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title: "Success Story: Proprietary Trading Firm Proactively Improves Execution Quality"
description: "Corvil's continuous insight into venue, system and execution performance drives optimization decisions."
type: "case-studies"
date: "2018-09-21"
source: https://www.pico.net/resources/proprietary-trading-firm/
markdown_url: https://www.pico.net/resources/proprietary-trading-firm.md
---

# Proprietary Trading Firm Proactively Improves Execution Quality
## Challenge

### Delayed and Fragmented Visibility Limited Trading Execution Improvements

- Gaining rapid, precision visibility across complex, distributed systems to prioritize optimization efforts and support efficient infrastructure operation

- Inadequate insight into venue, system and execution performance degradation

- Opportunity costs of dedicating significant resources to develop visibility, analytics and collaboration capabilities required for proactive oversight

## Solution

### Continuous, Real-Time Insight to Drive Proactive Optimization Decisions

- Measurement and correlation of the performance impact of each system, infrastructure component, and connected venue on end-to-end transaction performance

- Insight into performance impact of software/algorithm updates

- Proactive oversight of [execution performance across various venues](https://www.pico.net/products/corvil-analytics/) to optimize trade routing decisions

- Analytics-driven workflows for rapid problem identification, isolation, and resolution across the [trade plant](https://www.pico.net/products/corvil-analytics/)

## Results

### Improved Delivery and Execution Performance

↑ Return on optimization investment

↑ Revenue resulting from system optimization

↑ Support staff productivity

↓ Business impact of technology issues

↓ Development opportunity costs

↓ Mean time to identify and resolve issues