Equity Research and Industry Analysis

Solution Architecture:

Client:

Leading India based global credit rating agency, financial research and advisory company with operations in India, US, UK and the Caribbean.

Project Requirement:

Client wanted to replace their existing front end client-server presentation system for equity research products, with a web based, freely distributable and secured system with capability to automatically update itself with latest research reports, on daily basis for achieving better responsiveness to customers' information requirements.

Major Challenges & Solutions:

Local installation at the client location

The whole site is distribute to each client with data and content specific to the services subscribed by the client.

Online updates

The front end system at client end automatically updates itself with the latest released content for the services subscribed by the client by opening a connection to the server running at Crisil, download the content using HTTP protocol to avoid firewall issues.

Full text search

Used ready-made, open source component called Lucene for implementing full text search in the system

Encryption of content and data

Encrypted the content using classes from Java Crypto package

Freely distributable database management system in order to save licensing cost per client

Used free and open source PostgreSQL as RDBMS, that follows BSD license

Technology Environment:

PostgreSQL, Java 1.4.2, Jakarta Tomcat 5.0, JSP, Servlet