BLOOMBERG ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
REAL-TIME DATA & PLATFORM
THE BLOOMBERG PLATFORM
THE BLOOMBERG PLATFORM HELPS FIRMS CREATE
A SMARTER IT ENVIRONMENT
DATA FLOW IS
COMPLICATED
Financial firms create and share huge volumes of data every
day. Research, internal pricing, position information and more
passes back and forth among traders, quants, sales desks,
risk managers and support teams across the firm, as well as
with clients.
Ideally, firms distribute data in a secure, reliable, cost-effective
way. IT teams know the reality is more complex due to a
disparate mix of feeds, platforms and custom integrations. In
addition, executives want to take advantage of new technologies
that help distribute, store and analyze data in real time. And
users in the front, middle and back office want workflow to move
seamlessly among a variety of desktop applications.
Streamline
Data Distribution
BLOOMBERG
DATA VIA B-PIPE
» Bloomberg Prem. Data
» Consolidated
Market Data
» Event Feeds
As a managed service, the Bloomberg Platform helps
firms significantly reduce the cost, risk and management
overhead of data distribution. Situated strategically within
your network, it offers the potential to replace some or all of
the infrastructure firms use for enterprise data distribution.
And, through the Bloomberg Open API, the Platform can
integrate with a wide range of systems (including third-party
technology) for highly flexible workflow.
» Contributions
» Global/Local
Publishing
THIRD PARTY
DATA
BLOOMBERG PLATFORM
Data
Distribution
System
Monitoring
THE PLATFORM
MAKES IT SIMPLER
Bloomberg has a different vision for distribution. The
centerpiece is the Bloomberg Platform, a managed service
that provides everything you expect from a centralized
solution: trusted entitlements, rigorous application and
system monitoring, and the ability to distribute external,
internal, customer or third-party data to users, applications
and other destinations worldwide.
CUSTOMERGENERATED
DATA
Entitlements
Management
Adapter
Bloomberg Open API
Bloomberg
User
Non-Bloomberg
User
Black
Box
The Bloomberg Platform lets firms leverage one of the world’s fastest and
most formidable networks and its world-class performance, global footprint
and support.
REDUCE TOTAL
COST OF OWNERSHIP
Enhance Productivity
And Performance
Local publishing
• Fast, reliable performance for desktop users and server
applications
• Data distributed to entitled subscribers anywhere on-site
• Published via the Bloomberg Professional® desktop or other
desktops or servers
Global publishing
• Send proprietary data globally over the Bloomberg private
network
• No contributions required
Entitlements management
• Entitlements Management and Reporting System (EMRS)
• Supervise entitlements for users, groups, applications and
publishing services
• Authenticate and authorize users and server-based applications
System monitoring
• Bloomberg Appliance Management System (BAMS)
• Real-time statistics to monitor system health and stability
• Integrated ticketing with alerts and notifications
Subscriptions
• Equity exchanges
• Inter-dealer brokers
• Contributors
• Internally generated data
The Bloomberg Platform offloads non-real-time, machineintensive calculations to our data center to create a single,
high-performance point of presence at your firm. Bloomberg
is responsible for managing the hardware, the upgrades,
the rack space, the physical space and climate control in
our data centers. This can make a huge impact on total cost
of ownership. Plus, firms gain the stability that comes from
hardware and software that are fully backed by 24/7 service
and support.
ENTERPRISE ADVANTAGES
The Bloomberg Platform delivers value across the enterprise.
Front office users who are Bloomberg subscribers can
consolidate multiple desktop interfaces and enjoy a simpler,
more streamlined experience for daily workflow.
C-suite decision makers will like the resiliency of the
Bloomberg global network, the flexibility to adopt new
technologies as they come to market and the lower overall
total cost of ownership of a managed service.
IT engineers can devote more time to core business issues
instead of managing a complex web of data feeds, platforms
and custom integrations.
Vendor managers can vastly simplify the management of
permissions, entitlements and usage reporting.
Open API
• Programming interfaces in Java, C++, .Net, PERL and Python
• Single API for publishing and consuming
• Not bound to a specific data dictionary, symbology or
event model
FLEXIBLE CONTAINERS
Containers are an extension of the Bloomberg Professional
service that allow users to display internally generated data
within the Bloomberg Launchpad® workspace or Microsoft®
Excel®, effectively enabling firms to display proprietary and
Bloomberg data within the same real estate on the screen.
Users can see page-based and record-based data, blend
data sets from different pages, add value to data and publish
it for others.
ENTERPRISE IS EVERYTHING
Financial firms face new realities: Do more with less. Show
your work. Follow stricter rules. These goals don’t fit within
traditional boundaries. They involve people, processes and
technology from the front, middle and back office. That’s why
firms need a partner with enterprise-level expertise and three
decades of deep industry experience.
Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions is ready to help.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Learn more about how we can help you simplify global and local data distribution. Visit bloomberg.com/enterprise or reach us
at [email protected].
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