Geneos was born in the trading rooms of large investment banks, no other monitoring tool is built specifically for execution and front office.
Geneos was born in the trading rooms of large investment banks, and it has filled a significant gap in the market - no other monitoring tool is built specifically for execution and front office.
Over the last 25 years, ITRS has remained focussed specifically on financial institutions, with Geneos deployed at over 200 financial institutions and across 9 out of 10 top tier investment banks. The advanced capabilities of Geneos in alerting hierarchy and alerting automation mean that execution teams can allocate more time on the revenue generating side of the business.
Provides end-to-end view of trading infrastructure
Through a single integrated system, Geneos achieves a real-time, end-to-end view of trading infrastructure including applications, transaction flows and connections to external services.
Improves operational performance
Geneos helps users achieve operational excellence by automating essential operational processes, anticipating potential bottlenecks and service shortfalls. As a result, resources for Support Services can be allocated more effectively.
Proactively addresses any infrastructure weaknesses
The system identifies underperforming trading assets and performance inconsistencies across the trade lifecycle. This proactive approach can help address infrastructure weaknesses before they affect business, as well as helping to prioritise investment in trading infrastructure.
Key features:
Understand value at risk, should a major market outage occur.
Real-time monitoring
Most monitoring tools can query application metrics between 5 mins-10 mins. Whilst this is suitable for non-critical applications, trading and execution platforms require up-to-date observability, so problems are picked up as soon as they arise. Geneos monitors at near real time, ensuring accurate alerting and status reporting.
Low impact probes
Geneos Netprobes are designed for performance-sensitive environments and have been built to have close to no impact on the servers in which they run. All information is taken away from the production servers and passed to dedicated gateways for processing.
FIX Analyser plugin
Built with trading rooms in mind, our link into clients’ FIX engines means that trading activity can be overlayed with application and infrastructure metrics (e.g. fill rate, rejects, NACK, cancellations, etc.).
Data feeds
The success of financial institutions has always depended on the availability of timely and trustworthy data sources. Milli or micro seconds can give you the advantage over your trade counterparts. The ability to identify faulty or delayed data is becoming a crucial business requirement. Geneos is the industry leading tool for monitoring real-time data feeds, such as Refinitiv RTDS
Event monitoring
An end-to-end view that enables clients to have telemetry-based visibility across multiple applications and event workflows. This gives you a complete picture of any bottlenecks or increasing latency across execution applications. No other tool provides the ability to have complete oversight across the entire front office application landscape.
In-house application monitoring
Along with industry-standard application plugins, Geneos can monitor in-house custom applications using its suite of development toolkits. This is essential for having a complete view across all front office applications.
Scalability and performance
Whether you’re monitoring one thousand servers, ten thousand servers or one hundred thousand servers, our horizontally scalable solutions enable deployment across the largest financial players in the market.
Geneos POC proved out requirements for scalability, ability to query Enterprise Service Bus for between the application data, and real-time alerting. Client selected Geneos across Equities division for full application and infrastructure monitoring, with plans to further expand in 2022.
Existing observability setup did not provide complete view of estate or single pane of glass view across front office systems.
Geneos POC proved out the tool’s capabilities in less than 48hrs. Geneos is the industry leader in market data and front office monitoring – so all requirements were ‘off-the-shelf’. Geneos has been selected and deployed, with plans to move to enterprise monitoring later in 2022.
