The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has been defined as an open standards-based messaging means designed to provide interoperability between diverse proprietary and third-party applications and other finer-grained components, via simple standard adapters and interfaces. Although not yet a fully-fledged IT standards reality, the ESB in its current commercial software incarnations incorporates both synchronous and asynchronous types of communications protocols.

In simpler terms and from Sayula's solutions main point of view, the ESB provides software applications with real-time market data from diverse markets and vendors, and allows those applications to contribute and publish their own calculated data back to the ESB and to other ESB-connected market data distributors. Examples of market data ESB implementations are Reuters Triarch and RMDS, Tibco Rendezvous, Bloomberg BBComm Server, etc.

Figure 1.   Anima's two-way lightweight asynchronous connectivity to the ESB.

As illustrated by Figure 1, Sayula's Anima provides multi-vendor ESB market data connectivity via real-time lightweight asynchronous communication mechanisms. The true power of such solution resides in the generic nature and extensibility of Anima's underlying architecture. This means new implementations of market data vendor interfaces can be incorporated into the solution very quickly. Even in the case of non-standard interfaces, as for example enterprise-proprietary real-time servers or applications, the solution integration turnaround time is greatly minimized.