Introduction
Ipreo's business is built on a foundation of superior technology. The technology behind our platforms was created from the beginning to meet the demands of the world's largest and most demanding financial services companies in the global capital markets.
From the start, we recognized the large scale of our opportunities and set out to create a highly robust, best-of-breed physical and systems architecture that would constantly keep us ahead of the curve in the face of a complex market and tightening regulations.
Our focus on superior technology has not wavered throughout our growth, and we continue to invest heavily to ensure that we offer - and operate on - leading edge systems and platforms. The benefits of this commitment are passed along to our clients and the broader marketplace thanks to our ease of deployment and adoption through our ASP hosting model.
Our technology competency excels in four core areas, Hosting, Software, Security and Support. Not only do our customers demand the highest performance in each of these faculties, but we have also proactively adapted to different needs in different markets in order to supply choice to customers through a variety of solutions.
Hosting
Our 'On Demand', or hosted model, is different from other vendors in one important respect: our ability to meet the needs of ALL firms, from the smallest boutiques to the largest investment banks.
In many markets, the on-demand model is perceived to be most appealing to small to medium size firms who do not have the expertise or budget to deal with the overheads of hosting their own systems, whereas larger firms who do have the necessary resources demand a locally hosted solution because they prefer to have control over operational issues and data security. However, because Ipreo's systems were designed by professionals who understood these challenges, our hosted model was created to be on a par, or in many cases more robust than any firm would ever create on their own. In this way, many of the world's largest banks trust us with the operation of their mission critical applications, and smaller firms benefit from the confidence that they can choose a hosted model and still have excellence in resilience, security and operations.
Customer-Hosted
Despite the thoroughness of our hosted solution, we recognize that customers may still have policies or preferences that lead them to host the software themselves, and so many of our products adapt seamlessly to this model also.
This compatibility is designed in from the start so that installation, support, and upgrade cycles are low-friction and predictable, minimizing the overhead on the client's IT department. Ipreo's systems are often focused on inter-firm communication, and the hosted model does not complicate this goal, as communications architectures are all firewall-friendly and audited internally and externally to the toughest standards.
Support
We know that the best systems and the best information are useless without dedicated, world class support.
Our technology infrastructure is engineered to meet the most demanding requirements of transparency and resilience, and all our applications are monitored around the clock from a Network Operations Center in New York.
Software
At Ipreo we pride ourselves on the quality of our engineering staff. We have over 200 developers in 9 locations, tapping into talent around the world to deliver quality products that manage millions of data points and billions of dollars a day in capital transactions.
We are specialists in transactional systems, having developed platforms for the markets going back over 20 years, but we are also market leaders in analytical software, providing databases and tools of unparalleled accuracy and richness, designed in-house and resulting from years industry expertise. Our long partnership with Microsoft has yielded a reference solution in the industry for the entire .NET stack, but we also leverage best-of-breed solutions from across the technology industry to maximize value in our applications across the product range.
Security
Our customers do not give up control of their (or their customer's) information without absolute trust that we operate our systems to the same standards of care that they do, and that trust is reflected in everything that Ipreo does.
We are held to the highest standards internally by our policies and our culture, and externally by our clients, their expectations, and the industries ever tightening controls and standards. Our dedicated security team is active in all areas of the company, because we realize that information security is not merely a matter of maintaining firewalls appropriately, or using SSL on our applications; information security at Ipreo spans our corporate offices, our people, our applications, our datacenters and our interactions within the company, with our suppliers and with our customers. Our reputation is our franchise, and our clients benefit from our commitment to safeguarding it by our integrity at all levels of the firm and in our systems.