IPC Debuts Program to Support App Development

Unigy is a single, integrated platform for trading communications. It helps users enhance their income opportunities by bringing together apps that are important for trading communications.

Hoping to offer more possibilities with its Unigy trading communications platform, IPC (News - Alert) Systems has introduced its new app development partner program. This new program opens up the development environment and brings together communications, communications data and speech analytics.

IPC provides participants of the Affinity Partner Program (APP) with a full suite of development tools and services, including a software development kit, as well as a virtual "sandbox" test environment to fully take advantage of Unigy's Blue Wave Web Services API's. This will allow users to come up with their own collaboration and trading workflow applications. With the help of this Service Oriented Architecture framework, Unigy can be combined with numerous additional applications and features.

The new program will enable users to improve their business processes and workflow, enabling them to target products and solutions to specific business needs.

"The financial industry is moving toward a model favoring more open and integrated systems and IPC's Affinity Partner Program opens the door for market leading vendors to fully leverage the openness of the Unigy platform to develop innovative and powerful applications," Mark Miller, vice president, product management for IPC, said. "This move toward open systems is already helping to revolutionize the capital markets industry and the possibilities for development are almost endless.

IPC already provides numerous Unigy Blue Wave-based apps, which bring together the capabilities of Microsoft (News - Alert) Lync and SalesForce.com, while also providing many mobile applications for Apple iOS.

Recently, the company announced that its Financial Markets Network was selected as the "Best Sell-Side Trading Network" in Sell-Side Technology's first annual Sell-Side Technology Awards program.