In today's fast-moving financial markets every millisecond counts.
As market information triggers trading decisions the times between
trigger and trade are crucial to profit or loss. A recent TABB study reports that for an agency brokerage each 5
millisecond of latency in accepting and acknowledging FIX orders
corresponds to 4 million USD in losses.
When Complexity Blinds
In most modern trading environments there is a complex mix of
algorithms, multi-threaded and networked software components,
messaging backbones, in-memory caches, databases, hardware, local
area networks, wide area networks, communication links, and
increasingly, dynamically scalable grid deployment environments.
When Traceability is Key
Velocimetrics thinks the way your business thinks, lets you
measure your true business KPIs, helps you diagnose problems, and
alerts you when things aren't running to plan. We track business flows through the internals of application
software, across the inputs and outputs of "black-box"
systems, across networks and around the World. Velocimetrics
correlates those business flows to identify items as they pass
through the each point of the infrastructure to provide millisecond
or better resolution of travel time. We tie together cause and effect, matching items as they are
transformed and alternative identifiers are assigned. In this way we
build a holistic picture that can be broken down to isolate problems.
Above all, Velocimetrics are captured non-invasively, ensuring
that the act of observation does not impact the system under
observation. We scale to manage enterprise volumes and the most
demanding data rates.
When Knowledge is Power
Despite, or maybe even because of recent turmoil in the financial
markets, to maximise profits, win new business or even keep the
business you've got, it's important to understand latency and other
performance characteristics of your complex systems. Traditional performance tools can only take you so far providing
islands of techno-centric data, leaving you to try to assemble the
bigger picture. Measuring, understanding, and tuning using the same performance
indicators that are critical to your business success is key.
Velocimetrics provides that insight, in real-time, as it's happening.
