Its order routing and trade management services allow traders anywhere in the world to trade efficiently and accurately in the cross-border securities market. The exposure of the service to Reuters worldwide customer base will accelerate further business growth. Although our existing Sun systems were still performing well, it was clearly time for an upgrade.
Electronic trading is still relatively new.
There are clear cost advantages to seamless cross-border trading, but if our system failed just once, our customers might revert to using the phone. We have had many years of positive experience with Sun technology, so when we needed to upgrade our infrastructure, we chose Sun Microsystems. Low-Risk Upgrade Sun Professional Services kicked off the new infrastructure project with a series of workshops, which captured all the requirements for the new platform's success. From these workshops came a complete project plan, which included tailored on-site training and detailed configuration work. We didn't just want advice, we wanted on-site expertise to ensure that everything was right when we went live in August 1998.