Aegis Software Announces White Paper for Benchmarking EMS Performance
Carrie Gallagher / Aegis Software Inc.
7 Jun 2007 8:17AM ET
NEW YORK, June 7, 2007 – Today at the Profit & Loss Forex Network Conference, Aegis Software Inc. announced the availability of their newest white paper, “Benchmarking Performance of Execution Management Systems (EMS)”. Aimed at providing insights into factors that affect performance, the paper focuses on the issues of throughput and latency in today’s millisecond-sensitive trading environment. The paper is available by request at the company’s website.
The paper explores several trade-offs that can positively and negatively impact performance, including: algorithm development, deployment architecture, API interface, configuration considerations, application mix, message storage/retrieval, hardware, data access, programming languages and recovery/backup procedures.
“The raison d’être of the EMS marketplace is to provide high performance, flexible market access that is largely unavailable from the slower, more cumbersome OMS’s”, said Norm Friedman, Vice President of Aegis Software. “Therefore, traders shopping for an EMS system need to thoroughly understand performance considerations and should be able to comprehend how the system will work under-the-covers. Most importantly, they must demand hard, verifiable performance statistics that are repeatable in their own environment. Our white paper educates prospective buyers on what to ask and what to look for.”
About Aegis Software
Since 1994, Aegis Software has been creating powerful, sophisticated and easy to use trading software and services for financial companies that demand performance, robustness, availability, and flexibility. Aegis is the developer of Athena, an algorithmic execution management system (EMS) for equities, options, futures, and foreign exchange trading. In addition to trading solutions, Aegis’ testing products – Exchange Simulator, Client Simulator and T3 – are considered the industry standard for automated, regression, interactive and performance testing of FIX-based trading systems. For more information visit www.aegisoft.com or contact info@aegisoft.com.
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Media Contact:
Carrie Gallagher
Aegis Software Inc.
212-651-9490
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