{"id":522,"date":"2019-06-25T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ec-projects.co.uk\/intersystems-uki\/?p=522"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T09:04:01","slug":"intersystems-data-platform-in-a-fortune-100-investment-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ec-projects.co.uk\/intersystems-uki\/intersystems-data-platform-in-a-fortune-100-investment-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"InterSystems Data Platform in a Fortune 100 Investment Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>CHALLENGE<\/h6>\n<p>The development manager at a top global investment bank ($39.2BN revenues) needed to find a solution to meet the following demands of his organization\u2019s business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The customer management application must support the ability to answer ad-hoc queries about an end customer\u2019s assets<\/li>\n<li>The same system must support the ability to report traceability to show that trades were in compliance<\/li>\n<li>The customer management application must scale dynamically and respond to queries in milliseconds, not seconds<\/li>\n<li>The underlying database must be able to handle big data volumes (TBs) of trade data from across the firm<\/li>\n<li>The underlying system must scale with increasing demands of velocity, variety, and volume of data<\/li>\n<li>The system must reduce infrastructure costs\n<\/ul>\n<h6>TECHNICAL CHALLENGE<\/h6>\n<p>The firm\u2019s data was archived into a Hadoop data lake. The architecture had the following limitations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The data lake was good for basic historical analysis but could not support real-time, current data streams<\/li>\n<li>Performance was barely acceptable and had limitations on scaling out<\/li>\n<li>The application could not provide data drill down for analysis reporting (Hive only supported simple SQL queries, no joins)<\/li>\n<li>The application could not support more advanced, analytical needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre style=\"font-style: normal;\">SOLUTION<\/pre>\n<h6>INTERSYSTEMS DATA PLATFORM FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>The client deployed InterSystem Data Platform for financial services to address both the business and technical challenges<\/li>\n<li>HDFS was integrated with the data platform to combine terabytes of historical data with current transactions<\/li>\n<li>The data platform\u2019s persistent store and cached data layer was architected to support the needs of different lines of business. A single deployed reference architecture supported ad-hoc user defined queries with high performance<\/li>\n<li>InterSystems Data Platform supports complex SQL queries across all applications while meeting SLAs<\/li>\n<li>InterSystems Data Platform for financial services uniquely combines shared-nothing and shared- everything architectures. It proved to be the only option in the market that could provide the required performance at scale<\/li>\n<li>The reduced costs requirement was met because InterSystems data platform\u2019s \u2018cloud-friendly architecture\u2019 does not require specialized hardware. 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