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Pouring Data on Troubled Markets - Quantitative Portfolio Management Technology at BGI
Presented by Eoin Woods on Nov 05, 2009
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Summary
Eoin Woods explains how Barclays Global Investors (BGI) designed Apex, a new porfolio management system, to meet the challenges it faces and why BGI chose to combine mainstream, boutique and open source Java technologies, including Oracle, WebLogic, Spring, Swing, JIDE, Flux, CPLEX, MVEL and XStream, to create an architecture with some interesting variations on the standard J2EE form.
Bio
Eoin Woods is a software architect at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), responsible for a new equities portfolio management system being built for the company's well known active management group. Prior to BGI, Eoin worked in the software engineering field for over 15 years, for a number of companies including Groupe Bull, Sybase, InterTrust and UBS Investment Bank.
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Eoin Woods explains how Barclays Global Investors (BGI) designed Apex, a new porfolio management system, to meet the challenges it faces and why BGI chose to combine mainstream, boutique and open source Java technologies, including Oracle, WebLogic, Spring, Swing, JIDE, Flux, CPLEX, MVEL and XStream, to create an architecture with some interesting variations on the standard J2EE form.
Bio
Eoin Woods is a software architect at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), responsible for a new equities portfolio management system being built for the company's well known active management group. Prior to BGI, Eoin worked in the software engineering field for over 15 years, for a number of companies including Groupe Bull, Sybase, InterTrust and UBS Investment Bank.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
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