Thomson Financial has released its Integration Toolkit for users of its portfolio management and accounting system Portia and order management software Oneva Trade EQ.
Thomson says the toolkit can be customised for connectivity between virtually any proprietary system and Portia and Oneva Trade EQ installations - including other order management systems, general ledger applications, trade matching utilities, pricing and indicative data sources and with institutions using Swift messaging.
The tool utilises Microsoft's BizTalk Server to deliver business process management and messaging. The vendor says employing the Microsoft platform makes Integration Toolkit flexible and easily adaptable to changing requirements.
Eliminating the need for multiple point-to-point interfaces, the toolkit streamlines users' workflow by offering event-driven integration via messaging - where users can choose to capture and publish events in real-time, or process the events in batches.
Users can also use the system to validate data and map data between Portia or Oneva Trade EQ and other formats, to identify and correct data problems and automatically process subsequent activity and cancel transactions from other systems.
Suresh Kavan, president of Thomson Financial's investment management group, says: "Leveraging the Microsoft platform, Integration Toolkit gives clients a scalable, customisable and cost-effective means of linking their internal and external systems to their Portia and Oneva Trade EQ installations."