Eikos Partners Builds Portal for Cantor Fitzgerald's Prime Services Division

The portal integrates all asset classes into a single environment, and was built with Microsoft Silverlight to enhance the user experience.

Eikos Partners announced it has delivered a complete business portal for Cantor Fitzgerald's Prime Services Division.

Cantor provides equity and fixed income prime brokerage services to hedge funds, money managers, REITs, professional traders, broker dealers and mutual funds covered under '40 Act.

Noel Kimmell, senior managing director in charge of Cantor Prime Services, commented, "The portal enables us to integrate all asset classes into a single environment, and is designed to enhance the client experience."

The portal was designed and developed to provide clients with full-featured reports, trade capture services and various portfolio accounting data across all asset classes. It exposes a set of services provided by Cantor Prime Services and is built in Microsoft Silverlight 3.0. Cantor selected Eikos because of the consulting firm's experience with Silverlight and their process, which allows for early and continuous delivery of capabilities, according to the release.

“This is the culmination of 18 months of work in understanding how to build Silverlight applications and deploy them for mission critical business needs” stated David Lattimore-Gay, Partner, Eikos. “We have built a reference infrastructure to support our best practices, and most importantly have a team in place that can quickly turn concept into reality,” added Lattimore, in the release.

Eikos’s Creative Design Team worked closely with Cantor to design a rich user interface that balanced form and functionality resulting in a superior user experience, the company said in the release.

Eikos employed a layered structure to allow for integration of data and services from the back-end, linked to a front-end that contains visual elements or "UI widgets", that perform business functions. The UI widgets communication with each other to create an intuitive feedback to the user, who has control over how the UI widgets are organized and displayed. Silverlight offers the capabilities to deliver Rich Internet Applications (RIA), to a wide array of browsers and OS platforms so that both Mac and Windows users can access the portal.

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