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Mindwell Newsletter October 2008

Mindwell provides advanced integration, implementation and development services for FRONT ARENA users worldwide. Our team of PRIME, OMNI and SoftBroker specialists helps you design, develop and maintain a FRONT ARENA installation tailored to your trading and back office processing requirements.
As a Sungard Gold Partner with a large team of FRONT ARENA consultants, we are uniquely positioned to help you harness the versatility of FRONT ARENA using the entire range of extension tools and integration technologies provided by the system.

 

 

In focus
Upgrading to FRONT ARENA 4
The FRONT ARENA 4 track release is a major functional and technological step in the evolution of the FRONT ARENA system. Mindwell collaborates with Sungard to provide guidance in the upgrade process as well as hands on services such as: • Functional migration (migration to new IRA, new Pricing application etc.)

  • PnL migration to Trading Manager
     
  • Upgrade of ARENA function-dependent applications
     
  • Reconciliation of output from the new calculation engine
     
  • Performance analysis and benchmarking
     
  • Testing and verification
     
  • Upgrade and harmonization of proprietary ADFL code

 
 

FRONT ARENA Specialists
Mindwell’s team of FRONT ARENA specialists assist users globally in developing and maintaining comprehensive FRONT ARENA solutions. Our assignments include:
  • System configuration / best practice advisory
     
  • AEF Extension development
     
  • Integration
     
  • Application Management /Upgrade services

Extension Development – ADFL / Python ACM/AEL
Our ADFL / Python specialists help you take advantage of the ARENA Extension Techniques and develop tailored solutions for your specific requirements depending on your operation as a trading desk, risk control function or back office department. Our extension developers are certified by Sungard and follow a structured QA approach for ADFL/Python/ ASQL development to optimize performance,
 

minimize memory consumption and guarantee interoperability with core FRONT ARENA functionality. FRONT ARENA Integration Our clients run FRONT ARENA as an integral part of their trading system environment to achieve an automated front-to-back transaction flow. Mindwell has a unique track record of successful FRONT ARENA integration projects covering a wide range of applications, including:
  • Back Office
     
  • 3rd-Party pricing algorithms (NumeriX)
     
  • Static Data upload and maintenance
     
  • Settlement (CSD) integration
     
  • Sub/General Ledger
     
  • FIX integration
     
  • Market place integration

 

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