DST LAUNCHES NEW VERSION OF PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SOLUTION

Posted March 18, 2008

BOSTON – Investment management solutions provider DST International (DSTi) has launched a new version of its HiPerformance solution, based on a service-oriented architecture for the best possible scalability and deployment flexibility, under a Global Operating Model.

The new model promises global and multi-office asset managers the ability to deploy a single software solution across all offices, throughout multiple time zones, while maintaining speed and flexibility. In a recent benchmark, HiPerformance calculated a month’s worth of returns at the security level for seven million portfolios on a single application server in five hours.

“The new HiPerformance has been developed in close collaboration with several of our largest and most sophisticated clients, who were seeking greater scalability to manage ever-increasing volumes, and to achieve cost reductions through efficiency gains, while retaining the rich functionality they need to properly analyze their complex investment strategies,” says Des Gallacher, Global Performance Solution Manager at DSTi. “In the current business environment where cost containment is paramount, the value proposition for IT projects must be beyond reproach. We are working closely with existing clients during our initial application roll-out, and are also seeing sales interest from prospective clients.”

The new HiPerformance is designed to remove practical scale restrictions, while providing a broad range of performance analytics, including returns, contribution, attribution, look-through analysis, risk and composite management – across all instruments, and all within a single, enterprise solution.

Editor's Note: A comprehensive report covering current challenges in performance measurement appears in the March 31, 2008 issue of Global Investment Technology, available to subscribers. For subscription information email: info@globalinv.com.