Vision
The vision behind Arcantek trading platform “Aswaqplatform™” is to support the range of applications that Arcantek and its partners want to build in order to support and empower the financial market. In fact Arcantek trading platform is targeted towards producing an “eco-system” of financial applications that are built on common grounds and are highly “connected” and “collaborative” in nature. All of these applications share a common base, consistent object model and interface as well as consistent design practices.
State of The Art Technology
Arcantek Aswaqplatform™ is a next generation trading platform that offers real-time trading and market information. Arcantek trading platform is built on Service Oriented Architecture using principles of loosely coupled components and services. It is designed to support agility in the business and offer scalability, performance, reliability and security that are absolutely critical to the success of any financial enterprise and specially members of financial community.
Arcantek trading platform is built in manner that it can be extended and/or used by means of building new services, applications and utilities. These services can be used and/or orchestrated to feed different applications and support different functional scenarios.
Arcantek trading platform™ is application agnostic and thus any financial service and application can be built on top of it. Sharesoft provides consistent development interface by providing standard API, tools and utilities for use to extend current functionality or satisfy particular requirement.
Arcantek trading platform™ is built as a base for other financial services to be built and executed on top of it. Sharesoft platform itself is composed of vertical and horizontal services that supports its main functions and enables it to become the next generation trading platform.
Information Delivery
Information and content delivery is one of the core offerings of the Arcantek trading platform™. Information/Content can be supported in the form of real time market data feed (MDF), market news (provided by various news providers), as well as periodic financial reports, like, annual reports of companies & market surveys etc. Support and facilitation of end to end delivery of information is ensured within the platform. Arcantek platform allows persistence and storage of the content that it receives and delivers to the client.
eTrading
Arcantek platform inherently supports eTrading capabilities for multiple exchanges and allows integration with multiple back office systems. Support for integration with leading back office providers such as SunGard Apsys, gives Arcantek platform the ability and focus to provide broad and solid base for building financial and trading applications. Therefore Arcantek inherently supports trading features like straight through processing, order management cycle, pre-trade validations, multi-currency trading, multiple portfolio management and real time portfolio valuations etc. are built natively in the platform.
Arcantek trading platform™ is built completely on industry standards using best practices. Industry best practices range from architectural patterns to implementation practices and deployment scenarios, the entire platform and its components are modeled on proven and successful principals.
Platform Superiority
Security
Arcantek platform design and implementation wise emphasizes and ensures security. Inside platform security is implemented by the means of authentication and authorization.
Scalability
Arcantek platform is build to be scalable. It supports the notion of “Horizontal Scalability” or “Scaling out” rather than “Scaling up”. This architectural approach allows Arcantek platform to handle more volumes of data, more concurrent and to provide more processing power.
Availability
Arcantek platform ensures maximum availability and fulfilling SLA requirements by using highly distributed and message oriented middleware. In addition to failover capability redundant components are made available inside the platform such that if any component fails then a duplicate component assumes the responsibility, ensuring maximum availability.
Reliability
Arcantek platform offers reliable data and information delivery through the use of its internal messaging middleware and asynchronous message communication mechanism that guarantees end to end reliable message delivery and transaction execution.
Performance
Arcantek platform offers the maximum performance by using throttling techniques to appropriately use bandwidth of the client, thus sending data streams in the fastest and best possible manner. Caching is also used at different layers to ensure fast in memory data access. In principal Sharesoft application performance are only limited by the connectivity of the client to the server.
Extensibility
Arcantek platform can be extended and customized to meet as particular requirements. The platform also offers consistent APIs that are extensible and support dependency injection pattern to allow custom implementation of platform and service components.
Manageability
Arcantek platform inherently supports health and monitoring services by having them built inside the platform. All the platform components and services can be monitored using Arcantek platform management console. In addition, system components monitoring and control can be used locally and remotely to effectively manage server systems and PCs deployments running Sharesoft platform and its clients.