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App engines facilitate your core business and drive your differentiators
App engines like 3forge are extendable software products with a built-in workbench and industry specific feature-set for quickly planning, building, and operating business applications.
From e-commerce and government to manufacturing and video games, App Engines have become the logical option to fast-track the delivery of high-performance applications at optimal quality and minimal cost.
Primary goal:
Efficiency
Maximize Quality
Minimize Cost of Ownership
Minimize Delivery Time
Maximize Flexibility
Maximize Performance
3forge drastically reduces development time, minimizes maintenance costs, and provides unfailing uptime, scalability, and performance.
Why 3forge
The Application Engine specifically built for financial workflows
Most enterprise development languages like Java, .NET, C++, or Python were designed as general-purpose tools. They are powerful, but they are not purpose-built for financial workflows. As a result, engineering teams spend significant time adapting generic constructs to model markets, risk, time, and entitlements. Financial institutions benefit from a development approach designed specifically around financial data, event-driven logic, and regulatory constraints.
3forge provides an application engine purpose-built for financial institutions, where the core primitives reflect how finance actually operates. Time-series and reference data, real-time event processing, entitlements, auditability, and deterministic behavior are native, not bolted on. Developers work within a tightly integrated environment that spans data access, business logic, and visualization, allowing them to express financial workflows directly rather than assembling them from generic frameworks. The result is faster delivery, fewer architectural workarounds, and production systems that are easier to reason about, govern, and evolve.
Built on first principles, 3forge delivers
4 pillars of financial application development
Live workbench
Evaluate and test business logic, track usage of data and GUIs, and explore the datasets underpinning visualizations directly in the application.
Live User Interfaces
Build and edit the UI directly in the app with drag-and-drop elements, dividers, tabs, multi-monitor windows, user preferences built-in, and reports to emails, Excel, and PDF.
Live scripting
Combining Java, Python, SQL, and string templates, the 3forge scripting language lets you build and debug reusable business logic from the data model to the shell tool, and embed directly into visuals.
Live Data
A single access point that intersects live and resting datasets from feeds, warehouses, and legacy infrastructures, protected by entitlements, and augmented with complex event processing logic.
Discover the benefits of an application engine in finance with a tailored demo from 3forge engineers
Proven in the toughest environments
Over 500 use cases powered by 3forge
While virtually any enterprise software requirement can be built with 3forge, the foundational users of the platform have been financial institutions driven by the need for hyperscale data management and real-time applications
Trading
- Multi-asset Class Order Entry
- Match Rate Monitor
- Transaction Cost Analysis
Regulatory Reporting
- Regulatory Adherence Monitoring
- Change Audit Trail
- Portfolio Monitoring
Middle & Back Office
- Real-time Reconciliations
- Integrated Trade & Settlement Processing
Risk Management
Portfolio Performance Monitoring
- Portfolio performance Monitoring
- Intraday portfolio factor attribution
It/Devops
- Process & workflow management
- Connectivity ticket tracking
- Traffic volume reporting
- FIX session management
- Tech stack monitoring
3forge excels at quickly delivering supportive apps that free up engineers’ time for strategic projects. Is it time to shorten your backlog?
Project approaches
How Apps get built with the 3forge App Engine
1,000+ 3forge platform developers rely on a growing global community
Managed Project
Clear deliverables with regular checkpoints give you full oversight.
Accelerated timeline
Clear deliverables with regular checkpoints give you full oversight.
End-to-end delivery
3forge delivers a complete solution fully configured to your infrastructure, look & feel, and entitlement requirements.
3forge Forward Deployed Engineers
Work onsite as an integrated part of your team.
Shared ownership
Blend in house expertise with 3forge specialists to maximize velocity without losing institutional knowledge.
Continuous skill transfer
Your developers benefit from hands on coaching and best practice guidance while building production systems.
Easy for quants to learn
All documentation is publicly available here
Advance at your own pace
More than 25 hours of tutorials available. Certification program available in partnership with Mallon Associates.
We’re here when you need us
Access 24-hour support from our dedicated engineering team.
How 3forge approaches AI
A principled foundation
for transparent, compliant AI
Typical AI integrations move data into external sandboxes that weaken governance and duplicate sensitive information.
3forge reverses the pattern by bringing AI to the data.
The 3forge MCP layer lets agents query and act within the same entitlement and audit framework used for human users. The result is fast AI adoption with full security, control, and accountability.
Comparing approaches
App Engines are the Clear Choice
Financial institutions can leverage several approaches for their software development needs, but Application Engines deliver the best balance of flexibility, cost, and quality:
vs Buy
When
Not a differentiator and needs are not unique within the industry.
What
A pre-built product controlled by a vendor based on common needs.
Problems
Customization is a burden
Roadmap driven by vendor
Evaluation must be extensive
Poor integration
vs Low-code
When
Needs align with the others but requires some customization.
What
Pre-built components with configurable touch points.
Problems
Poor Integration
Limited business Logic
Not Performant
Hard to Maintain
App Engine
When
Facilitates your core business and drives your differentiator
What
Workbench for quickly creating industry specific applications.
Solutions
Fully Customizable client owns IP
Rapid Delivery
Low Risk
Industry proven expertly optimized
vs Build
When
Is your core business and is your differentiator
What
Start from scratch and design everything including business logic
Problems
Long Lead time
Expensive to build and Maintain
High Delivery Risk
Technology Debt
A growing ecosystem
Building the new standard in enterprise application development
Passionate about helping engineers write lasting and effective code, the global 3forge team accompanies your projects from proof of concept to final delivery, and you benefit from insights on sound architecture, and our continuous investment in high-performance technology.
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