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[ S U R V E Y | E X E C U T I O N M A N A G E M E N T S Y S T E M S ] EMS 2017 EMS 2018 EMS 2019 Figure 1: Overall Scores Aspect of service Weighted Average Score 5.92 5.91 Reliability and Availability 5.62 5.62 Latency Client Service Personnel 5.53 5.53 Ease-of-Use 5.54 5.53 5.19 Handling of New Versions/Releases 5.29 5.93 5.84 5.69 5.60 5.62 Breadth of Broker Algorithms 5.42 5.50 Timeliness of Updates for Broker Changes 5.85 5.96 5.73 5.78 FIX Capabilities 5.45 Breadth of Asset Class Coverage 4.98 5.15 5.35 5.40 5.24 by respondents this year showed improvement on last year’s results, although a few of these were only marginal and can be considered 4.50 4.75 5.00 5.65 5.85 5.67 5.48 Overall Cost of Operation 4.25 6.12 5.39 Ease of Integration to Internal Systems 4.00 5.86 5.52 5.62 5.54 Breadth of Direct Connections to Venues Product Development 6.18 5.25 inconsequential — breadth of asset class coverage and ease of use scored just 0.1 and 0.13 higher than last year respectively — but 5.61 5.50 5.75 6.00 6.25 6.50 elsewhere there were signs of more tangible improvements. Three categories recorded year-on-year score improvements Issue 61 // TheTradeNews.com // 81