Services Consulting and Integration

Consulting Services

29West offers the expertise of our senior consulting staff to assist you in planning, developing and deploying your 29West LBM and Ultra Messaging® applications. Wherever you need assistance—from architecture definition to application design and coding, to system deployment or troubleshooting - our staff has the experience and expertise to ensure that your team realizes high-performing, latency-sensitive messaging in the most efficient and resource-savvy manner.

Examples of specific consulting services we offer include:

SNMP Quick Start

The 29West SNMP Agent can provide unprecedented vision into the details of your messaging system. As part of our SNMP Quick Start, we will help you identify the best way for your organization to use the SNMP data to:

  • Identiry issues early, before they lead to loss
  • Flag high-latency issues like packet loss and queuing latency
  • View topic and transport mappings across your entire messaging deployment

As part of the SNMP Quick Start, we will also:

  • Tie your messaging applications into an existing SNMP management framework, or
  • Set up a custom SNMP management framework for your applications
  • Perform a 1-2 day architectural review of your system to ensure proper integration

Architecture Design Studies

29West engineers have the expertise required to help you squeeze every possible bit of performance out of your new next-generation messaging system. Many times, new architectures are enabled by the nothing-in-the-middle design of our Ultra Messaging® products, and our Architecture Design Studies help ensure you are properly designing your system. As part of the study, 29West will conduct a 3-5 day workshop, offering:

  • Architectural review of existing system, or
  • Best-practices focused guidance for new architectures
  • API implementation review

There are many issues that come into play as you eliminate the latency from your systems and optimize performance. 29West consulting staff's deep understanding of not only messaging and financial market applications, but also network technologies, operating systems and hardware variations can prove invaluable to your development team. In helping our customers deploy trading and exchange infrastructures with record-breaking latency and throughput numbers, we have learned numerous valuable lessons and best practices. We are happy to share these with you to help you tune and optimize your Ultra Messaging® deployment.

Integration Services

Limited resources can prevent some enterprises from moving forward with a higher-performance messaging system. If gaps in critical expertise are preventing you from gaining the latency improvements and added stability of 29West messaging, 29West integration support can be the answer. The 29West engineers have considerable experience transforming legacy messaging applications to 29West high-performing applications.

Examples of specific integration services we offer include:

Ultra-Performance FIX Engine

"In a world where performance is measured in millions of messages per second and latency in micro- seconds, if not in nanoseconds, it is more important than ever to have an ultra-performing FIX Engine solution available."

29West is developing a lean, high-performance FIX Engine that is built on top of its next-generation Ultra Messaging® products to deliver unparalleled throughput and latency. By leveraging 29West’s proven technology and footprint in the capital markets space, the FIX Engine will provide industry-leading performance and will support customizeable real-time extensions.

API Migration Services

"Migration to a next-generation messaging backbone does not have to be a high-risk, year-long development and QA effort."

29West's customized migration approach provides our customers the fastest possible path to a high-performance, next-generation messaging backbone. Key factors taken into consideration include:

  • Identify key business priorities
  • Assess existing API functionality
  • Collaborate with all stakeholders

Working with your team, 29West engineers can port your existing applications to 29West messaging and provide integration tuning and roll-out support. Along with their understanding of not only messaging and financial market applications, but network, OS and hardware issues, adding 29West engineers to your team can dramatically reduce the time to deploy a new solution and provide your company a competitive advantage. The time needed can be as little as a few weeks.

You may be closer to a higher-performance solution than you realized. For more details, please contact us.