Sybase, Inc

 

      For one of the world's largest financial institutions, we designed, installed and configured two Global Trading Systems for Equities Convertible Bonds and Equities Derivatives using Sybase Replication Server in peer-to-peer mode. These two systems have now been successfully implemented, providing the only truly global trading Systems using three-tier architecture. The established data centres are in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York. Although challenging to put in place these systems have brought a number of major benefits to the client. These are:

 

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High availability for users

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Reliability

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Distributed Processing

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Scalability

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Reduced cost

 

    This means the Company has a reduced load on its network; faster application response; the ability to plan downtime while still providing the business with fully operational systems; the avoidance of hardware corruption problems and finally the ability to scale up and down depending on requirements and user base.

 

    The savings in cost have been substantial due to:

 

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 Reduction in the number of ongoing business support staff (controllers, static data administrators etc)

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 Reduction in the number of local IT support by a factor of 2

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 Elimination of support cost in terms of a need for local Database Administrators and Centralisation of application upgrade.

 

     On the technical side we focused on issues of resolving conflicts, deadlocks and blocking issues

    

    We provided one to one and relevant training for local application support, developers and database administrators in all aspects of maintenance, monitoring and recovery.

  

     Developed a GUI front end for Application support to display the volume of replicated data, the status of Stables queues, the health of individual replication servers and their corresponding data servers and general status of replication system for non technical staff.