Resourcing

The Lloyd's Building

Lloyd's Building, also known as the The Inside-Out Building, is a landmark of London's historic financial district. It was completed in 1978 and today is home to a major insurance/reinsurance market and the famous Lutine Bell.

Technology & Software

Formed after years of successful system upgrades, migrations and the testing that goes along with the introduction of new technology, O3’s Technology & Software Development Group builds, markets and deploys advanced applications for leading financial institutions. O3 software products are designed to help clients do more with technology, streamline business operations, reduce manual intervention and increase efficiency and reusability - while not compromising on quality. Focused in the area of full lifecycle testing for complex financial applications, our current offerings include:

Financial Testing Suite:

O3’s Financial Testing Suite (FTS, the first automated testing software designed specifically for Capital Markets trading applications by financial domain experts). The software suite dramatically decreases time to market and the cost to deploy by incorporating predefined mapping for leading derivative trading and capital markets applications. With reusable test scripts, audit / compliance tracking and robust documentation templates, the software provides enhanced testing coverage including graphical user interfaces, business processes and product lifecycles for a wide asset class of instruments.

O3 FTS consistently enables our clients to effect positive change in their markets through the application of strategic and technical innovation, coupled with a carefully composed suite of solutions and services to manage every aspect of testing around complex capital market applications.

This targeted solution helps to:

  • Shorten testing and release cycles
  • Significantly minimize defects
  • Dramatically improve software quality
  • Increase efficiency in production and implementation
  • Radically decrease costs across the entire project life cycle
  • Reduce resources focused on testing

Our testing expertise for financial applications includes:

  • Test Planning
  • Test Case Design & Traceability Matrix
  • Test Execution
  • Defect Tracking & Management
  • Reporting
  • Test Metrics
  • Audit and Compliance Documentation

Supported Platforms:

O3 consultants have assisted our clients in implementing solutions based around the following products:

  • Calypso
  • Misys Summit
  • Murex
  • Front Arena
  • Wall Street Systems
  • OpenLink
  • Numerix
  • Principia Analytics System
  • Charles River Development

Technologies We Work With:

O3 recommends and uses the appropriate technology to satisfy real world business challenges. We make recommendations based upon what is right for our client’s business, not upon the latest fads or buzzwords. With the financial services industry spending over $100 billion a year utilizing technology for competitive advantage, we rely upon the latest commercial and open source tools and protocols to solve real business problems.

We work with the following technologies:

  • Java, C# and .NET, C/C++, XML scripting languages
  • Databases such as Oracle, Sybase and MS SQL Server
  • Messaging middleware such as MQ, TIBCO, JMS and web services
  • Application and workflow servers such as JBOSS, IBM WebSphere and BEA/WebLogic
  • STP protocols including FIX, FpML and SWIFT