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DART Usage Tools

DART Data Management is the market-leading analysis and reporting suite of solutions designed to empower clients to efficiently manage and reduce their market data spend.

  • DART for Bloomberg provides a complete picture of Bloomberg usage to help clients better manage their terminal spend. It accurately identifies unused and underused subscriptions and exchanges in term of days used, total requests made and functionality so that clients can cancel or reallocate subscriptions. Value added reports provide insight into how terminals are being used including user and desk profiling, exchange and third party services reporting, peer-to-peer benchmarking, usage heat maps and multi-vendor rationalization reports.

    Client’s market data teams can use the managed service detailed usage profiling reports to analyze messaging, function type, daily heat maps, exchange usage and other in-depth analysis reports.

    DART for Bloomberg is used in over 40 of the world’s top tier banking trading floors, monitoring usage on 50,000 Bloomberg terminals. By optimizing their Bloomberg subscriptions, some clients have seen savings exceeding $2,000,000.

    Benefits

    • Cost savings through identification of unused and underused Bloomberg subscriptions
    • Easy deployment across multiple regions globally
    • Managed Service minimizes the administrative overhead of the market data team
    • Categorize Bloomberg usage into profile classifications

    Features

    • Identify unused and underused Bloomberg subscriptions, in terms of days used, requests made or functionality
    • Record all Bloomberg screens, Launchpad, DDE and RTD usage including tickers, sectors and messaging
    • Easily identify unused Exchanges and third party entitlements
    • Full support for Bloomberg Anywhere subscriptions
    • Drill down to detailed reports showing actual Bloomberg requests
    • Graphical dashboard summary per user and department
    • Daily usage heat maps
    • Advanced proprietary mappings profile Bloomberg usage
    • Automatic interfaces to cost inventory - MDSL, FITS, INFOmatch, FinOffice

  • DART for Reuters provides the comprehensive information required for fast efficient usage reporting, entitlement management, cost optimization and ongoing cost avoidance. It reports on RMDS, TIBCO Classic and Rendezvous®, and other market data distributed over RMDS such as BPOD and internal applications. Clients can easily identify unused and underused exchanges and third party entitlements and have unused services automatically unsubscribed. DART for Reuters also efficiently stores and reports on years of historical data based on client requirements.

    DART for Reuters monitors usage on over 40,000 Reuter’s subscriptions worldwide and has enabled some of our existing clients to reduced their costs by 30%.

    Benefits

    • Reduce or eliminate costs by rapidly analyzing actual data usage and identifying under used exchange subscriptions
    • Simplify exchange and vendor reporting requirements
    • Easily switch off unused services with automatic de-permissioning
    • Business analysis reporting
    • Available as an onsite software solution or as a managed service
    • Easily archive and report on decades of entitlements and usage history

    Features

    • Audit Trail, Datascope application usage, simultaneous connections (MISU) and Bloomberg B-Pipe/BPOD over RMDS reporting
    • Best Fit reports enable comparison of current high-end product entitlements against lower end, lower cost products. For example, identify current Reuters 3000Xtra subscriptions that could be replaced with the lower cost Reuters Wealth Manager
    • Store and report on long durations of history quickly based client parameters (DACS typically stores only 30 days of usage)
    • Reports are highly graphical and export to Excel
    • Full integration with cost inventory so that service utilization or under utilization is shown with costs and organizational structure
    • Automatic interfaces to cost inventory - MDSL, FITS, INFOmatch, FinOffice
    • Report on RMDS, TIB, RV, BPod over RMDS, internally written applications and services like DDS etc.