The B-One system has been voted "Best Performance and Attribution Product" at the 2009 Buy Side Technology Awards. What do you think were the biggest contributors to this success?
Winning this award for the second successive year is, I believe, a testimony of the investment BI-SAM has made in making B-One the leading service-oriented open technology platform providing superior performance reporting and analytics functionality. As an example, B-One provides five different Fixed Income Attribution methodologies offering our clients the most appropriate methodology according to their specific investment process. Another major contribution to this success is our commitment to work closely and collaboratively with our clients, particularly through the implementation process, to offer a full support service and continuously enhance our functionalities based on mutual interests and work.
Can you please give us some insights of what is in the pipeline for your B-One product?
Innovation is a key focus for Bi-Sam. We are continuously and heavily investing to improve our product and to add new functionality to meet evolving market expectations. Each new major B-One versions every year includes a significant new functionality. For example, our product roadmap for 2010 includes a Front Office module offering new capabilities in providing analysis directly to Portfolio Managers. Further development of our Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Risk module, will help asset managers enhance their enterprise-wide risk management capabilities. Finally, our new GIPS module is also a key development this year and will support our clients in complying with 2010 GIPS standards.
You now have a global expansion strategy. Please tell us some more about this.
We have come a long way, thinking back to the early 2000's, when BI-SAM opened its first office in Compiègne! Our European expansion started with our first clients in London and subsequently opening our London office. Since then, we have also opened offices in Luxemburg and in Switzerland in order to serve our Benelux and Swiss clients. In 2008, we have opened an office in New York and, last year also in Hong Kong. We are now offering our product more broadly to these strategic markets and have consequently expanded our ability to service asset management companies in these regions. We already have clients in New-York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Our global expansion has meant making strategic organisational changes, including new appointments in each region and establishing a 24*7 hours support infrastructure to enable our clients face their global challenges.
Automation with flexibility in the client reporting service offering to clients is always at the heart of any asset manager's solution. How does B-One help here?
A fully automated approach is one of our main advantages. B-One's client reporting module allows asset managers to build their own reports and fact sheets through an easy-to-use platform with a report components library without any IT support required. We have recently enhanced our full client reporting capabilities to provide further flexibility for our clients. This offers customised process flow control and monitoring of the production process through our workflow module. As well as multiple output formats, data checks, aggregation options and unlimited flexibility in instrument and portfolio classifications.
Rapid-fire section
What is your favourite sport?
Football, Tennis, Ski... Not Golf!
What's the last DVD you watched?
Sex and the City
If you won the lottery, what would be the first thing you buy? Hummm..., no, not a competitor, Man United?
The French Alps is a favoured spot for European skiing. Do you get to ski very often?
If I can, every weekend... I will be there from 26/02 to 7/03... please join me
Renault, Peugeot or Citroen?
Mercedes
France is world-renowned for its cooking. Did you ever consider being a chef as a career instead?
It is already the case at home!
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