Beacon’s customizable suite of applications and modules cover the full trading lifecycle, from pre-trade analytics to portfolio and risk management, providing the tools traders and risk managers need to evaluate potential deals, manage risk across all asset classes, and optimize
Very few companies want to maintain their own computers—it’s just not part of their competitive advantage. Eventually the cloud came along and made it feasible to use slices of someone else’s computers as virtual machines. Using cloud applications and services
Beacon Platform delivers benefits to different parts of the companies that deploy it, from development through trading and risk management. Here is our top 10 list of benefits that Beacon brings to the development process. 10) Provides a secure environment
What do you do when you want to trade a new product but your trading and risk systems don’t support it? Add a parallel system and lose full visibility of your portfolio? Or book placeholder trades and rely on proxy
“I enjoy seeing how our company and clients operate. This is something that’s difficult to learn from a book, so these real-life experiences at Beacon have been enlightening.” Typical Day First Things Cross the garden to my shed where I
In my sales travels I talk with a lot of developers in energy and commodity, banking, investment, and insurance markets. A common thread I hear is the challenge of leveraging existing investments in code and data, gaining access to new
Beacon Platform makes it easier to manage the elastic compute functionality of cloud providers. To help you keep track of compute usage as elastic CPU capacity automatically scales up and down, we have developed a simple management app. Available in
Learn how Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, is leveraging Beacon and Snowflake to enhance its data and analytics capabilities. “With Beacon’s flexible and extensible data model, we are able to answer a greater number of increasingly sophisticated questions and
By Lukasz Macura & Steve Rapaport Beacon may be a buy-and-build platform, but we are always looking for ways to make the building part faster and easier for you. We’ve introduced several frameworks and low-code tools, including Glint, Fragments Framework,
By Claus Murmann and Ben Merrett Since releasing CME Group’s DataMine plugin on the Beacon App Store last year, many customers have taken advantage of our integration with dataset from the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. We have recently added three
