Comprehensive Investment Data Management

In today's increasingly complex investment environment, data management remains fractured for many asset management companies. Information is moved routinely and inefficiently from one system to another as managers seek to generate statistics, create reports, or manage portfolios. Such movement introduces errors, leads to inconsistent formulas, and wastes valuable time and effort.

Isis Financial Systems designed IMS as an integrated system, combining portfolio accounting and portfolio management into one solution. As such, we service a wide variety of investments that cover the needs of the front, middle, and back offices with a single industry-standard database. With IMS, data is accurate and consistent for each user; there is only one security master.

IMS makes extensive use of user-defined fields to enhance the value of client-specific information. User-defined fields are added easily to most data items in the system, including portfolios, instruments, transactions, issuers, raters, brokers, and custodians. As more data is tracked in IMS, these fields become an important data-management resource.

A comprehensive instrument base and broad selection of transactions provides a complete record of activity. Flexible reporting capabilities enable users to analyze, calculate, and report on any data contained in the system.

Data Integration:

IMS provides a complete set of XML import and export tools, through which most data items can be transferred. Import prices, rates, factors, or exchange rates. Export transactions, positions, or analytics. Validation procedures ensure that imported data is consistent and complete; MS/SQL provides direct access to data when validation and accounting is unnecessary. IMS can process transactions from many sources, including clients, custodians, outside record keepers, external trading systems, and trustees. Data management is both comprehensive and flexible with our solution.

Efficient Data Management:

• Powerful query capabilities enable quick display from many perspectives.
• Access our large library of reports and report-implementation services.
• Alter reports easily to suit any goal.
• View and report historical information for any time frame – IMS maintains a complete historical record of transactions, interest accruals, amortization, ratings, and more.
• Analyze portfolios from any perspective, including future "what if" scenarios, using IMS' powerful formula engine.
• Significantly reduce the need to export data to spreadsheets, and eliminate their inherent inefficiencies.
• With IMS' SQL data-archiving capabilities, accountants, portfolio managers, and administrators can obtain a centralized store of published information for a variety of external uses.
• Create spreadsheet-like queries and export them to Word, Excel, PDF, email, or Crystal Reports.

IMS features tools that provide the functionality you expect on demand: performance measurement, portfolio modeling, yield-curve analysis, and flexible reporting. Pertinent information is available to each user from one centralized database, eliminating the need to move data back and forth to other systems in order to perform basic analysis and reporting.