This work log details selected products, projects, experience and events we have participated in since we started working with investment advisors over twenty years ago. It is meant to be an informal, but informative accounting of what we do for our clients. Many of these solutions are still in use today. However, some have been replaced by solutions that we created later.
Created custom price tolerance program for quality control purposes. The price tolerance program is run each day in an effort to identify Axys pricing issues. Working off a comfort zone this program generates a list of price that fall outside of the range -- i.e. 10%.
Created price wizard utility utilizing a combination of Axys scripts, and macros with Visual Basic to automate the daily pricing process at various clients sites. The purpose of the price wizard is to utilize available prices from interface price and position files thereby minimizing the cost of pricing via IDC.
Created a simple program to generate quarterly reporting scripts and macros in Axys. The scripts and macros generated create report packages that are collated based on last name independent of whether accounts are grouped, or individuals.
Created program to manage report styles among multiple PCs. This program was created for Axys 1.0, and is no longer required for later versions of Axys.
For many years, we have supported the system design and automation needs of firms running the backoffice for other firms.
As an example, one of the firms we work with manages the backoffice accounting for many firms using Axys. All of the firms they support own and maintain multi-user Axys licenses, but the company works from a central Axys database. Some Axys information files are shared, but most are not. Axys users can go into any of the companies they service by simply clicking the appropriate Axys shortcut for that company
Axys reports, macros, scripts, VB, and VBA automation have been designed to leverage centralized processing whenever possible, but allow decentralized processing so the the backoffice staff can work on a given company independently when they want to. DXData downloads, pricing, ACD downloads, and conversions have all been automated.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 9:57PM Share Article Email Article in Backoffice, Reconciliation, Workflow Created a means of trading across consolidated families of accounts through the automated creation of consolidated relationship portfolios in Axys, and the use of those portfolios in earlier versions of Moxy.