Reactive Worksheets - Solution Brief

Solution Brief
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FalconSoft Ltd
Technology Consulting & Nearshore Outsourcing Services
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REACTIVE WORKSHEETS

A Sophisticated Enterprise Data Management, Analysis & Reporting Solution
A key challenge for most financial institutions nowadays is to knit together various
distributed data sources into one framework in order to provide a coherent, consistent and
holistic view on Enterprise Data. This paper outlines how the above-mentioned issue can be
addressed through FalconSoft’s Data Management and Analysis Solution, Reactive
Worksheets.
THE CHALLENGE

Financial Services institutions own, maintain and consume large terabytes of data coming
from many different places in many different shapes. That could be proprietary or legacy
systems, internal or external data sources, real-time or static feeds, transactional or
warehouse databases, flat text files or structured excel spreadsheets.

MS Excel / SharePoint
Power View

MS Excel /Sharepoint
Power Pivot

Custom Functions

Monitoring & Control

Risk Analytics

Complience

Portfolio Management

CRM

Reactive Worksheets (Middleware)

In order to make a true
insight and ensure your
decision is based on
complete and up to date
External Sources
Reactive Worksheets (Single UI)
Microsoft BI /
Reporting
Daily Feeds
data, analysts or decision
Analytics
makers have to access,
Real Time Feeds
extract, join and aggregate
all these sources. That
obviously takes time,
Internal
SOAs
money and you can’t really
Analytics
be sure that meantime
Calculation Engines
somebody else hasn’t
Workflow Services
Reactive Worksheets
changed it. Reactive
(Data Repository)
AdHoc Files
Configurations
Worksheets is a
Legacy Systems
Meta Data
sophisticated enterprise data
management and analysis
Figure 1- Classical diagram with Reactive Worksheets
solution that enables a coherent,
consistent and holistic view
through enterprise data sets, business processes and business flow. It doesn’t matter where
data were stored - in a database, proprietary or legacy system or even real-time external feed
as shown in Figure 1.
FalconSoft Ltd provides a robust platform that allows advanced data analysis, modification
and sharing capability on enterprise data, which has a seamless integration model with
Microsoft BI solutions. Effectively it allows analysts and decision makers to stay away from
tons of uncontrolled adhoc flat files and/or excel spreadsheets.

FalconSoft Ltd

88-90 Hatton Garden,
London, EC1N 8PG, UK
phone: +44 20 8859 6906
e-mail: info@falconsoft-ltd.com
www.falconsoft-ltd.com

15 Smal'-Stots'koho Street,
Lviv, 79015, Ukraine,
phone: +38 067 288 91 42

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REACTIVE WORKSHEETS

Reactive Worksheets - is a
sophisticated Enterprise Data
Management, Analysis &
Reporting solution built to meet
the specific challenges of capital
market participants. The solution
is designed to help decision
makers (Traders, Sales, and Risk
Officers etc.) - to access, analyse
and manage data from multiple
heterogeneous data sources in a
very flexible but powerful way.

ReactiveWorksheets
(Single UI)

ReactiveWorksheets
(Data Repository)

Microsoft
Business Intelligence &
Reporting Solution

Reactive Worksheets (Middleware)

Database(s)

External
Feeds,
Sources or
Analytics

Proprietary
& Legacy
Systems

Flat Files,
MS Excel
Spreadsheets

A typical scenario for how all
data can be accessed from a
single point within enterprise in
Figure 2 – Reactive Worksheets (Single UI)
real time is shown in Figure 2.
This is helping to eliminate data silos that often cause risk, misuse of resources and
unnecessary costs for organizations.

Built-in IronPython scripting language provides enormous capacity to do quantitative
analysis, letting users do anything from statistical analysis of connected data sources to
complex modelling scenarios with user-friendly front ends. The tool provides an intuitive
interface that lets users see what happens to the data as you manipulate them locally.
Main features include:
 Clear separation between data and
presentation;
 Structured & standardised data
sources
 Comprehensive validation rules
 Advanced filtering, grouping and
sorting
 Multiple Data Sources consolidation
(joining from different systems)
 Real time data updates

 Fine grained Access Control and
Security
 Full audit trail
 IronPython scripting support
through a convenient IDE
 Powerful search engine throughout
all your data sources
 Flexible sharing facility
 Customization
 Real-time Multi User support

And last but not least - all data are kept and audited in a secured Data Repository.

FalconSoft Ltd

phone: +44 20 8859 6906

phone: +38 067 288 91 42

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DATA REPOSITORY

Secured, controlled & harmonized data storage
Security

Audit Trail

Meta Data

Control

Data
Repository

BI Temporal
Queries

Versioning

Data Repository - is a harmonised data
storage with a number of control, audit,
indexing, archiving features deployed to
the local server or to the cloud and can
be seamlessly integrated with Microsoft
Business Intelligence solutions e.g.
PowerView and PowerPivot.
Our state on art architecture allows us
not to delete any of your records, what
means that everything can be traced,
found and restored in Data Repository.

Snapshots

Reactive Worksheets are built on o top
of Data Repository and provide a data
management, data analysis & data
Figure 3 – Data Repository
visualization functionality. Also, data
visualization can be provided with Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions - Power View
or Power Pivot.
Data repository exhibits the following characteristics:
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Security (Authentication & Authorization)
Full Audit Trail (who, what and where)
Data Snapshots (tags) - ability to rollback to as it was during any point in the past
Hierarchical Data Snapshots
Powerful metadata infrastructure allows you a quick and easy access to your data.
Can be deployed either on cloud, locally or server
Seamless integration with Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions - Power View
and Power Pivot

FalconSoft Ltd

phone: +44 20 8859 6906

phone: +38 067 288 91 42

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & REPORTING

With PowerPivot & PowerView
Reactive Worksheets & Data Repository are
designed to be very well integrated with
Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions –
Power View and Power Pivot
Power View provides an ad-hoc, customized
and specifically tailored visualization
experience based on data stored in our secured
and controlled Data Repository.
It enables quick and easy visualization of data
while allowing sharing and collaboration of
business insights in a familiar MS Excel 2013
and SharePoint environments.

Figure 4 – Business Intelligence & Reporting.

Microsoft BI & Reporting offers a powerful solution that provides users of all levels with
new insights through familiar Microsoft Office tools. We can create compelling reports and
analytical applications to easily share insights, and collaborate with colleagues.
The following characteristics can be attributed:
 Access real time data through Reactive Worksheet’s middleware and/or Data
Repository from virtually any source
 Easily collaborate and share insight using Power Pivot
 Discover new insights and visualize data with Power View
 Inspire innovation in end users with data mashup capabilities
 All of the above capabilities available out of the box in Excel 2013
 Mash-up and Analyse Data with Power Pivot
 Process billions of rows of data at the speed of thought
 Perform Rapid Data Exploration With Power View with Excel 2013
 Perform rapid data exploration visually and interactively using SharePoint
 Effortlessly create, present, and share reports with Power View with Excel 2013

FalconSoft Ltd

phone: +44 20 8859 6906

phone: +38 067 288 91 42

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SUMMARY

FalconSoft Ltd consultants came across data management, analysis and reporting issues
while working for investment banks and hedge funds. Consequently, the understanding of
financial companies’ challenges has led us to build our own robust and scalable enterprise
data management, analysis and reporting platform.
FalconSoft Ltd is London based Technology Consulting and Nearshore Outsourcing
Services Company, focused on providing software technology solutions to financial services
firms. Our focus is dedicated to the development, integration and support of information
technology solutions for investment banks, exchanges, brokerage houses, asset/wealth
managers, and hedge funds.
 We are the only technology consultancy in the city, what offers number of out of the
box solutions to the customers to try, adopt and leverage.
 We adopted an industry proven outsourcing agile methodology, what works very well
for dynamic financial services organisation and our Ukrainian development center
 We offer flexible, effective and collaborative partnership models to our clients with
effectively balanced onshore and nearshore resources in our development center in
Lviv, Ukraine
 We combine onshore and offshore development teams to maximise return on
investment while keeping close to our customers in the UK and Europe

FalconSoft Ltd

phone: +44 20 8859 6906

phone: +38 067 288 91 42

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