November 17, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Sky Road, a leading provider of innovative cloud-based solutions to the financial services industry, has integrated Panopticon visual data analysis tools into its Swap Trader application as well as its innovative Motion application platform.

With the evolution of the swaps market structure in response to regulatory mandates, market participants require a solution that can quickly on-board and connect their swap trading desks to new execution venues in a cost effective manner. Sky Road's Swap Trader is a hosted solution blending execution, order management and portfolio management for fixed income strategies. With the integration of Panopticon’s data visualization tools, traders and managers are able to view intraday P&L, exposures and other key parameters using interactive analytical dashboards.

In addition to Swap Trader, Panopticon's data visualization tools have been integrated into Motion, Sky Road’s platform that has been built from the ground up to be cloud-enabled delivering an open, secure and scalable solution. Leveraging a core infrastructure that includes market data, analytics engines and connectivity to trading partners, firms can now have tailored applications assembled for the cloud using Sky Road’s Motion Studio. With the addition of Panopticon’s Developer SDK within Motion, users have access to interactive filtering and other tools that vastly improve analytical efficiency by reducing the amount of time required to isolate outliers and expose trends in large amounts of real-time data.

Collaboration to deliver comprehensive visual monitoring and analytics solution for tick data.

Stockholm, Sweden, October 24, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that OneMarketData, LLC, a leader in tick data management and analytics is partnering with Panopticon to bring Panopticon’s real-time data visualizations to its OneTick CEP and Database (OneTick), the single solution for tick data management, analytics and complex event processing (CEP).The combination allows traders and analysts to make OneTick queries that can easily traverse massive volumes of data and spot correlations and outliers.

OneTick is optimized for high-frequency time series data, including trading and market price feeds. It captures, compresses, archives and provides uniform access to global historical data, providing a single solution for tick data management that spans both historical and real-time. Panopticon’s unique StreamCube™ OLAP data model connects directly to OneTick to provide users with effective, easy-to-interpret visualizations of the data stored in OneTick in combination with other sources. The system reduces the amount of time required for people to identify opportunities and issues allowing them to take more time to develop actionable strategies. 

The collaboration will deliver comprehensive visual monitoring and analytics solution to Portware customers.

Stockholm, Sweden, June 15, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that it has partnered with Portware to bring custom data visualization technology to Portware’s suite of global, multi-asset trading systems. This partnership gives Portware clients a powerful and highly flexible visual analytics solution that allows traders to intelligently monitor any real-time or historical trading data.

Portware’s trading solutions combine advanced trading and analytics technology, access to all global liquidity providers and a highly flexible trade architecture that supports firms’ complex workflow integration requirements. The company’s suite of products, including Portware Enterprise, Portware FX and Strategy Server, has been deployed at leading hedge funds, asset managers and broker dealers worldwide.

Callidus leverages Panopticon's rapid visual analysis platform to drive next generation sales performance analytics.

Stockholm, Sweden, June 7, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD), the leader in Sales Performance Management (SPM) has launched its new Sales Performance Visualizer solution. The new product utilizes embedded Panopticon data visualization tools and extends the Callidus Monaco On Demand SPM suite's Reporting and Analytics platform with a robust visualization tool that provides real-time visibility into large sales and financial performance data sets across the enterprise. In addition to embedding Panopticon in their SPM solution, Callidus can resell Panopticon EX to their clients for enterprise-wide deployment to further amplify the value and improve utilization of their Callidus systems.

"With the new Sales Performance Visualizer solution, sales managers can rapidly visualize large data sets in real time," said Leslie Stretch, President and CEO, Callidus Software. "The new solution makes it easy for sales leaders to analyze trends and outliers in large-scale, complex sales and financial data spanning multiple sales channels and regions. This is a powerful addition to our sales performance suite and drives further value in our market-leading analytics platform."

Imagine employs the Panopticon Developer SDK to tightly integrate analytical dashboards into its portfolio and risk management system

Stockholm, Sweden, May 16, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Imagine Software, one of its key OEM partners, used the Panopticon Developer SDK to embed information visualizations into the latest major release of the Imagine portfolio and risk management system. Imagine serves the needs of hedge funds, asset management firms, pension funds, investment banks, prime brokers, market-makers, and sovereign wealth funds.

In addition to new interactive data visualization capabilities enabled by Panopticon, Imagine's latest release includes enhanced risk analytics, support for new asset classes, advanced charting, and customized reporting capabilities. It is designed to help clients respond more effectively to key market trends such as sustained market volatility, the need for advanced reporting capabilities that can help attract investor inflows, and address the necessity for diversified risk management methodologies.

New Panopticon visualizations allow traders and quantitative researchers to analyze and monitor any real-time or historical data series available via Thomson Reuters Velocity Analytics.

Stockholm, Sweden, May 11, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Thomson Reuters is embedding Panopticon data visualization capabilities into the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics. These new capabilities are available both as a managed service within Elektron, the firm's high performance real-time network and hosting environment, or deployed directly at client sites. The fully integrated high-performance, low latency platform enables firms to move seamlessly from strategy development and testing to deployment and monitoring.

Increased global adoption of automated trading strategies and competitive markets have presented alpha-seeking firms with significant challenges in normalizing, processing and capitalizing on market anomalies across the vast amounts of real-time and historical information required to power trading decisions. By integrating Panopticon software into the Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics, Thomson Reuters will deliver a powerful solution that combines rich content and analytics with data visualization tools that allow clients to display real-time and historical data in a variety of visually intuitive formats.

Panopticon 5.8 provides improved support for capital markets requirements, including enhanced visualization of real-time streaming feeds and analytics functions for time series historical data.

Stockholm, Sweden, April 19, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that it has released Version 5.8 of its widely deployed suite of OLAP-enabled information visualization software products. The suite of products includes: Panopticon Developer SDK for Java and .NET; Panopticon EX enterprise application; and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit (RDK) which combines the fast deployment capabilities of the EX product with the code-level embedding capabilities of the Developer SDK.

A new interface enables Kx and Panopticon users to perform fast, in-depth visual analysis on market data and identify trends and trading patterns in near real-time.

Stockholm, Sweden, April 11, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Kx Systems, the leader in high-performance database and time-series analysis. The combination of Kx's ultra high-speed processing with Panopticon's leading visual analytics makes it possible to visualize vast quantities of trade data in real-time.

The new interface will enable financial institutions to analyze data, and visualize patterns and trends far quicker than before. This is because the human eye can identify and process visual information far quicker than columns of numbers (such as Excel spreadsheets). Users will be able to process, analyze and visualize vast quantities of trade data in near real-time, using Panopticon's exceptionally fast interface to Kx. The ability to drill down very quickly, and switch between a visual and numerical representation of data is extremely valuable in recognizing whether anomalies are just blips – which can be ignored – or patterns which offer valuable trading opportunities or represent potential risks.