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Nurturing Market Data Expertise

The CJC academy scheme plays a crucial role in our growth and success. It offers numerous benefits, including employee development, fostering a positive company culture, and enhancing recruitment strategies.

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EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT

The Academy has been a core aspect of CJC since 2012. In 2023, CJC revolutionised the academy structure, contributing towards CJC receiving the 'Most Innovative Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy' award by A-Team Group in 2024.

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ACADEMY TIMELINE

Providing capital market technology training since 2005, CJC formalised an academy in 2012 as a standard part of an employee's lifecycle. A relationship was established with global universities, providing training to regions worldwide.

By 2016, CJC's Academy encompassed all departments (technical and commercial), which has successfully trained and fostered talents in leadership positions at CJC and beyond.

Overhauled in 2022-2023 to enhance inclusivity, the Academy became open to those returning to work, career changers, ex-military and individuals unable to attend university. CJC's Academy is a crucial part of the organisation's wider DEI strategy, receiving industry recognition from the A-Team in 2024.

ACADEMY OVERVIEW

The Academy is supported by a dedicated learning and development (L&D) team. It has proven to develop, train and propel staff onto successful careers at CJC and beyond.

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THE L&D TEAM

The L&D team is supported by CJC's Co-Founder and former CTO Paul Tomblin, recognised as among the best trainers in the capital markets. CJC's Academy leverages a pool of resources from active teams in technical operations, engineering, and commercial management.

THE PROGRAM

The Academy program provides a structured syllabus and is delivered in both an office and online setting for maximum availability.

The digital learning platform assesses the participant's knowledge and tracks the progress of each Academy participant, enabling a pace that suits their individual needs.

BEYOND THE ACADEMY

The Academy is ingrained into CJC's culture and has provided a platform for many to start a career in market data and financial services. Alumni have achieved great success, progressing rapidly up the ranks in CJC for some and enhancing career prospects beyond CJC.

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INVESTING IN PEOPLE

Aside from the syllabus, Academy students may attend industry events for networking and exposure to industry-expert-led panels.

Beyond the Academy program, CJC provides fiscal support to staff and works with established organisations like FISD, ITIL, PRINCE2 & CIPD, CCNA, MIP and more to facilitate the provision of industry and globally recognised qualifications.

THE RESULTS

Academy graduates have since progressed into Team Leaders, Managers, Senior Developers, Consultants, Senior Analysts, and Specialist Auditors. These are just some of the existing roles at CJC and beyond at various major financial institutions.

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For more information or to register your interest, please email academy@cjcit.com and a team member will reach out shortly.

Clarity in a data-rich world

mosaicOA is a powerful IT analytics SaaS solution that brings large data sets together in one place, so you can analyze and gain invaluable insight into your critical, capital markets infrastructure.

HOLISTIC MONITORING TOOLS IN DEMAND

With the growth of more segmented and cloud-centric IT architectures, many financial services firms currently using a variety of monitoring tools are reassessing their whole monitoring platform. Given their frequent levels of frustration at the complexity of their estates, largely resulting from a growth in modularity driven by digital transformation, IT leaders are becoming increasingly aware of the need to adopt more holistic infrastructure monitoring tools to gain visibility into their changing IT landscape.

RAPID CRITICAL ISSUE IDENTIFICATION

IT analytics is the practice of monitoring systems and gathering, processing, analyzing and interpreting data from various sources to guide decisions and flag potential issues. In a recent CJC survey looking at attitudes and requirements around IT analytics in this sector, rapid identification of a major issue in their IT architecture, thereby facilitating a swifter resolution, was highlighted by 80% of respondents as being a critical benefit of this holistic monitoring, with ongoing problem management regarded as extremely useful.

DASHBOARD VISUALIZATION

mosaicOA, CJC’s IT analytics visualization tool, is effectively an insurance policy against unexpected infrastructure issues, giving clients the ability to rapidly pinpoint and deal with them before they cause expensive and potentially reputational, damage. mosaicOA collects all relevant data metrics and facilitates simultaneous dashboard visualization to establish the order of events and present a graphical overview of the situation.

FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR FOCUS

This tool is, uniquely, primarily focused on the global financial services sector and its broad use cases are based on the growing fundamental requirement for IT operational performance analysis and visualizations. mosaicOA facilitates the import and interrogation of large volumes of data, displayed in one place via easy-to-create dashboards.

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CUSTOMIZABLE AND INTERACTIVE DASHBOARDS

mosaicOA makes it easy to import and interrogate large volumes of data. By bringing data together in one place, true data capacity is visible through easy-to-create dashboards.

INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS AND ROBUST SEARCHES

If infrastructure data is not stored and analysed, there can be little control and certainty over capacity and IT costs. mosaicOA can process real-time data across multiple market data and messaging platforms, enabling deep infrastructure search and inspection.

How mosaicOA can help with capacity management

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CAPACITY MANAGEMENT FOR THE WORLDS MOST VOLATILE IT INFRASTRUCTURES

Capital markets IT systems are difficult to provide capacity management for. Systems are co-located in region and close to both the end-user and the exchanges. The systems are mainly utilized in ‘market hours’ Monday to Friday. During market hours, the systems handle the demands of users and data based on global financial impacting events. At any given moment, the system could have a 250% increase in usage. Outside of these market hours, these systems are essentially static. This vastly contrasting behaviour creates great challenges for capacity managers, IT executives and support teams who have to accurately predict their systems future health and stability. This can lead to both outages and costs to the over or under specification of a system. MosaicOA was designed to handle these demands like no other IT analytics system on the market.

INDEFINITE STORAGE FOR SHORT AND LONG TERM ANALYSIS

The cost-effective and indefinite storage of mosaicOA ensures that the entire server’s lifespan is recorded from the moment it is switched on to the day it’s retired; key CPU, Network, OS or application statistics are recorded. You can review the entire lifespan in seconds or compare the behaviour today to yesterday, last week or last month. This provides accurate projections on the upcoming behaviour be it later today or for the next 12 months. Mosaic comes with capabilities to remove non-market hours which is proven to add 30% accuracy to its results. Mosaic was able to predict Covid-19 volatility behaviours 2 weeks in advance.

BUILT-IN DATA SCIENCE

A major feature of Mosaic is its ability to perform data science and advanced sorting techniques. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), mosaicOA continually reviews your servers, providing a rating ‘temperature’ which identifies the servers undergoing a sudden utilization shift. This machine led approach cannot be achieved through standard IT monitoring or human-led analytics. You can find out which servers and applications are over-utilized before they crash.

VISUALIZATIONS DESIGNED BY THE INDUSTRIES BEST

FASTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE PROBLEM MANAGEMENT IT executives and their support teams are responsible for the uptime of varied platforms, infrastructures and applications in the capital markets; they need to ensure they are “always-on” against strict SLAs and KPIs. Outages cause severe impacts and costs to businesses.

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FASTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE PROBLEM MANAGEMENT

IT executives and their support teams are responsible for the uptime of varied platforms, infrastructures and applications in the capital markets; they need to ensure they are “always-on” against strict SLAs and KPIs. Outages cause severe impacts and costs to businesses.

Traditional tooling, such as IT monitoring only goes so far, especially while hundreds of thousands of IT events and metrics are created every hour. By storing these IT events and metrics, mosaicOA provides IT teams incredible power to understand real infrastructure behaviour.

Out of the box, mosaicOA can connect to your IT monitoring systems and restful APIs and store your IT metrics and events to a powerful, time-series database; ideal for the demands of IT analytics. The data is visualized via a browser-based interface, which puts the executives and support teams in the driving seat.

REPLAY YOUR EVENTS, MANAGE YOUR ISSUE

When issues occur, thousands of event messages come from a multitude of systems in a matter of seconds - this floods support teams with information. The storage of this data, against an accurate timestamp, means the events can be replayed immediately, so engineers can see when and how the event started and its consequential behaviour. This avoids false identification and reduces the mean time to resolution.

IDENTIFY TRENDS TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE

Data science techniques are applied to the events to provide a view of system behaviour unlike any other. Using heatmaps to pull out trends over hours, days, weeks or months, provides IT executives the power to direct their teams’ focus on specific infrastructure or application areas. This level of event understanding is proven to ensure issues are never missed and uptimes are increased.

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PRE-BUILT DASHBOARDS FOR LEADING PLATFORMS

From Bloomberg BPIPE, Refinitiv RTDS (TREP) and Exegy to Quant House, Kafka and Solace, along with many more, mosaicOA has ready-made dashboards for you and your team.

DATA VISUALIZATION FOR EVERYONE

Typically, IT analytics and data visualization is exclusive for those with advanced development or database query skills but Mosaic is for everyone. Its front end puts you in control of the data and gives you the ability to create dashboards. The browser-based GUI lets users query their data via a drag and drop functionality. Visualizations can be changed with the click of a button, rather than requiring written code or queries. Dashboards can be made from scratch from the powerful workbench. Developers and Database experts still can use their skills however, with the front end providing the access to query the data directly.

EMBEDDED ANALYTICS

Mosaic is designed to be integrated and controlled by third-party applications and systems. Do you need a mosaic visualization in your trader’s workstation? Do you need mosaic on your Intranet/SharePoint/Teams or Salesforce? No problem. Mosaic can be controlled from easy-to-understand URL commands which can be added via a variety of protocols including http, xml, CSS and many more.

AUTOMATED REPORTS AND PDF’S

IT executives demand high-quality reporting. The power of a concise report can be the difference between action and inaction or achieving a recommended IT budget. Operations and Engineering teams need reports to quickly review as part of weekly scrum meetings. Mosaic comes with an easy-to-use reporting template to export the visualizations into a PDF. Once the template is completed, the reports can be scheduled or run on-demand.