ACT Group Plc’s ACT Financial Systems Ltd is working with Teknekron Software Systems Inc, an affiliate of Teknekron Corp, on a systems integration project for dealing rooms: ACT’s Citydesk personal computer software for information distribution and management runs under MS-DOS and OS/2, and is similar to Teknekron’s Marketsheet product, which runs on Unix workstations; therefore, like Marketsheet, Citydesk can be integrated easily into Teknekron’s back-end Information Bus system; this means that organisations can choose a mixed configuration of workstations and personal computers, using software products from both companies; communication takes place via application programming interfaces currently under development for availability in the next few months; contract values range between ?250,000 and ?3m, with an average of about ?1m, and the system will take between three and six months to install; two potential customers have expressed an interest already.
