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Break Down Data Barriers with SFS Consulting
Over the past year, Scientific Financial Systems has provided Consulting Services to a number of clients. Our experienced team of Quantitative Finance and Technology professionals are helping people like you in three critical areas: Data Integration or Migration...
Supercharge Your Python Applications with Quotient
Over the last 15 years, we’ve all seen Python mature into the language of choice for most quant developers and data scientists, thanks to its simplicity, versatility, and list of powerful third-party libraries. To that list, SFS is adding its brand-new Python library,...
SFS’ Quble: The Next-Gen Python Library Simplifying Financial Time-Series Computations at Scale
Scientific Financial Systems’ flagship product Quotient™ provides an advanced analytical engine that simplifies data manipulation, factor building, backtesting, portfolio construction, and much more. Under the covers, SFS’s Quble technology powers Quotient’s financial...
Quotient now integrates Sigma Computing
We all know that making better informed, data-driven decisions is critical for investment finance success. This is proven by the ever-growing demand for more sophisticated, easy-to-use tools to handle, visualize, and analyze vast amounts of data. In response to this,...
Snowflake and Kipi Webinar Video
Recently, Scientific Financial Systems’ founder Peter Millington participated in a timely one hour webinar on leveraging the power of Snowflake’s Snowpark for Python, with an emphasis on applications in Financial Analytics. Sharing the stage with Pete for this event...
Snowflake Summit 2023: New Features for Financial Analytics
As a proud partner of Snowflake, we at Scientific Financial Systems (SFS) were pleased to attend the 2023 Snowflake Summit from June 26- 29 in Las Vegas. At Summit, we joined other data professionals, investment management practitioners, and technology enthusiasts to...
Maximizing Coding Efficiency with AI: A Week in Review
Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly playing a pivotal role. Over the past week, we've leveraged AI to enhance the coding process, providing invaluable assistance in tackling complex...
Unlocking the Power of Snowpark for Python: Accelerating Financial Analytics
On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at 12:00 PM ET, Scientific Financial Systems founder Pete Millington will be co-hosting a one-hour Webinar on the benefits of leveraging Snowflake’s Snowpark for Python to empower Financial Analysts, with SFS development partners...
Machine Learning in Quant Investing – 01: Overview
So much has been written lately about the integration of Quantitative Investing and Machine Learning. Are you wondering about whether to apply ML to your investment process or feel like your team isn’t progressing fast enough? We hope that our new blog series on...
Innovative Insights: CQA Spring Conference 2023 Takeaways
Takeaways from the CQA Spring Conference 2023 by Peter Millington, Founder and CTO of Scientific Financial Systems (SFS) Peter Millington, founder, and CTO of SFS, recently attended the 2023 CQA Spring Conference in Las Vegas. This annual event brings together top...
ChatGPT’s SQL Translation: Pros, Cons & Room for Improvement
At Scientific Financial Systems, we have mapped a lot of vendor data into Quotient – mostly from MS SQL Server databases. With the ever-growing popularity of Snowflake, vendors are releasing versions of their data products on this highly scalable, performant, and...
SFS Proudly Joins CFA Society of Boston’s Annual Market Dinner
Scientific Financial Systems was proud to attend the CFA Society of Boston’s Annual Market Dinner event in Boston last night. It was a great turnout from the Boston investment community. Morgan Housel delivered an excellent keynote talk about market risk and investor...
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