Beacon Platform helps financial services firms move into the future, with scalable and innovative solutions for a wide range of technology challenges. Effortlessly manage large-scale IT infrastructure and easily support modern DevOps processes. Provide clear and powerful development tools that enable rapid development and deployment of new applications, risk management tools, and quant analytics.

“The deployment of Beacon at IPI provides important continuity to our business from an operational due diligence perspective, and is highly valued by existing and potential institutional investors. This places IPI in comparable standings to larger and more established firms that have developed and gradually improved their in house solutions over many years.
Nick Vasserman, Founder & CIO, Integrated Portfolio Intelligence
Challenges and Solutions
With a powerful cloud platform, integrated development environment, and comprehensive set of front office applications, financial models, and analytics, Beacon solves challenges for a wide variety of roles in financial markets.
DevOps
Challenges
Moving away from legacy technologies, speeding up release cycles, and supporting collaborative application and analytics development with quants, traders, and risk managers.
Solution
Agile and collaborative development environment with enterprise-grade workflow. Git integration, code review tools, and testing framework boost productivity across version management, reviews, quality control, and code deployment processes. Balance technology controls with nimble and iterative development of new functionality.

Infrastructure
Challenges
Migrating to cloud services, managing and scaling large IT systems, and quickly adapting to changes in business use cases.
Solution
Powerful software-defined foundation of elastic compute and storage resources, based on decades of collective experience with large financial institutions. Automated cloud environment with integrated configuration and operational tools enables secure, self-service management for cost and time efficient changes across the enterprise.
Quant Technologist
Challenges
Quickly addressing interesting business questions across complex portfolios, easily implementing and modifying algorithms and models, while reducing data and code silos.
Solution
Integrated data, analytics, and production platform makes enterprise technology services accessible to quants and data scientists. Standard financial data models and analytics, web application framework, and customizable set of trading, risk, and analysis applications enable teams to focus on competitive edge, not infrastructure.
Risk Officer
Challenges
Running large and complex scenario analyses, quickly evaluating multiple risk measures, and effectively responding to regulatory and reporting requirements.
Solution
Comprehensive and customizable Front Office Suite includes multiple risk measures, scenario analysis tools, and stress testing modules. Existing back office reporting tools automate regulatory compliance reporting.
Trader