RPM is Registered Product Manager, a
back-office system for
Canadian mutual fund dealerships, produced by
Footprint software. It's got a text based back-end interface, in a lovely
ANSI blue and
yellow, and a
windows-esque front-end system written in
FoxPro for dopey
mutual fund reps who can't figure out text and need windows, called
PowerRep. Basically it maintains a database of
clients, their securities holdings, and their
mutual fund transaction histories. It interfaces with
FundServ to allow you to place new transactions by
wire, co-ordinates updating of
parallel databases in branch offices, and fetches prices and transaction
contracts and confirmations, generally via
modem, and has various maintenance and reporting options. And like, it's got a
dorky
monochrome ansi logo in the opening
screen that would have been pr3tty 'l33t in 1992, with their
slogan, which is "Creating New Realities". I'm not quite sure how a glorified
database creates a new
reality, but hey, I bet if I worked all day
coding financial software, I'd get a little
delusional too.
RPM is the
second banana (but higher
quality, in my opinion) back office system in Canada; the other contender is
WinFund.