The complexities of the investment process require asset managers to navigate through a minefield of fragmented data, applications and workflows. Key staff spend too much time swiveling between these applications, copy and pasting data from one to the other. As well as being highly inefficient, operational risk is also increased along with a growing likelihood of errors.

Today, increased regulatory scrutiny, lower margins and increased volatility mean that the cost of any resulting errors can be significant and sometimes even fatal. At the same time, customers are demanding innovative portfolio strategies that maximize alpha against a backdrop of near zero interest rates.