Technology

Financial Technology

LightPoint provides our customers with a fully customized end-to-end trading and accounting system for the price of a packaged system. To achieve this, we have leveraged technology in the following ways:

We built a single tenant architecture to provide our customers with their own installation of our SaaS software, which provides the following benefits:
  • The system can be quickly and easily tailored to each customers needs
  • Increased data security and compliance, since customers do not share data
  • Custom performance tuning for each customer based on their needs.
  • Better fault isolation, leading to a more resilient application and greater uptime
  • Increased agility when delivering to our customers
We adopted a microservices architecture to deliver our SaaS applications functionality, which provides the following benefits:
  • Easier to build, maintain, and modify our SaaS software when it is split into a set of smaller pieces that can be assembled like Lego.
  • Allows our development teams to focus on delivering business functionality rather than write glue code, which enables us to respond quickly to our customers needs.
  • Improves overall productivity and speed by decomposing applications into manageable services that are faster to develop. Different teams work on different components independently and in parallel.
  • Speeds up quality assurance since each microservice can be tested individually, and components that have already been developed can be tested while the development team is working on subsequent tasks. This works especially well when development and testing teams are in different time zones.
  • Future proofs our application software since each microservice can be written using a different technology. This simplifies the selection of the most appropriate tech stack for the specific needs of a given customer. The microservice architecture allows decoupled services written in different programming languages to coexist with other microservices.
We use Microsoft’s Azure cloud software, which provides the following benefits
  • Allows us to cost effectively host a single tenant solution that is tailored to each customer’s needs.
  • Provides world-class security and compliance for our customers.
  • Our SaaS software can be delivered to customers located anywhere in the world securely and quickly.
  • The software can scale on demand and can start small and evolve with our customers as their needs change.
We architected our platform so that it integrates with other applications four different ways
  • At the GUI level so that our user interfaces can talk directly with other user interfaces.  We do this using Glue42 (insert URL for Able Noser video)
  • At the middle tier we leverage our microservices architecture
  • At the data layer we can use Restful data  APIs or file transfer, depending on customer requirements.