Buyer’s Guide: Buyside & Sellside Data Management Solutions 2024

For buyside firms and sellside institutions – specifically, asset managers, hedge funds, institutional investors and Tier I to Tier VI corporate and investment banks – there is a constant level of observed demand in 2024 for vendor-provided software capable of ameliorating the complexities associated with managing any or all the data that is either consumed or produced by the front-, middle- and back-ends of a capital markets trading franchise.

However, not all the products available in the marketplace are capable of simultaneously satisfying the functionality demands of either side of the bank or non-bank industries to an adequate level. This report presents the findings of a survey of four vendor-provided solutions used by asset managers and investment banks alike in 2024 by assessing the key purchasing criteria that GreySpark believes is applicable to best-of-breed data management platforms and software.

This report reviews the findings of a survey of all the eight KPCs mentioned above as they pertain to the following vendor-provided data management products: