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For the Chief Technology Officer
Armanta Benefits |
Business demands rapid delivery of robust solutions
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Leverage integrated, re-usable technology components such as live caching, grid computing and bi-directional business |
| Business demands highly flexible technologies to address constantly evolving market needs |
Technology designed to allow default behaviors at all levels to be modified/augmented by the customer – model behaviors to specific needs |
| Rapid growth in data volumes |
Grid computing proven to scale in the most complex data and computational environments |
| Integration of multiple, disparate data sources |
Integrate disparate data sources from their present locations, removing the need for a costly data integration exercise |
| Budget and resource constraints |
Deliver highly customized solutions for 10% to 20% of the cost of building from scratch, allocate resources to proprietary development as opposed to development of non-proprietary, re-usable components |
| Modeling complex instruments and complex business processes is difficult with rigid vendor products |
There are no fixed assumptions about types or behaviors of financial products, therefore users can model complex financial instruments and business processes as needs dictate |
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For the Chief Investment Officer/ Investment Executive
Challenges |
Armanta Benefits |
Efficient interaction with complex data sets and calculations is difficult
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Navigate challenges such as hierarchical portfolios, strategy tracking, etc. with an easy to use, powerful user interface |
| Existing technologies cannot respond quickly to constantly evolving business requirements |
Greatly reduced development timeframes create a more flexible, agile development process |
| Disparate in house applications with excel add ins create risk, inefficiency |
Integrated environment brings all information, calculation, and investment processes in one place |
| Direct investment professionals efforts toward value-added analysis |
Powerful what-if environment enables the analysis of any type of modification on any aspect of your investment process |
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For the Chief Financial Officer/ Chief Executive Officer
Armanta Benefits |
Large investment required up front for Technology before solution is proven to meet business objectives
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Initial deliverables in 6 to 8 weeks means no large commitment of time or money before results are seen |
Tough economic conditions necessitate budget cuts and project delays |
Deliver highly customized solutions for 10% to 20% of the cost of building from scratch |
| Inconsistent data and methodologies used to generate business decisions |
Integration of business processes enables all aspects of a business to work with common information and calculations |
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For the Chief Risk Officer/ Chief Compliance Officer
Armanta Benefits |
Lack of enterprise view of risk
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Incorporation of data from multiple sources and geographies enables true enterprise view of risk. |
Obtain ad-hoc view of market, credit and operational risk exposure to a particular entity, sector, issuer, etc. |
A powerful business intelligence layer and a flexible user interface allows users to apply advanced calculations and easily navigate complex sets of hierarchical data |
Lack of system performance causing delays in analysis |
Grid computing capabilities provides scalability and the analysis of extremely large amounts of data |
Risk inherent with user maintained spreadsheets within risk & compliance |
Integrated environment brings all information, calculation, and investment processes in one place |
| Inability to easily obtain multiple permutations of data and apply ‘what-if’ tests against these data sets |
Provides for any data view to be placed in a ‘Sandbox’ for what-if analysis. This ‘Sandbox’ can be user specific or shared with a group |
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