Eikos Partners Announces EPCatalyst for the
Financial Services Market
Eikos Framework Enables Fast Start, Rapid Delivery of Microsoft Silverlight Applications for the
Financial Industry
July 13, 2010 08:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time
NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Eikos Partners (www.eikospartners.com), a specialist in designing
and developing Silverlight applications for the financial industry, today announced EPCatalyst, a rapid development
platform created to deliver sophisticated Microsoft Silverlight-based applications.
The major EPCatalyst framework component manages the Silverlight display objects, or “widgets.” Within the
display framework, the EPCatalyst widgets take on the overall theme, and perform direct business functions. Using
the services of the display platform, widgets can interact with services in other parts of EPCatalyst, or with each
other to create an intuitive response to user interactions. For customization purposes, Eikos Partners designed the
EPCatalyst with many generic widgets.
“Our goal was to reduce the time, costs and risks of building new Silverlight solutions, or adding them to an existing
systems infrastructure,” said David Lattimore-Gay, Senior Partner, Eikos Partners. “EPCatalyst represents a stable
platform, with all the display, communication, data, process management and integration tools needed to build
sophisticated Silverlight applications that are essential for the financial industry.”
The framework also contains other key elements that financial services rely upon such as Database, CEP, Business
Intelligence (BI) and Reporting & Document Management components. These are all connected by a communication
layer that functions as a service bus, and provides connection over the intranet and Internet. EPCatalyst is
structured to ensure technology choice remains open, and has wide ranging flexibility to add new functions and
interactions. Interaction with data and services that are provided by an existing systems infrastructure or by extern