Rapid Addition Launches New Web UI to Simplify Trading Workflow Deployment and Monitoring

17 September 2024 – LONDON – Rapid Addition, a leading provider of trading technology solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of its latest productivity innovation, RA Web UI.

Designed to simplify how financial firms build and manage trading workflows, the RA Web UI offers an easy-to-use workflow configuration and monitoring frontend for the RA Platform. The modern, web-based interface eliminates the need for heavy desktop installation, streamlines version upgrades, and enhances user experience.

Solving the Challenges of Trading Infrastructure Management

Legacy trading systems can hinder firms’ responsiveness to client needs and market events, often requiring highly skilled teams to configure platforms, implement changes, and onboard counterparties. This results in prolonged time-to-market, poor client experience, and increased operational risk.

The RA Web UI directly addresses these challenges by providing a user-friendly, highly intuitive, and flexible front-end interface. Users can quickly set up customised workflows and make intra-day changes without relying on overloaded development resources.

Once live, managing order flow and trading activity can be another major challenge. Large volumes of orders, trades, and other counterparty interactions require constant monitoring to ensure that any issues are quickly identified and resolved. Delays can lead to failed trades, dissatisfied clients, and ultimately, lost revenue or even fines. The RA Web UI offers real-time transparency of all data flow across trading infrastructure, allowing users to efficiently drill down from consolidated blotters to individual child order details, as well as sending user-configured alerts and notifications.

Feature-Rich and User-Centric Design

RA Web UI is packed with features designed to meet the needs of today’s demanding business environments:

• Workflow Configuration – unique visual workflow diagrams and code-assist capabilities enable quick counterparty onboarding, routing rule definition, data transformation, and other value-added functions using customer-defined business logic.
• Monitoring and Alerts – highly configurable monitoring views provide real-time oversight of trading activity, with customisable notifications and alerts to help users rapidly identify and resolve potential issues.
• Zero-install – runs seamlessly in a standard web browser, eliminating the need for desktop installation and simplifying the deployment of upgrades. As a web-based application, it is particularly beneficial for users working remotely or across different locations.
• Customisable and Scalable – the RA Web UI is fully configurable, with user-defined grids, themes, and layouts. It supports multiple platforms from a single interface, including cross-regional deployments. Running on Kubernetes, the backend is easily scalable to meet the demands of any trading environment.
• Enhanced User Experience – with a modern look and feel, RA Web UI is designed to be intuitive, even for non-developers when in build mode. This ensures a seamless user experience, whether developers, traders, trading support teams, or even counterparties, ensuring all stakeholders have unprecedented levels of transparency and control.

A Competitive Edge in Electronic Markets

RA Web UI positions Rapid Addition at the forefront of the ongoing trend away from heavy desktop applications towards lightweight, web-based solutions. The product aligns with modern UI expectations, offering a sleek, intuitive interface that resonates with today’s users. Moreover, the integrated Git system streamlines the business logic workflow, setting RA Web UI apart from its competitors.

RA Web UI is aimed at developers, product managers, and end-users including business analysts, support teams, and trading desk staff. It offers significant benefits, including faster time to design and deploy trading workflow, along with enhanced transparency and control of trading infrastructure, all through a single, user-friendly interface.

Positive Early Feedback and Future Enhancements

Early adopters have praised RA Web UI for its ease of use, noting that the new Git integration significantly improves workflow processes. Looking ahead, Rapid Addition plans to enhance RA Web UI with additional features, including integration with popular third-party analytics and monitoring tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf. Additionally, a partnership with ipushpull is in the works to enhance the product’s desktop alerting capabilities.

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About Rapid Addition

An early pioneer in the development of advanced electronic trading technology, Rapid Addition is recognised as a market leader in financial messaging protocols and scalable middleware. Our asset class- and protocol-agnostic platform provides a foundational building block for firms to design trading capabilities unique to their requirements.

Architected to accelerate the deployment of customer-defined business logic and IP, the RA Platform gives financial organisations the freedom to implement a broad spectrum of dynamic workflows through our low-code development framework. Whether on-prem or in the cloud, Rapid Addition’s open platform is fully interoperable with the customer’s wider technology ecosystem, supporting future business strategy in whichever direction it may take.