Overview of Data Stratification

Data Aggregation and Stratification enables you to summarize large volumes of financial instruments to a manageable scale for processing purposes.  The engine that does the aggregation and stratification processing is the Data Stratification Rule.  This application enables you to perform mathematically intensive calculations on a relatively small number of instrument pools that are proxies for a much larger number of individual instrument records.  Using this feature is a multi-step process, which includes:

·        Understanding what you want and how you want to aggregate and stratify data

·        Optionally defining balance or rate tiers to be used for grouping data

·        Configuring the Data Map metadata for the source and target data maps that are to be used on the Stratification Definition page

·           Setting up stratification definitions and rules in the Stratification Rule pages

·        Testing the rules that you create

This section covers following topics:

·        Aggregation Action

·        Stratification Action

·        Stratification tips