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 Banking and Financial Technology

Banking and Finance Technology


Improve Efficiency, Information Sharing, and Security

Enable your Digital Transformation with advanced technology, valuable services, and expert guidance that fits your retail environment.

As a member of the fast-moving financial services industry, you manage through an uncertain economy, increasing regulation, mergers, acquisitions and increasing data—all within a highly competitive environment.

Our services are designed to help organizations:

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Risk Management and Compliance

Due in part to the unprecedented impacts of a natural disaster, cybercrime, and terrorist threats to our economic infrastructure, today’s financial institutions are under increasing regulatory pressure to ensure the security and recoverability of data and mission-critical systems. Institutions are also experiencing greater scrutiny in demonstrating effective business continuity plans.

Security and resilience are only part of the regulatory equation as the financial crisis has pushed lawmakers to focus heavily on data analysis, archiving, and retrieval capabilities to support exposure reporting, eDiscovery, and fraud detection. To maintain compliance with these regulations, financial institutions need to effectively acquire, store, analyze, archive, and retrieve far more data than in the past—all while keeping it secure and available, including:

Mobility and Online Services

Harnessing the power of notebooks, tablets, and smartphones has become a major priority for organizations eager to gain increased productivity and performance. Still, giving your users the ability to work anywhere presents a challenge when it comes to creating a secure, manageable environment. Not only does your IT staff need to worry about the physical security of portables, but they also need to defend against data loss over public, unsecured wireless networks.

Added to the internal risks, customers expect to make transactions anytime, anywhere using multiple channels, including branch, online, phone, ATMs, and mobile devices. Today’s successful financial institutions must deliver these products and services in an always open and always secure environment to attract and retain an increasingly sophisticated consumer, including:
  • Mobile Device Management
  • Online Channel Availability, and Security
  • Mobile Banking Optimization
Mobility and Online Services
Customer Centric Banking

Customer Centric Banking

Online banking, location data, social media, and smart devices are adding new data to already massive and growing data volumes. Big Data solutions help financial institutions mine this data for new opportunities, uncover risk, and hone their competitive edge.

Acquiring, managing, and optimizing this data is one of the most difficult tasks for financial institutions. Using this newly acquired insight to communicate effectively with the customer requires embracing new technologies for channel enhancement both inside and away from the branch, including:

Operational Efficiency

Today’s financial institutions must operate in a highly volatile economic climate, while dealing with more regulations, thinner margins, increasing business change, more tech-savvy customers, and a highly competitive market. These challenges demand flexible and efficient IT operations that address key business metrics focused on driving efficiency, reducing costs, and improving quality and availability of services. Data center optimization strategies help to consolidate and simplify IT operations, so that financial institutions can better compete in the marketplace, including:
Operational Efficiency

Banking and Finance Technology Services

Risk and Compliance Solutions

Risk and Compliance Solutions

  • Design and implement compliant DR infrastructure and BC processes.
  • Meet data retention compliance requirements and audit reporting.
  • Streamline backup and recovery operations.
  • Protect against data loss and network intrusion.
  • Automate data archiving and document management for eDiscovery.
  • Reduce the impact of downtime due to planned and unplanned outages.
Mobile and Online Solutions

Mobile and Online Solutions

  • Assess your business and network to help you make intelligent, informed decisions about your mobility strategy.
  • Conduct a Wireless Site Survey to design an efficient wireless infrastructure.
  • Assess your environment for availability and security of online and mobile services.
  • Evaluate and configure hardware, software, and technical support solutions.
  • Incorporate mobile technologies for an “always open” environment.
Customer Centric Solutions

Customer Centric Solutions

  • Assess, Design, and Implement all aspects of your Branch Transformation efforts.
  • Identify opportunities to better manage and utilize data across your business units.
  • Drive consistency of experience across channels through effective data management.
  • Improve cross-sell and up-sell with greater customer insight.
Operational Efficiency Solutions

Operational Efficiency Solutions

  • Virtualize and manage fewer systems, while off-loading more intensive operations to control expenses.
  • Choose a converged solution, from remote and branch offices to the corporate data center, that's optimized for high-performance workloads.
  • Enhance IT service efficiency through automation and orchestration.
  • Simplify management of IT assets from the branch to the data center.
  • Reduce cost of storing and managing vast quantities of data.
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