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At Harco we don't see these two systems as being in competition.
DART is complementary to DACS. The market data teams at customer
sites like MSDW, Deutsche and Salomon Smith Barney have discovered
that DACS alone is not adequate to run an efficient market data
environment. They use DART to add value to DACS in the following
ways.
DACS holds a limited duration of usage. Many DACS users can hold
about 2 months worth of usage. DART can hold several years worth
of usage and this allows our clients to perform historical and trend
analysis.
DACS is often slow when reporting on usage. DART will return results
almost immediately and is, therefore, a much more useful tool for
the day-to-day work of a market data administrator.
DART is fully integrated with cost inventory and can show the COST
of unused services at all levels of the organisation (not just the
DACS admin group, cost center etc). This is fundamental to the efficient
management of market data - cost inventory systems is where all
significant user hierarchy and cost information resides. DACS doesn't
have cost.
It's difficult to write your own reports with DACS. You can create
high quality bespoke reports in DART and many of our clients do
just this.
DART covers the current major market data platforms - Triarch, TIB,
RMDS and Bloomberg. We have also extended DART to handle proprietary
market data systems and web delivered market data. For many of our
clients DART is providing a single unified report on market data
usage at a trader's desktop - regardless of the service provider.
DART is neutral. Would you ask vendors to provide a system that
will allow you to switch off their own unused services? The DART
"Product Best Fit" feature is a good example of this. It will allow
you to identify the cheapest vendor package for a trader based on
his or her usage of market data. In the Reuter environment it will
tell you whether a user is "Markets", "Treasury" or "Securities".
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