Systems Integration

In the trading and financial services industry, both the functionality of applications and the ability to pull information from disparate systems are essential. YJT's developers have the knowledge and experience needed to integrate hardware, software, and data, and they are highly skilled in writing the necessary interfaces between applications, whether those are proprietary or part of an industry vendor's solution. Our developers are able to work directly with traders to analyze requirements, design, code, and test applications that are driven from your creative ideas.

Our System Integration services include the following core offerings:

Application Development

YJT helps trading and financial services firms design, develop and deliver custom applications across the full range of trading applications. These include:

  • Order Entry
  • Order Routing
  • Risk Management
  • Real-time Positioning
  • Market Data Management
  • Calculation Engines

Growing firms or departments often have needs that exceed their pool of available talent. YJT brings qualified resources with backgrounds in the industry to bear upon a variety of application types, thereby avoiding the delays in key projects.

Enterprise Architecture Reviews

Growing trading firms typically focus on quickly adding new features and capabilities and can lose sight of potential performance roadblocks. These can occur anywhere in the application's architecture, although they typically occur at the database layer, messaging layer, or in interfaces to external systems. YJT Solutions can independently analyze your systems while your team stays focused on running the business. YJT can then leverage their years of experience in this industry to design a more efficient, performant architecture that can support your growing needs.

Performance and Optimization Review and Remediation

In the face of growing market data volumes and order flow, many systems suffer from performance problems at many points.

  • Problems in the order processing components and outbound interfaces to exchanges can delay orders which can result in trades missing the market.
  • Slow fill processing can stall certain automated trading strategies.
  • Delays in market data processing can affect many downstream systems including automated trading strategies, real-time positions and risk management.

Many trading firms start small with only a handful of IT resources. Their focus is typically on "doing whatever it takes" to enable trading capabilities. If the firm is successful, more people are added but often without architectural experience or guidance. As a result, the ?do whatever it takes? mentality prevails until a poorly designed component becomes a bottleneck and causes problems. The team then either does not have the right skills or time to properly diagnose the problems or bandwidth to implement the changes. YJT can help clients on both fronts.

Enhance Testing Capabilities

Trading firms are inevitably driven by time-to-market concerns. Often that singular focus leaves a significant problem in a blind spot: application testing. As organizations and applications mature, deficiencies in this area become more apparent and have greater consequences as the impact on revenue and customer satisfaction grows.

Development groups may recognize the need for more testing but do not feel that they have the capacity to address the concern and still develop new systems. In addition, they often are not sure where to start as quality control involves more than not just testing but building testing into the application development process.

YJT Solutions is:

  • Experienced in assessing an organization's needs
  • Familiar with relevant enterprise, application and messaging architectures
  • Acutely aware of the special demands in the trading space
  • Accomplished in improving quality and reducing risk by implementing a phased-in testing approach.

Enhance Monitoring Capabilities

Off-the-shelf monitoring systems provide insight into fundamental metrics right out of the box. These include metrics like CPU utilization, network latency and disk space. More meaningful metrics provide greater insight to the client's situation. Imagine being able to track website availability and page-by-page response time or the end-to-end order response time as seen by external clients. YJT can develop components to work with each customer's trading applications to drive greater returns from their monitoring infrastructure.