Immense quantities of data and information compete daily for the attention of those charged with making the best decisions for their clients’ assets.
Inside there, somewhere, may be ‘alpha gold’.
But filtering this vast stream of data to extract critical and timely information is a question of experience.
And also technology.
The platform provides an authoring environment drawing on a broad range of information sources:
To be useful, information must be findable and speed is of the essence.
Méthode uses AI and ML technologies to tag and classify incoming content in ways that maximise its findability and value to each investment operation.
As analysts assemble the reporting they have distilled from the market input, several users can work in parallel on the same report – accelerating the workflow.
There is only one copy of the report and all users see it updated in real time. This ‘single copy’ principle is fundamental to both the precision and the productivity of the operation.
Pull in live values from external sources so that data and models are constantly updated.
Seamless integration of Excel, Python and R modelling into report packages.
These checks and validations accelerate the passage from discovery to decision-making, while ensuring that all output complies with the organization’s procedures and standards.
Reporting that drives investment decisions must be accurate, complete and, above all, compliant.
Normally this is ensured through manual processes of review and supervision that further delay investment decisions, while absorbing the time of senior staff.
Méthode eliminates all but the most high-level supervision tasks through a range of intelligent workflow controls:
A system of permissions ensures that only permitted actions can be carried out by authorized users at each stage in the reporting process.
There are checkpoints in the workflow that prevent reporting being released until some action has been carried out – a legal check, for example, or the insertion of a chart.
Every time a user saves an item, a new version is created. This creates a complete audit trail of changes with clear responsibility for each action and allowing rapid recovery from erroneous interventions.
To maximise the global availability of the reporting created by analyst teams, Méthode distributes all production through a digital content hub.
This generates a complete range of formats from a brief newsflash in a smartphone messaging app to a web portal with interactive graphics or a conventional PDF document.
All of these delivery formats are generated automatically from a common content base and require no action from authoring staff.
All reporting is immediately available on any kind of device at any location.
Méthode maximizes the value of users’ existing skillsets and screen real estate by giving researchers and analysts a familiar office UI/UX, based on Windows usability guidelines
Mobile applications use the same design library, easing the passage between the two environments.
Méthode supports compliance with European GDPR legislation, SEC regulations and Web accessibility best practices.
Eidosmedia is a founding member of the RIXML consortium, establishing standard XML formats for investment research.
Eidosmedia solutions are used to create and manage fast-moving financial intelligence in some of the world’s most demanding environments. They include: