Case Study: Axioma achieves scalable, cloud-based enterprise risk analytics with Microsoft Azure

Axioma delivers FinTech’s first born-in-the-cloud, multi-asset-class enterprise risk solution

Axioma, a provider of financial risk-management solutions, faced the challenge of entering a high-barrier market that traditionally required massive upfront infrastructure investment to meet the demanding, compute-intensive needs of large capital markets firms. The company needed a secure, reliable, and hyper-scale platform to deliver its multi-asset-class enterprise risk management solution without the constraints of on-premises data centers. Partnering with Microsoft and leveraging the Microsoft Azure cloud, Axioma built a born-in-the-cloud platform to overcome these obstacles.

The Microsoft Azure solution provided Axioma with on-demand, elastic computing power, allowing it to auto-scale to thousands of cores for peak processing and guarantee timely delivery of risk analyses. This enabled Axioma to disrupt the market, reduce infrastructure dependency, and accelerate its development cycle. For customers like HedgeMark, the results included the ability to process reports substantially earlier and compute more analytics on a broader array of assets, handling over 35,000 securities nightly. Microsoft's cloud platform allowed Axioma to focus on its analytics and intellectual property, establishing it as a major competitor in the risk analytics marketplace.

Axioma

Fabien Couderc

Head of Enterprise Development