Development Environment And Training

IS.Teledata Platform Open To Developers

Financial service providers throughout Europe can benefit from IS.Teledata's web and delivery technologies when developing their own market data solutions. IS.Developer Solutions offers access to market data and advanced functionalities for use in proprietary and integrated systems. In addition to building and operating financial applications as managed services, IS.Teledata thus allows customers to design their own custom systems based on a standardised platform. Project managers and developers can build up the required skills in new training courses covering all aspects, from development to involved content and project issues.

With IS.Developer Solutions,

• banks can enrich their in-house legacy systems with IS.Teledata’s data and products,
• retail and private banks can distribute market data and functionality to their asset managers and advisor networks,
• issuers can take advantage of the professional presentation of their instruments, complete with charts and rankings,
• market data providers can offer their contents on IS.Teledata’s platforms.

Flexibility Put Into Practice

Several customers have already adopted IS.Developer Solutions to build and operate their own intranet and Internet solutions. A major European bank uses IS.Teledata’s technology to supply a multi-channel platform with market data and financial applications for its corporate web sites and information systems. The customer thus benefits from a development environment that offers standardised access to both: market data from various asset classes and business logic for asset class-specific output to users. Another online bank relies on IS.Teledata’s technology for the development and operation of a custom web solution for retail customers and security advisors.

Now, Cortal Consors has employed the technologies to benefit from synergies in a coherent platform to serve universal data and various national contents to sites in different countries (see cover story).

To help financial service providers to build custom applications in the most efficient way, a comprehensive new training program targets different audiences and addresses all involved issues.

Training Courses: Efficiency Requires Knowledge

To ensure that customers make the most of the solutions they develop using IS.Developer Solutions, IS.Teledata offers expert training courses:

• Developers benefit from a comprehensive catalogue of courses, conveying the development skills and financial knowledge needed to build financial market data solutions based on IS.Teledata technology.
• Project managers learn about the specifics of IS.Teledata's technology and how to successfully manage IT projects using IS.Teledata’s platform.
• Product managers and marketing specialists acquire a thorough understanding of applications based on IS.Teledata’s platform that allows the definition, development and demonstration of products.
• The complete range of courses covers all requirements to conceptualise, develop, roll out and operate IS.Teledata solutions successfully. Technical courses introduce IS.Teledata’s Market Data Gateway (MDG) platform and cover the technical tools offered by IS.Teledata for using the platform, such as the application programming interfaces (APIs) and the software developer kits (SDK) for Java, PHP and .NET. Content courses delve into the legal and operational issues of the financial market data available on IS.Teledata’s platform, its sources and providers. eFinance courses cover questions arising during projects which develop custom applications using IS.Teledata’s platform.

Training courses conclude with written or practical exams. Certification is available to qualified participants for most of the courses. Courses will be scheduled according to participant requests. Developers, project managers and product managers who are interested contact are asked to their account managers at IS.Teledata.