Easy Data Management for a Complex World

Key benefits for buy-side institutions

Data is the lifeblood of the investment management industry. With Fencore DataHub, a next-generation data management platform focused on the buy-side, you can support business operations and investment decisions with high-quality data flowing through your systems, and save time and costs by automating manual processes.

Our intuitive systems are built for the most critical data challenges that asset managers and owners face, and allow self-service control over data and workflows while providing security oversight and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Our platform is flexible and efficient, and is designed to take on both large or small use cases cost-effectively. Cost savings and ROI are created whether you are building out your core data masters or meeting a more specific operational requirement.

• Stay competitive with improved operations and a reliable single source of truth
• Automate processes to save time and costs
• Benefit from fully audited and transparent data lineage
• Granular controls over user access to protect sensitive data
• Meet reporting requirements
• Reduce risks
• Future-proof data operations for changing requirements

DataHub is built for the buy-side: asset managers, wealth managers and family offices, asset owners, service providers and fund administrators, and alternative investment managers.

End-to-end buy-side workflows and data pipelines

Fencore DataHub has buy-side industry best practices woven into its design. Our end-to-end flow philosophy means you can get up and running quickly, with dashboards readily available for investment professionals and data teams, and easily configurable data pipelines supporting them at the back end.

1. Make connecting to any system or database easy via our universal connectors
2. Ensure that high-quality data is in your environment by validating imported data
3. Create a single source of truth with our matching, mastering, and reconciliation engines
4. Create fit-for-purpose data sets with flexible data transformation capabilities
5. Provide seamless buy-side dashboard workflows, for example performance and ESG monitoring
6. Design and create custom visual reports using our report designer
7. Automatically update reports with latest data
8. Keep track of tasks and important dates with the Kanban board
9. Perform critical data management tasks with data alerts management, override workflow, and four-eye approval
10. Support data governance with metadata management, automated data lineage, and audit trail
11. Improve security with granular controls over user and system access to data and user interfaces

Lightweight deployments, interoperability, and no-code

Lightweight and fast deployments

We offer two deployment models: public cloud and private cloud. Your environment will be up and running in hours rather than days or weeks with either option. In addition, a managed-services option is available for IT and business process outsourcing.

Built for interoperability and quick results

Fencore DataHub was built to quickly connect and work with existing systems and databases in your environment, including other data management systems, in order to make transition and migration seamless.

Out-of-the-box functionalities

Many functionalities and dashboards come out of the box with minimal configuration needed to get up and running. This includes instrument and fund masters dashboards, the reporting engine, a data alerts dashboard which highlights data quality and business validation issues, and manual override and four-eyes approval workflows that provide vital governance control.

Use cases we support include Operational Data Store, Public/Private Markets Data, Product Master, Investment Accounting Master, and Sustainability Master.

Technology

• Distributed, rapidly scaling cloud technology with high-volume capability
• Container and microservices-based architecture
• Compatible with any public or private cloud provider
• Latest generation of UI technology
• Support for popular database types, data warehouse/lake providers, data management systems, investment workflow systems, and accounting systems

Intuitive no-code interfaces

Fencore DataHub’s user-friendly and robust features make data management painless and easy, while greatly lowering implementation and maintenance time and cost. Our no-code, drag-and-drop interfaces mean much less technical expertise is required than in the past for creating and customising data pipelines and workflows.

Connectivity to data vendors

DataHub is able to build universal connectors to new data vendors in minutes. Whether using file-based loads or APIs, we have extensive expertise in connecting to Bloomberg, ICE, SIX, Refinitiv, FactSet, IHS Markit and MSCI amongst many others. If we do not have an existing connector to your preferred vendor or system we will build it with you.

Connector types and formats include webservice/API, message queue, direct database, Excel, email, CSV, JSON, XML, and more.

Standalone platform: FenDQ

FenDQ is a standalone, lightweight data quality system that tracks and measures the quality of data sets, and allows users to resolve data issues. No matter if you are operating on spreadsheets or multi-system setups, plug FenDQ into your data pipelines and benefit from improved data quality and governance.

Plug-and-play integration

There is no need to change your existing architecture as FenDQ integrates with your systems and databases as they are today. All that is needed is to connect to your data sources and you are ready to configure your data quality rulesets.

• Highly visual, user-friendly display of data quality statistics
• Monitoring of data quality and accuracy
• Prioritisation of data issues by impact on business
• No-code configuration of data validation and business rules
• Intelligent exception management

Standalone platform: FenRecon

FenRecon is a reconciliation module that comes shipped with Fencore DataHub, but is now available as a product with a standalone licence due to demand. Critical reconciliation of data sets is made easy with user-friendly workflows that allow middle and back-office end users to set up and make changes to the FenRecon engine rapidly.

Easy scalability

The same underlying architecture of Fencore DataHub runs in FenRecon, allowing for flexible scaling, and streamlining of your data by easily connecting to data sources across your organisation’s departments.

• Proprietary reconciliation engine
• AI data matcher
• Configurable nominal or percentage thresholds
• Intelligent exception management