Managing Market Data

Asset Control, a provider of investment-data-management solutions to the financial-services industry, has released two additions to the AC Business Suite of user solutions.

The solutions AC Surveyor and AC Explorer, respectively, provide Web-based and desktop-based research and analytical applications for use by traders, risk managers, portfolio managers and other financial professionals. They also serve as development environments for creating applications customized to users' business roles. Both AC Surveyor and AC Explorer enable users to view market-data elements for analysis, comparison and graphing. Both solutions offer alternatives to third-party-research terminals, leveraging the cleansed data that is already maintained in Asset Control in-house or outsourced platforms.

AC Surveyor is used to provide access to market-data analysis for investment researchers. It offers Web accessibility to institutional users at any location. In addition to its out-of-the-box page templates, AC Surveyor offers a development environment for Web applications.

The contents, look and feel of its Web pages can be defined through XML files by staff, offering data sets, graphing and analytical results for the specific requirements of different user groups. This development framework includes both security features and access to a library of components, such as cross-currency tables and various types of graphs and searching components.