From Desktop to Mobile: Modernizing Trade Order Entry for an Investment Management Firm

The Story So Far

A leading U.S.-based investment management firm relied on a desktop Trade Order Entry application built on Pega's traditional UI Toolkit. The system had no mobile access. When portfolio managers travelled, they depended on internal staff to submit orders on their behalf. This created delays and sometimes pushed trades to the next trading day. The firm wanted to modernize without losing existing case history or workflows.

What Got in the Way

Desktop-only trade order entry

Dependence on internal handoffs

Preserving existing case history

The EvonSys Approach

Mobile-Ready Trade Order Entry on Constellation

EvonSys migrated the existing Trade Order Entry application from Pega's UI Toolkit to Pega Constellation. The migration preserved current case structures while exposing a modern interface for both browser and mobile. The same underlying case types continue to serve portfolio managers and operations, with architecture designed for incremental enhancement.

How the Story Changed

Mobile trade submission

Direct order entry from any device

Faster submission cycles

Orders submitted within minutes of decisions

Less manual coordination

Workflows replace ad hoc email coordination

Solutions to grow your business

Achieve Unparalleled Time-To-Value

  • Rapidly deliver applications that the business needs.
  • Facilitate faster decision making among cross-functional teams working in tandem.

Reinvent Development

  • Stay Agile and respond quickly to evolving business and customer needs.

Build More at Scale

  • Design solutions that are easy to scale on cloud-native architecture.
  • Create a variety of solutions ranging from process automation apps to mission-critical systems modernization without incurring high costs.

Trade Order Entry Modernization | Pega Constellation Case Study

A leading U.S.-based investment management firm relied on a desktop Trade Order Entry application built on Pega's traditional UI Toolkit. The system had no mobile access. When portfolio managers travelled, they depended on internal staff to submit orders on their behalf. This created delays and sometimes pushed trades to the next trading day. The firm wanted to modernize without losing existing case history or workflows.

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

  • Case studies

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.