A key strength of Composer is that it can be deployed in a real-time market data management configuration, to serve as a ticker plant or the foundation of a full-scale market data business operation. Composer has been implemented at some of the world’s largest exchanges, performing with mission-critical reliability.

Composer is a complete real-time data management software infrastructure, designed to manage data acquisition from multiple diverse sources, conduct automatic data validation, create derived and enhanced data, and distribute it through multiple feeds to application databases, repositories and directly to third-party distribution channels such as data vendors.

Composer offers many benefits as a real-time platform, including:

• Proven, low-risk technology for data management and controlled distribution
• Flexible data integration, from multiple internal and external sources
• Entitlements-based data distribution through multiple protocols
• Web publishing to support end-user applications and portals
• Full scalability, through hardware and processing power
• High availability and mission-critical fault tolerance configuration
• Online performance fine-tuning
• Easy monitoring of system processes through graphical user interfaces
• Data schema independence
• Flexible, powerful content packaging functionality
• Data validation and exception-flagging
• Full audit trail and backup
• Extensibility to accommodate your organization’s growth and integration requirements