CASE STUDIES
MEDIA SENTRY
Recognos has built a product that allows high visibility companies to monitor, in a structured way, all media content published on the Internet that is of interest for the marketing and image departments of the Company.
Project Type:
Product Development
Business Need:
For marketing departments, it is sometimes very difficult, and always expensive, to monitor all press articles or references to their company, that appear in the main stream media. Large companies need a means to automatically monitor and categorize important articles referencing them, in order for them to respond in good time, to identify potential customers or business improvements.
Business Solution:
Recognos has developed a system that monitors the social media, online newspapers and reference blogs thus gathering real-time information on the brand impact on the market. The system makes use of Semantic Technologies to disambiguate and categorize articles, thus leveraging the power of the latest technologies in offering the companies the shortest possible time in the article review process.
Business Results:
The system is used by one of the largest financial investment companies in the US and is extremely appreciated by the client. At the moment, the system monitors over 100 websites, processes over 10,000 articles per day, of which several hundreds are categorized as important.
REBALANCING SYSTEM
Recognos has built a Portfolio Rebalancing System for a major financial market player in the US Investment Industry.
Project Type:
Custom Systems Development
Business Need:
As more and more individuals are investing on the capital markets, the investment company needed to prepare so as to be able to handle a significant growth in the number of managed accounts. Thus, fast action on multiple accounts, fast effectiveness of the Financial Research Team results over portfolios, and less manual, error-prone human intervention were identified as a must.
Business Solution:
Recognos has built a system that offers the company the ability to manage all accounts and all portfolios at the same time. Through a complex investment product (investment model) management system, the financial analysts are able to easily control trade generation across all accounts at the same time, for each of them using the appropriate, contract-based investment strategy.
Business Results:
Based on the portfolio Rebalancing System developed by Recognos, the US Investment Management Company was able to scale its business from USD 1.5 Billion in 1998, to $50 Billion in 2013, in terms of managed assets.