Features Aligned to Specific Needs

Each edition of Mo.net Model Development Studio includes features specifically designed to meet the neets of different development or operational communities.

Developer Productivity

The Model Development Studio includes a variety of features that are specifically designed to increase the productivity of model development and testing community. Development Studio also helps new developers quickly become competent and confident in the art of model design & implementation.

• Models are developed using VB.net, which will be familiar to anyone who has used VBA with Excel or other Microsoft Office components
• The Mo.net paradigm allows models to be developed in the abstract without the need to bind code to specific data & assumptions; this vastly increases the opportunity for model / code reuse
• Third party libraries & components can easily be integrated into user-developed models, making the development of even the most complex models significantly more efficient
• Model code can be implemented once and re-used across a variety of different applications
• Code editor providing code templates and auto-completion

Collaboration & Control

To ensure that models are developed and changed in a fully controlled environment, the Model Development Studio integrates with industry standard source code control providers. This allows models to be developed in a collaborative / team-based environment with parallel branches of code being isolated from one another before being brought together ready for testing. The integration also allows models to be subject to continuous integration and testing, which can significantly increase development / testing agility.

Debugging

The Model Development Studio provides best-in-class debugging functionality out-of-the-box without need to use to third party tools. During the development phase, models can easily be reviewed within the development environment with inputs, parameters, code and output (results) all visible at once on the same screen. Furthermore, changes to inputs, parameters and code can all be made in the results window with output (results) changing in real time

For very complex models the Model Development Studio includes features such as the Results Tree and Decomposition View to help developers / testers understand the structure and flow of data through a model. Together these features make the process of testing & debugging even the most complex models very straightforward.

Reporting

Although the Mo.net platform offers integration with third party business intelligence, reporting and analysis solutions, more modest implementations can benefit from comprehensive internal reporting capability and rich integration with Microsoft Excel. This allows results to be transferred easily into Excel for downstream analysis, or Excel can be used to consume a Mo.net model directly in an operational environment.

Operational Support

While larger implementations will benefit from adopting the Modelling Service Hub, the operational requirements of smaller installations can be perfectly met by the Model Development Studio with associated Master / Worker workload distribution services. Furthermore, operational users can use a run-time only version of the development studio to perform runs without the risk of potentially changing model code.

Diagram Tool

The Mo.net Diagram Tool provides a graphical overview of dependencies between project objects and between variables within a model, enabling you to visualise the elements and structure of even the most complex financial models.

Documentation Service

Actuarial models have traditionally been developed by actuaries for actuaries, without regard for the processes and governance that are commonplace in the IT industry. This often leaves complex models with little or no associated documentation, either in terms of requirements, specifications or implementation references. This in turn can make models difficult to support or change, and often increases reliance on key personnel who are familiar with how models were intended to work: usually the original developers. With the regulatory agenda continuing to demand increasing evidence of good quality, appropriate and up-to-date model documentation, there is a clear need to help customers develop a body of documentation for their critical business models. The Mo.net Documentation Service can be used by model developers, testers, auditors and users to create a baseline set of technical documentation from an existing modelling project or to compare differences between two versions of a project. The document set will have a structure that is consistent with the model itself, and will be populated with useful attributes from the modelling project, allowing retrospective requirements to be added later.

Worker Service Manager

The Worker Service Manager is used to manage distributed modelling clusters from a central console. Users can configure how parallel projections are run on one or more nodes (worker PCs); define the machines on which the projection will run; specify how many workers are created on each node and what debug information is produced.

More Information

For more information regarding Mo.net Model Development Studio or to request a demonstration / trial, please get in touch.