Providing vital visibility and analysis for smarter investment decisions Samuel Belu-John, CEO & Founder Anne Clark, Co-Founder www.seinanalytics.com
Jul 15, 2015
Providing vital visibility and analysis for smarter investment decisions
Samuel Belu-John, CEO & FounderAnne Clark, Co-Founder www.seinanalytics.com
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
INVESTOR FRUSTRATIONDifficult to manage and integrate vendors
COMPLICATED SOLUTIONSNo easy way to bring analytics and data together
CHANGING MARKETPush for greater disclosure and transparency
SOLUTION
SEIN ANSWERS CUSTOMER NEEDS
“…bring data and analytics together in a meaningful way to drive effective and controlled investment decisions…– Douglas Long, EVP Business Strategy, Principia Partners
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COMPETITION
Existing solutions require on-premise Online Application Processing (OLAP) model.
o Dependency on IT o Poor computational capabilities o Require pre-modeling
PRODUCT
o Reduced IT dependency o Strong computational capabilities o No pre-modeling
SEIN is built on a proven, scalable and secure enterprise framework and a virtualized datacenter
BUSINESS MODEL
GO-TO MARKETo 2 confirmed beta customers to participate in pilot program
o Expand pilot to include 5 customers
o Hire Head of Sales with existing relationships
o Develop strategic partnership with other finance companies, for example Open Gamma, who have the same customer base
5 YEAR PLAN
YEAR 1o Launch beta, test and sign contracts
with paying customers
o Raise $1.5 million to fund development
YEAR 5o Revenue of $65 million with around 200 customers
o Be considered the “standard” in the industry
o Merge with larger financial software vendor
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Revenues
Gross Income
Profit
3–21 customers
21–91 customers
21–158 customers
158–229 customers
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
PRESS
o Jan 2012: SEIN wins Grand Prize at the Google sponsored Gigabit Challenge and wins $100K
o Jan 2012: Profiled on TechCrunch and the San Francisco Chronicle
o Jun 2012: Received our certificate of registration and presented at Innotribe Belfast as a Semi-Finalist
o Nov 2012: Raised $80K+ with McKinsey & Company contracts to fund beta development
o May 2013: Participate in MassChallenge accelerator program in Boston
o Aug 2013: Closed friends and family funding round for $60K
o Sep 2013: David Smilow, founder of E*trade, joins SEIN’s board with 2 confirmed beta customers
o Sep 2013: Fannie & Freddie data added to application, enabling us to cover 50 million mortgages
o Sep 2013: Invited to participate in IBM’s Global Entrepreneur program
o Oct 2013: Presenting at the Canadian Conference Board’s Council of IT Professionals at MIT
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Samuel Belu-John, CEO & Founder
15 years experience as an ABS Portfolio Manger for hedge funds including NewStar Financial, Jefferson National Financial and positions at Barclay’s, Credit Suisse and Moody’s.
Anne Clark, Co-Founder & Head of Product Development
Expert in designing user experiences and applications for a diverse group of clients in the finance and technology industries including Fidelity, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Samsung and Microsoft.
David Smilow, Advisor
Former MD at Goldman Sachs, Founder of E*Trade and Founder of Jefferson National Insurance.
He will lead our sales efforts once we finalize his role as Chairman of the Board.
Maurice Kherlakian, Zend Technologies Developer
Experienced developer with Zend, the leading PHP
open source framework provider.
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CLOUD APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
1. DISCOVER PROBLEMo Identify project requirements, systems and people
o Modernize existing middleware by decoupling domain space model to improve agility
o Develop integration strategies to bridge gap between data and analytics to solve customer needs
2. DEFINE SOLUTIONo Friction-free deployment
o No machines or middleware to manage
o High productivity framework
o Cloud portability
3. DEVELOPMENT PROCESSo Choosing a Provider & Operating System
o Virtual Machine Set-up
o Data Warehouse Considerations
o Documentation
o Development Tools
o Source Control
o Workflow
OUR PROCESS
CURRENT: $280/MONTH (AWS) PILOT PROGRAM: $2,000/MONTH (SoftLayer/RightScale)
SEIN is a scalable, event driven platform built on an open architecture
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CHOOSING A PROVIDER
TRUSTCommon principles and connection with a provider
EXPERTISEProficienct technology and an understanding of your business
COMPLIANCEVerify a provider's capabilities with a compliance audit
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CHOOSING A PROVIDER
COST REDUCTIONS / OPTIMIZATION COST REDUCTIONS / OPTIMIZATION COST REDUCTIONS / OPTIMIZATION *
PROVIDERS PRICING PLANS AVERAGE MONTLY PRICE COST OF DATA TRANSFER/GB
Amazon Ec2 Pay-as-you-go, reserved, spot $66.43 $0.12
Rackspace Pay-as-you-go $116.8 $0.12
GoGrid Pay-as-you-go, monthly, semester, year $116.8 $0.12
Microsoft Azure Pay-as-you-go, semester, year $65.7 $0.155
Terremark Pay-as-you-go $138.9 $0.17
AT&T Pay-as-you-go $121.3 $0.1
Google Pay-as-you-go $42.42 $0.12
OpSource Pay-as-you-go, monthly $95.63 $0.15
Softlayer Pay-as-you-go, monthly $182.5 $0.1
HP Pay-as-you-go $87.6 $0.12
* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud PaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud PaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues
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CHOOSING A PROVIDER
SECURITY FEATURESSECURITY FEATURESSECURITY FEATURESSECURITY FEATURES EASE OF MIGRATIONEASE OF MIGRATION
PROVIDERS CERTIFICATION PROTECTION MONITORING STANDARDS VM UPLOAD
Amazon Ec2 Yes Medium Extensive Proprietary Yes
Rackspace Yes Medium Extensive OpenStack No
GoGrid No Medium Poor Proprietary No
Microsoft Azure Yes Medium Average HyperV Yes
Terremark Yes Medium Poor VMware Yes
AT&T Yes Medium Poor VMware Yes
Google Yes Medium Poor Proprietary No
OpSource Yes Medium Average VMware Yes
Softlayer Yes Medium Extensive OpenStack No
HP No Medium Poor OpenStack No
* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud IaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud IaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud IaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud IaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud IaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues* Source TechRepublic.com, Top Cloud IaaS Providers Compared by Thoran Rodrigues
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CHOOSING AN OPERATING SYSTEM
Operating systems and middleware that form the basis of PaaS
o Windows is growing at 3.2% while Linux is growing at 12.7% annually
o 76% of enterprises with investment in virtualization use Linux
o Linux has a large and growing community of developers
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VIRTUAL MACHINE SET-UP
Golden Master:o Consistency across cloud infrastructure
o Utilize cloud admin to deploy libraries and packages
o Requires minimal effort from end-user
Custom VM:o User has ability to customize the
VM - Chef or Puppet config tools
GOLDEN MASTER VERSUS CUSTOM VM
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VIRTUAL MACHINE SET-UP
o Migrating to RightScale cloud management
o Utilizing built-in-best practices for boot, operational and shutdown of VM
o Consistency => Efficiency => Quicker Updates => Client Specific Customization
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DATA WAREHOUSE CONSIDERATIONS
CLOUD DATABASE SPECTRUM: From Self-Service to DBaaS
User Responsible For:
o Maintenance
o Backup
o Failover
o Security
o DBMS Install
o Load Balancer
o DBMS Configure
o DBMS Automation
o DBMS Monitoring
User Responsible For:o Defining application needs for
Quality of Service
o Defining budget
DOCUMENTATION
KEEP TRACK OF EVERYTHING
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MEETINGNOTES
DESIGNCHANGES
ARCHITECTUREDECISIONS
BUSINESSLOGIC
OPTIONSo Evernote
o Google Keep
o Within Code Class:
- Dockblocks: business logic description
- Ticket System
- Source control comments
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DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: See Adam Culp’s full discussion on Clean Application Development at: http://www.slideshare.net/adamculp/clean-application-development-tutorial
SELECTIDE
USEFRAMEWORK
DEBUGGINGTOOLS
o PHPStorm
o Eclipse
o Pycharm
Forcing developers to all use the same OS leads to problems
o Vagrant
o Puppet
o Chef
All in one cloud management.
USE VMMACHINE
o Keeps code light
o Avoid proprietary framework
o Existing frameworks have large developer communities
o Fiddler
o Zend Server
o XHProf
o XDebug
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SOURCE CONTROL
BENEFITS
TRACKCHANGES
KEEPHISTORY
SECURECODE
MULTIPLEDEVELOPERS
OPTIONSo CVS: Grandfather of version control
o GIT: Fast-rising star, has taken open source community by storm
o SVN: Widest adaption - used by Google Code, SourceForge, Apache, Python and Ruby
o Mercurial
o Bazaar
o LibreSource
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WORKFLOW
TO EVOLVE AND ADAPT, REFACTOR
o What’s easy to change in the business model should be easy to change in your architecture
o Integrate open source solutions
o Accenture Survey of 300 large organizations found:
o 50% are fully committed to open source in their business
o 38% expect to migrate mission-critical applications to open source