Managed Solutions business of Interactive Data Corporation has expanded the product offerings and increased the number of clients in North America to 80 just in one year.
New customers of Interactive Data Managed Solutions in North America include AOL, Firstrade, Standard & Poor’s and Platts (both are divisions of The McGraw-Hill Companies). To date the provider has more than 470 customers globally and hosts more than 1,000 Web sites.
Recently introduced offerings from Interactive Data: Market Data via XML (MDXSM), a service for in-house developers looking to integrate data into their Web site and applications; ETF Center, a suite of products that include profiles, charts, screeners and analytical tools for exchange-traded funds; and a Mobile Offering, a service that delivers stock and index quote information to cell phones, pagers and handheld devices. The company utilizes new technologies such as Silverlight, Flex and Web 2.0 to develop these products for its customers.
Interactive Data Managed Solutions delivers flexible and attractive online experience. The company leverages the financial market data sources from across its businesses and from other vendors to build and manage customized Web-based applications. These applications aggregate a tailored set of financial data and customer-proprietary content, and offer visually stunning features such as streaming data feeds, charts, sophisticated search functions and decision-support tools and analytics.
“Interactive Data’s ability to secure new customers, along with our global technology infrastructure, comprehensive data and sophisticated tools, demonstrates our team’s capacity to determine the scope of product needs and design the appropriate solutions,” says Luan Cox, general manager, Interactive Data Managed Solutions (Americas). “We continue to work with an increasing number of North American customers to cost-effectively build powerful online financial applications.”
“Interactive Data’s depth of financial content delivery capabilities, coupled with its sophisticated technology platform, helped provide our Web site with top-level functionality spanning several international locations,” says C.S. Hsia, vice president of business development, Firstrade Securities, Inc., an online discount broker based in the U.S. “Interactive Data’s ability to design our Web site to deliver a wide range of financial content in three languages underscores its commitment to customizing solutions to help meet complex client needs.”
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