Vichara's expertise spans three rich and dynamic disciplines - financial engineering, software engineering, and quantitative modeling - each characterized by seemingly nonstop innovation. Vichara applies this expertise to help its clients develop advanced technology solutions to implement new businesses and streamline existing ones.
Markets, Financial Products & Quantitative Methods
Structured MBS & ABS (CMOs/CDOs)
Fixed Income — Cash & Derivatives
Quantitative Finance — Interest Rate, Options, Risk, Statistical Arbitrage Modeling
Interest Rate Derivatives
Equities — Cash & Derivatives
FX — Cash & Derivatives
Commodities — Cash & Derivatives
IT Infrastructure Management
24x7 Production and Infrastructure Support Services
Server/Desktop/Network Management
Security Management
Virtualization
Storage Management
Data Protection - Backup and Recovery
Remote network and data center operations
Data Center Optimization & Consolidation
Software Engineering and Project Management
Analysis
Strategic Planning
Rapid Prototyping & Specification
System Architecture
Software Development & Maintenance
Performance Optimization
Development Environments and Tools
.Net, J2EE, CORBA, JMS, COM/DCOM,
All Major Relational & Object Databases
Various Middleware, IDEs
All Major Internet Technologies
Microsoft Windows, Unix
Grid Computing Frameworks like Digipede, Data Synapse, Oracle Coherence
OLAP Technologies
Business Intelligence Technologies
JavaSpaces
Financial Application Components
Quantitative Modeling — Vichara's own V* models, as well as Custom Models
Third Party Market Data & Middleware — Intex, Loan Performance, Bloomberg, Reuters, Telerate, Tibco, Case-Shiller/MRAC, 1010Data, Markit
Third Party & Open Source Analytics — RiskMetrics, Intex, AFT, TechHackers, QuantLib

Whether you are just beginning to think about developing a system or already immersed in coding, we can help. We work closely with your team at any stage of the development life cycle, adapting to your organizationís culture. We can assume full project management responsibility or provide top-notch technical professionals to work on specific tasks under your supervision.