Creating a web-services integration layer to combine real-time and delayed products/platforms to meet new market opportunities.

Background

Thomson Financial is a US$2 billion company that delivers e-information and integrated work solutions to the worldwide financial industry.

As a global provider of data, analysis and information tools, Thomson Financial helps companies make better decisions, be moreproductive and achieve superior financial results.

The Challenge

Thomson Financial has grown through organic and acquisition growth which caused market segments to be serviced by distinct product companies. New demands from customers to provide a unified approach to integrating Thomson Financial products and co-mingling real-time and historical market data created a need for Thomson Financial to assess the inter-operability of their product suite.

The Solution

Cyberplex provided business and technology expertise to provide an integrated solution and a strategy for enterprise integration:

• Led product strategy investigations to identify the appropriate features to meet new $2 billion real-time data market opportunities.
• Developed a market testing demo used to assess demand of the new product offer.
• Created a functional prototype that integrated multiple content sources, applications and functionality sets from Thomson Financial products.
• Provided the technology strategy for implementing an integrated platform.