About Us Frequently Asked Questions

Who is 29West?

29West was founded in 2002 in response to the financial services industry’s growing need for a rapid electronic delivery and response infrastructure for use with real time financial data. Headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), with offices in New York, London and Tokyo, the team at 29West, Inc. has an extensive history of innovation in the financial industry.

What does 29West do?

At 29West, we provide the lowest latency, highest performance and most stable messaging infrastructure to the financial markets. We not only specialize in this domain, but are the pioneers in financial markets messaging. The combination of our ability to start with a clean sheet of paper, with the goal of providing the very highest performing messaging solutions to the financial markets, enabled 29West to create the ultimate messaging product suite: Ultra-Messaging®.

What are the products?

Latency Busters® Messaging (LBM) is our streaming messaging library that offers application developers a fast, lightweight, and highly tunable solution. LBM is particularly well-suited for applications with high message rates.

Ultra Messaging® for the Enterprise (UME) extends the proven API of LBM with Parallel Persistence® to provide additional features like durable subscriptions and delivery confirmation.

Ultra Messaging® Desktop Services (UMDS) extends 29West Messaging to diverse desktop networks throughout your enterprise, allowing your desktop applications to receive and send 29West topic-based messages.

Ultra Messaging® Cache (UMCache) provides mechanisms for archival, retrieval, replay and management of diverse message streams.

SNMP Agent (SNMP) gives your SNMP monitoring solution access to the standard 29West messaging statistics. It can be integrated with your SNMP console, or we can provide a fully integrated solution using the DartWare Intermapper® management station.

What’s the goal?

Our goal is to provide our customers with the highest throughput, lowest latency, most stable messaging products for the financial markets. Our vision has two focal points: solutions that not only strongly boost performance, but also tightly fit with our customers’ business and data delivery model.

What are some of the advantages of 29West as a partner?

  • Focused solely on the financial markets
  • Solutions for both streaming messaging and persistent messaging
  • Messaging performance leader
  • Financial markets messaging expertise
  • Global operations
  • Access to our system designers
  • Fair and value-based business model

What’s the next step?

Please continue to review our web site and contact us for further information (our system engineers are standing by) or take us up on our offer by participating in the 29West Free Software Evaluation and see the results yourself.