Initial situation
Market data desktop products (primarily premium terminals) represent both a voluminous and a cost-intensive factor in trading and trading-related environments of financial institutions, being the largest item next to data feeds in a company’s market data budget.
High costs with a concurrently increasing pressure in recent years effected a stronger management focus on the desktop landscape by the following aspects:
- Reorganisation, mergers and adjusted business models significantly changed the requirements and usage behaviour of terminals and hence request an appropriate adjustment of desktop landscape
- Parallel usage of real-time exchanges both in applications and in desktop terminals by the same user requires a netting process with exchanges for cost control – insofar provided by exchanges
- The mandatory implementation of regulatory requirements as for example record-keeping (chats, voice-trading, video) leads to additional effort and investments in infrastructure. The associated additional costs need to be controlled
- High complexity of data vendor’s commercials and license aspects regarding individual data usage via terminals and applications requires a comprehensive management of the desktop landscape and feed-supply
The primary goal – realisation of cost control and cost optimisation – will be implemented by a multipart concept in the desktop environment.

The Be GmbH services
- Consulting in reducing double terminals/ double users (primarily in trading and trading-related sectors)
- Consulting in replacing premium terminals by Mid-Tier terminals (primarily Sales, BackOffice and non-trading areas)
- Consulting in replacing premium terminals by Excel Add-Ins (primarily BackOffice and non-trading areas)
- Consulting in creating standardised user-profiles for terminal usage (interview-based definition on desk or department level coordinated with customer/business)
- Consulting in reducing real-time exchanges and negotiating netting-processes with relevant exchanges
- Consulting in reducing optional services (3rd party services) and suppliers of specialist data
- Consulting in changeover of products (premium terminal, desktops in mid/low Tier sector, web products)
Your benefits by optimising the market data landscape
- Enhancement of sustainable cost control and cost optimisation by demand-driven choice of market data desktop products
- Appropriate control of both, individual services on market data front-end side and standalone services (for example enabling real-time exchanges, optional services)
- Enhance manager’s and end-user’s cost awareness regarding cost structures and licensing models of user-based market data
The Be GmbH expertise in the area of Optimisation of Market Data Desktop Landscape
- Project experience in achieving cost savings and creating user profiles in the trading environment (for example Capital Markets/Investment Banking) and also in non-trading areas
- Expertise in common terminal products (premium and Mid/Low Tier products) and Excel Add-Ins
- Expertise with common market data vendors, exchanges and specialist suppliers including their commercials
- Expertise in market data management