The RIBS4 functional application reflects the WINTER PARTNERS overall approach on financial business applications based on a clear separation between the operational functions and the strategic analysis: The operational functions cover all tasks and implications throughout the system, before, during and after a transaction. Except control runs, these activities are event driven and real-time. From a business point of view these tasks are regrouped in following categories : The strategic analysis functions cover the analysis and management of the various portfolios, responsibility centers and the total balance sheet from a risk and profitability point of view statically and dynamically including all overall compliance aspects. These activities in essence can only be near time, as most of theme require a consistent cut in terms of all positions and all concerned markets data. If we map the RIBS4 modules within the defined overall business functions we get following illustrations: Above graph shows on one hand the straight through processing capabilities (vertical integration) from the front to the back office. On the other hand its shows the horizontal integration covering most types of traded FX, Money Market, Securities, Loan instruments and supported by 'horizontal functions' such as order transport or limit control. The graph shows also the modularity of the software allowing even using modules individually with the required common application services modules to fit them in other internal architectures.