Content Integration Platform

ASPone’s Content Integration Platform (CIP) product suite provides professional, cost effective solutions for real-time financial market data integration, distribution, storage, management and presentation requirements.

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The CIP provides scalable, resilient and secure access to financial market data from both internal and third party sources. Distribution over LAN, WAN, wireless networks or the Internet and presentation in native clients, spreadsheets, wireless devices, web-browsers and custom applications using open APIs is supported. CIP software components can be used in isolation or in conjunction with existing in-house applications or third-party Market Data Systems.

System Components

Integration: CIP integration components (feed handlers) support the reception, manipulation and forwarding of a wide range of financial news and data sources irrespective of their physical transport mediums, software protocol or architectural implementation.

Distribution: the ASPone CIP has been designed to support high data throughput routing across hundreds of input and output connections using IP connectivity. Individual system components are connected together and communicate and share data over a high speed messaging bus.

Storage: received market data and news items are stored to a high speed data cache and are available for immediate retrieval by ASPone real-time CIP presentation components. For historical data, our storage solutions support the efficient writing and retrieval of data items in conjunction with a number of commercial databases, at user configurable time intervals.

Management: the ASPone CIP product suite provides an extensive browser-based administrative user interface for comprehensive system, component, data and user management. Users accessing the system have to provide individual credentials and be authenticated, all subsequent requests for services and data being governed by a strict entitlement system.

Presentation: the presentation of information available within the CIP, to client applications and internal and third-party systems, is through use of open APIs, which are available as TCP/IP, C++ and Java.

Display Products: desktop applications, including I-Terminal, the ASPone market data terminal and I-Calc, our MS Excel Add-In leverage the full power of the native operating system or host application to provide blistering performance and a familiar user interface. I-Terminal provides the ability to display individual quotes, quote lists, chains, pages and charts.