Effective Monitoring & Analysis of Risk, Performance and Attribution
 People working in fast-paced trading environments within buy-side and sell-side organizations must struggle to cope with data that moves throughout the market at increasingly high speeds. The cost of making bad trading decisions is very high, and this places even more demands on managers who are responsible for the activities of traders and brokers.
Panopticon developed its Visual Business Intelligence (VBI) tools provide C level executives, fund managers, traders, and others with the monitoring and analysis tools they need to conduct profitable business while maintaining a close eye on risk exposures.
Our VBI platform combines:
 Visualize real-time streaming
data feeds
Panopticon's software is completely unique in its ability to support interactive, visual analysis of true real-time streaming data feeds from Reuters, Bloomberg and Sonic MQ message queues. This is one reason the world’s major financial institutions rely on Panopticon Visual Business Intelligence tools to improve decision-making, reporting and analysis capabilities.
The idea of “real-time” can be very confusing, since virtually all software companies that do visualizations say they can handle “real-time” requirements. However, what most of them mean is that their software goes out and requests an update from an external data source when the data is needed. For example, a system might make an update request in order to generate a new graph. The system pulls the updated data from the external source and uses it in the display – at the moment when the data was pulled. The data is accurate as of that exact moment, but it becomes out-of-date immediately since no further updates are available until a complete refresh is done. What we mean by “streaming real-time” is that data is constantly being pushed into our system and therefore into the visualization by an external source – not at a regular interval, but instantly, as-it-happens and on a tick-by-tick basis.
Advanced visualizations combined with Panopticon’s StreamCube™ technology
provide a perfect way to monitor and analyze finanical information
Panopticon has developed a set of highly interactive information visualizations that are well-suited for monitoring and analyzing financial information. They are very flexible and easy to understand — and they allow users to filter out less interesting data to focus on important outliers, or “slice and dice” the data to look at the same information from many different perspectives.
Panopticon’s visualizations go well beyond the capabilities of other systems on the market since the visualizations themselves are only the tip of the iceberg. Panopticon’s software is a complete Visual Business Intelligence platform developed in response to the particular challenges of managing financial data. The system incorporates our StreamCube™ OLAP technology and our high performance in-memory data model. This supports access to data from multiple sources (relational databases, proprietary systems, OLAP-servers, and even streaming data feeds).
Our StreamCube™ data model provides the fast analysis, aggregation and calculation functions needed to make Treemaps truly useful in a financial services environment. The Panopticon data model allows for continuous updates — it is specifically designed to handle true real-time streaming updates with very high levels of performance. It supports fast analysis, re-grouping and filtering since the system does not require a rebuild of the entire OLAP cube every time the data changes. When events in the data stream occur, or when the user interface interactively queries the data, the data model performs the calculations necessary to display the information on the fly.
Using Visual Business Intelligence technology to solve practical problems
in financial services
Panopticon Visual Business Intelligence can add value in several ways to financial services applications. We have developed several examples that explain how you can use our Visual Business Intelligence tools to solve practical problems in financial services institutions.
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Provides a highly graphical, interactive view of risk data across the entire enterprise, including all of their regions, offices, desks, and books. Supports the ability to look at risk levels based on sectors and industries, as well as by specific instruments that may be held in a number of books. |
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Gives managers the tools they need to quickly identify anomalies and track order activity. Oversee the risk profile of all trading activities across the entire enterprise. See a global view of trading activities on a single screen, understand exactly the status of orders, and see how well each trade is performing by broker, strategy, country, industry, and any other parameter.
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Supports collaboration within organizations as well as presentation of complex performance and risk data in intuitive ways. Allows users to understand precisely the drivers of performance and risk — much faster than is possible with traditional methods — and enables business users to take immediate action on important findings.
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The challenge faced by asset managers is to pick the winners. For many this involves researching and evaluating huge amounts of information. At the same time, asset managers need to meet internal and external compliance regulations. |
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Do you require a fast and efficient method of distributing your research data to clients? Do you need to get maximum value from your real-time streaming data? Many of the world's financial institutions have been using Panopticon every day for years to quickly access and gain value from their market data. |
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Organizations want to be closer to their customers. With good customer relations, it is possible to differentiate the quality and speed of services in increasingly competitive offerings. |
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