Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London [January 26, 2011] InvestTech Systems Consulting, Inc., the leading Investment Technology and Investment Operations consulting firm for institutional investment managers, and an Advent Certified consulting partner, completed a mission critical platform migration for Analytic Investors, an institutional asset manager focused on quantitative based investment strategies.

InvestTech's Sean Rahbari, a Certified Advent Consultant, assisted in the implementation and explains, "the client's plan called for an accelerated implementation schedule to achieve parallel processing within weeks of the project start date. We suggested the use of IrionDQ, a rapid data integration, data quality platform, to meet Analytic's objectives."

"It was a perfect fit for the IrionDQ solution," Mr. Rahbari continued. "We created a data map between Analytic's current software environment and Advent APX to facilitate the daily processing of transactions, prices and positions. This allowed InvestTech to train the Analytic staff using same-day production data. The staff learned the new Advent APX system quickly and the process allowed the project team to fine tune the daily and periodic workflows in real-time. This resulted in an accelerated conversion and a higher state of readiness prior to the production cutover."

Working closely on this implementation were Analytic Directors Dennis Roy and Mark Arredondo. Mr. Arredondo commented, "InvestTech was able to substantially accelerate adoption of the Advent APX solution and to significantly reduce implementation costs."

Mr. Roy continued, "IrionDQ was a valuable resource and significantly contributed towards the success of our systems conversion. The ability to quickly transfer data between legacy infrastructure and new systems allowed us to rapidly enter a true parallel processing environment. The ease of maintaining this environment provided our staff more time to learn the system in depth and formulate efficient processing, reporting, and reconciliation workflows."