Market Data Manager
– the features

MDSL’s Market Data Manager (MDM) offers distinct features that make it the only proven global market data solution:

Trader Profiles
Trader profiles allow you to define the collection of vendor services and access methods used by the optimal trader in each of your business areas. Once profiles are created you can tag each trader and compare their actual permissions to identify any exceptions.

Self Certification
This simple feature can bring significant savings to any organisation by e-mailing users with a request to carry out the self certification process. They are asked to certify which services they want to keep by checking a box next to each service option. By doing this the users understand exactly what market data charges they can expect to be charged for.

Netting rules and MISU
Netting rules are business rules that can be built into MDM that describe how certain combinations of service permissions allow certain services to become free of charge. Multiple Instance Single User (MISU) reports can also be generated for vendors including NYSE, AMEX and OPRA.

Proactive inventory management
With MDM you can schedule alarms for important events such as approaching contract renewals and overdue vendor invoices. Reports can be scheduled and generated automatically to show where savings opportunities exist in your data, based on changes in your inventory.

Business Process Automation
All Market Data managers want to optimise the time and effort involved in Market Data administration. The MDSL product suite contains numerous interfaces that streamline and automate (as far as possible) the administration process. These include DACS, Bloomberg SID, FactSet, ILX and our general purpose entitlements interfaces. There are also various reporting interfaces for MISU and eDAD. An additional HR interface can be used to update orgainizational data including new hires. Project Code Accounting can be used to track research expenses. MDM can also integrate and share data with various ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, ARIBA, PeopleSoft, Remedy etc, so that processes are not duplicated across systems.

Internal Accountability
MDM allows you provide reports to your business cost centres down to the most detailed level. Because it maintains a complete history, you can compare spend over time, track expenditure against budgets, spot trends and clearly see the improvements and savings that have been made.

Active Dashboard Reporting
MDM features user-customisable “Active Dashboards”, giving business managers a range of market data usage and cost related reports.

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