The Lombard Odier Group is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. With nearly 1,900 employees, the group has a presence in the world’s main financial centers and a network of 24 offices in 17 countries. BACKGROUND Years ago, Lombard Odier created its own portfolio management system. Then, in the mid-1990’s, the company’s homegrown mainframe-based system was becoming out of date. It was extremely simple and batch-oriented, which meant that users had to wait each day to see the numbers that were calculated overnight before making critical financial decisions. Lombard Odier decided to replace its old mainframe-based system with a Windows-based modernization, which required an entire system rewrite on the server and the client side. They needed a much more interactive solution without

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