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Hosted Solutions

For the Collection, Distribution and Management of Financial Content

There is growing interest among financial institutions to outsource their content management to a hosted solution. Reasons frequently cited are better service, ease of use and lower costs.

Over the last few years, pressures to reduce operating costs by financial institutions and other consumers of market data, has focused attention on the true total cost of ownership (TOC) in the collection, distribution and management of financial content. As markets become more real-time, where customers expect to click and trade in seconds, demand has increased for real-time financial content and interactive services, both internally and for customers. Increased transaction volumes have only added to the problem.

Consequently, more services and sources are required to stay competitive and costs are going up. The five major cost components in managing real-time financial content include;

1. data, both sourced internally and purchased from market data vendors,
2. software platforms, tools and applications,
3. hardware and network infrastructure,
4. physical data center centers to house it, and
5. human resources to manage, support, and run it.

The business of content is complex and expensive.

Overall, customers experiences with hosted solutions have been excellent. Studies on hosted solutions show the following benefits:

• Hosted solutions are easy to implement.
• Hosted solutions are easy to maintain.
• Hosted solutions are flexible use and pay for what you need.
• Hosted solutions provide lower total cost of ownership.
• Hosted solutions provide good overall value.
• Hosted applications are easy to learn and train.
• Hosted solutions are easy to administer and manage.
• Hosted solutions provide the functionality needed most.
• Hosted solutions are convenient.
• Hosted solutions are reliable.

In fact, customers who have experienced hosted solutions recommend that even if costs were not a factor, many of them would still have preferred a hosted solution.

The business model of hosted solutions is well suited for financial content services. Its popularity is inevitable because the cost/benefits are overwhelming.

Gmarkets, GPS for the Financial Markets

Gmarkets provides an end-to-end, hosted solution to manage the collection, distribution and management of financial content. The company specializes in real-time data and applications for the capital markets.

The tagline, The GPS for the Financial Markets, includes the acronym GPS, Global Positioning System. It represents the company's services, which allow customers to know where they are, and helps them to navigate to where they are going. Basically, the philosophy is to offer customers complete control and flexible deployment of their financial content. That is, what data is available, who has access to it, and when and how they use it.

The hosted solution has extensive monitoring capabilities. There are software probes throughout the system to monitor the usage and health of all components of the environment. These tools allow users to manage and monitor the entire information flow from content source to the end-users who are consuming the data.

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