SIA Showstoppers

This year's Securities Industry Association's Technology Management Conference & Exhibit in New York will feature a range of product launches and other announcements. A brief list follows:

Acquire Media will be showing its NewsTrade product line and news impact ratings, which pinpoint news stories likely to move markets. It will also be exhibiting its new filter library.

Freebies: bottled water, Hershey's chocolate bars and folding pocket pens.

Aleri Labs is demonstrating new functionality on the Aleri Streaming Platform, such as an enhanced graphical authoring environment, greater processing throughput, reductions in latency and easier integration with off-the-shelf applications.

Celent will display released reports covering Reg NMS and MiFID, prime brokerage technology, and best execution in NYSE markets as well as a new report on e-trading in the interest rate swaps market.

Freebies: a raffle for a gift certificate to Union Square Café.

Comtex News Network will debut the latest version of CSTADirect and display Comtex SmarTrend Alerts and a suite of financial news sources, including Midnight Trader and theflyonthewall.com. The news products will also be on view at the booths of Comtex's partners.

Freebies: Comtex Carabiner. There will also be a Las Vegas slot machine, and winners of the jackpot can take home a portable DVD player.

CounterpartyLink will be discussing the two latest products and the processes used to maintain them and showing sample data.

Freebies: pens.

Dow Jones is showing its new news license, which allows companies to integrate Dow Jones News into their infrastructure; its Dow Jones Total Coverage news and information tool, which features filtering and alerting technology; and Dow Jones NewsPlus.

DSTi will be highlighting its global accounting platform, risk management and performance measurement solutions and announcing a new partnership.

Freebies: a squeeze box Pandora (a digital radio device), squeeze toys and Sync cables.

FactSet is demonstrating its suite of products and solutions designed specifically for investment professionals, ranging from equity, fixed income and market analytics, to alpha generation and more. There will be two large screens displaying FactSet Marquee's real-time news and quotes.

Gissing will be launching RealtimeXL version 2.10.

Imtrader will be showcasing its first AIM-certified instant messaging platform for FIX trading, communications and research via AIM including IM alerts.

Freebies: T-shirts, golf balls, flavored mints, a set of golf irons with a golf bag plus photographs with the AOL running man.

InfoDyne is giving live demonstrations of its TPS+Plus low latency ticker plant system, including the display of various direct exchange feeds and integration of Bloomberg's B-Pipe. It will also be presenting its new "Latency Service" (see page 6) and launching the latest version of the Entitlements Service, which includes broader integration features and expanded data and user entitlement, auditing and reporting capabilities.

Freebies: memory sticks, logo-embossed golf balls.

Iokio is set to change its name to Visokio and launch Omniscope 2.0.

Kx will be releasing version 2.3 of kdb+tow, the application that enables traders to replay tick data more quickly, enabling them to take advantage of split-second market opportunities.

Markit will be demonstrating Hub Connex, its OTC derivative post-trade processing and counterparty and compliance solution.

Freebies: flashlight keychains and a raffle with the prize to be confirmed.

Representatives will be demonstrating Mergent's Web-based products.

Freebies: a prize draw to win an iPod Nano.

Progress Software will be exhibiting its Dashboard Studio, which is a graphical business activity monitoring dashboard designed to give traders real-time visibility into the performance of their algorithmic strategies.

Quodd will be displaying Quodd Equity +.

Relegence is showcasing Relegence Connect, Dow Jones Total Coverage and MailTrack and demonstrating its new partnership with youDevise, which will be announced at the show (see page 18).

Freebie: one-year subscriptions to the Mail Track product.

The inventory control software vendor will be showcasing its recently released FITS v3.24 and launching two new modules.

Freebies: goodies that will be a "hit".

Solace will be demonstrating new network-based managed service distribution of real-time market data content and announcing a partnership with a FIX software partner.

Freebies: a raffle for one of five iPod Nanos.

StreamBase will launch StreamSQL as a standard for unifying real-time and historical data (see page 20). There are two booths and at the second one, dubbed "Da Vinci Coder," attendees can register for the quest for the Da Vinci Coder contest to qualify for prizes and play games around the contest. Da Vinci Coder buttons will be distributed and attendees who are spotted at the conference wearing a button will receive a prize.

SunGard will be showing its entire product range, including Fame, PowerData and referencePoint.

Freebies: pens and mints.

Thomson is to display Thomson One and Thomson TradeWeb and release Thomson Portia version 8.0.

Freebies: a draw for an Apple HiFi dockable speaker sound system for an iPod.

Townsend Analytics will be demonstrating RealTick's API toolkit for black-box programming, in which RealTick data is used to populate third-party programs and execute trades. It will also be featuring RealTick version 8.4.

The booth will be reflective of the four company divisions: trading services, risk management, content services, and exchange services.

Freebies: mugs and golf balls.

Traderforce are displaying its four eponymous market data, execution management, risk management and wireless solutions as well as Open Publisher, which is a peer to peer solution for the financial community.

Freebies: USB keys, mints and pens and a raffle for a bottle of Ruinart champagne.

Vhayu will launch and demonstrate Velocity 6.0.