7 December 2005
IntegraSolv partners with B2BITS for end-to-end monitoring of electronic trading systems with Owl™
New York, December 7, 2005 - Today at the Bond
Market Association's 10th Annual Fixed-Income Summit & Expo on
Technology and Electronic Trading in New York City, IntegraSolv and
B2BITS announced successful integration of the Owl™ Application
Operations Center with B2BITS' high performance FIX engines.
"We are excited about B2BITS' selection of Owl™ for end-to-end
monitoring of electronic trading," said Arthur Frankstein, Vice
President of Sales and Marketing at IntegraSolv. "Focus on
end-to-end performance and availability is a key to achieving
competitive advantage in electronic trading. Owl™'s direct
instrumentation provides electronic trading performance information
that can be reliably used to provide zero-downtime results."
B2BITS uses the IntegraSolv Owl™ Application Operations Center
to monitor the complete line of B2BITS FIX engines as well as other
B2BITS electronic trading products including FIX Antenna C++ Fix
Engine, FIX Antenna Java Fix Engine, FixEdge Fix Engine, and FIX
Antenna .NET Fix Engine. Monitoring B2BITS products with Owl™ was
implemented within days.
FIX engines from B2BITS are key components of trading
infrastructures capable of processing over 18,000 messages per
second on a single CPU. Customers solutions that use B2BITS'
products often include trading systems, order management, and
market access systems that were developed internally or purchased
from other software vendors. While most systems do some of their
own internal monitoring, end-to-end monitoring of transaction flows
and instant status of the ability of IT to support trading are
typically not available. Problems are often identified by customers
and resolution is frequently challenged by the lack of coordination
from multiple teams. In electronic trading, where downtime and
performance degradation is equivalent to loss of opportunities and
reputation, early problem detection, prevention of downtime and
speedy resolution are paramount. Informing the business users of
the status of the key systems that support them, such as status and
performance of exchange connectivity, freshness of market data, and
accuracy of positions, enables them to switch to other execution
alternatives and raises the level of confidence in the systems.
Owl™ brings out the health and performance of the trading
infrastructure. Owl™'s graphical consoles allow trading support,
development, data center operations, business and IT management to
see the current status of individual trading systems components and
their topology. Once the health or performance degradation is
detected, users can navigate to the source of the problem in the
application itself, connected upstream or downstream applications,
or IT infrastructure. Traders and business operations can see the
health of the trading systems and the impact on their ability to
conduct business and chose alternative execution venues. The health
information can be used to re-route execution or restore
services.
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