SD provides cost–effective, scalable solutions, adapted to the specific needs of customers across the buy- and sell-side

Why?

• SD's solutions are tailored for all sectors: banks, corporations, fund managers, fund administrators and custodians and auditors
  
  
• The solutions are designed for deployment across all departments, for use by all practitioners – including traders, sales, treasurers, risk controllers and portfolio managers
  
  
• By offering a modular set of solutions, SD can meet a company’s specific needs with a tailored, personalised service
  
  
• Web-delivered, fully outsourced solution implemented securely and efficiently from a global network of state-of-the-art data centres
  
  
• SD is a SaaS (Software as a Service) pioneer, delivering rich, live and secure applications over the web for ease of integration and rapid time to market
  
  
• No need for local updates and upgrades, which are all transparently handled by SD
  
  
• Open standards and technologies enable easy STP connectivity to existing client and third party systems
  
  
• Intuitive, user-friendly GUI, customised to the user’s specific needs

Customer benefits

• Web-based service allows rapid roll-out to bank’s users, white labeling for top customers, and integration to existing systems
  
  
• Ease of distribution, access, integration and roll-out to customers
  
  
• SD solutions are fully-integrated with other systems, platforms and exchanges via flexible protocols
  
  
• Reduced overall IT spend and time to market
  
  
• SaaS offloads a great deal of IT pains incurred by software consumers in the traditional client/server model, leaving IT personnel to focus on improving the day-to-day technical operations of a company
  
  
• Removes problem with in-house or traditional installed systems where the cost of infrastructure to keep pace with rapid increase in the complexity of traded instruments is prohibitive
  
  
• Open architecture enables users to integrate with existing flows to preserve investment in high-value legacy systems
  
  
• Scalability greatly reduces overall IT spend and time to market