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Portfolio manager desktop

Overview

Portfolio manager desktop is an add-on solution to the standard banking packages. It is designed to provide portfolio managers with the complete online information about all aspects of the customer portfolios, in particular:

Statement of assets
Performance analysis
Portfolio overview
Account statement
Analysis of the portfolio lending value

The portfolio information is produced and maintained by the main banking package. Portfolio manager desktop provides the advanced analysis and presentation of this information.

Advantages

The standard banking packages often impose various constraints regarding the analysis and presentation of portfolio information. Some typical constraints are:

No single access point for the complete portfolio information
Fixed document layout, no way to customize
Fixed grouping of customer positions in the statement of assets
No concise posting descriptions in the account statement
Online printing on demand is not available
No quick and concise portfolio overview
Incomplete support for portfolio aggregation
Incomplete support for historic portfolio positions
No adequate support for cross pledges and lending values
Limited number of simultaneous sessions per user
Insufficient performance

Portfolio manager desktop was designed to overcome these constraints. By using this solution, bank's account officers get the following benefits:

Single access point for all portfolio information
Customized layout, according to the bank's requirements
Custom grouping of positions in the statement of assets
Concise posting descriptions in the account statement
Online high-quality printing on demand
Portfolio aggregation at customer level
Access to historic portfolio positions
Quick and concise portfolio overview mode
Support for cross pledges and lending values
Unlimited number of simultaneous sessions per user
High performance

Functionality

Main functionality:

Statement of assets online
Performance analysis online
Combined statement of assets and performance analysis
Portfolio overview online
Account statement online
Analysis of the portfolio lending value online

Special features:

Intranet based implementation
Friendly and intuitive user interface
Support for the portfolio aggregation
Complete support for the history portfolio data (valuation per working day)
Enhanced grouping of positions in the statement of assets
Enhanced support for detailed transaction descriptions in the account statement
Online printing facility for all document types
Embedded solution for lending values and cross pledge database
Business graphics integrated in the statement of assets
Integrated security and access control
Good performance and response time
Flexible interface to banking packages
Open XML-based architecture

Business graphics is integrated in the statement of assets; the following diagrams are available:

Portfolio composition, by asset types
Portfolio composition, by currencies
Shares by industries
Shares by countries
Bonds maturity diagram
Bonds cashflow analysis

All output documents may be generated in various languages. The language is selected individually for every customer. The following languages are supported in the standard configuration:

English
German
French
Italian
Spanish

Technical features

Interfaces to various sources of banking data are available. In particular, we support:

Relational databases
Temenos Globus

The most frequently used information, for example, portfolio valuation data for each working day, is periodically exported from the main banking system and stored in the builtin XML data warehouse. The solution uses this preloaded information for presentation and analysis. Using the data warehouse dramatically improves the performance and response time.

Output documents can be presented in various formats, which include:

PostScript
PDF
Plain text
XML
HTML

The software is running on Microsoft Windows (NT/2000) platform.

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