Services

Business Process Improvement and Redesign

• Attain insight into business process improvement (BPI) options and the reduction of operational risks by reducing the number of manual tasks and introducing applications that enable straight-through processing (STP).
• Assess potential gaps to enable the introduction of new information technology assets into the business processes (e.g., assess the impact of introducing a new trading platform).
• Design and document the desired future business process state.
• Plan transitions to the future business process state while ensuring that strategic business objectives and regulatory compliance are achieved on a timely basis.

Solution Architecture

• Provide project stakeholders with a holistic view of business requirements and their relationship to the proposed solution composition and technology components. Enable stakeholders to evaluate the solution and the possible alternatives, and agree on the final course of action
• Identify critical aspects of a project to ensure they are addressed early in the development cycle.
• Document in a consistent way the proposed architecture and decisions that need to be made together with the related inherent risks, opportunities and cost impacts.
• Reduce operations risk and ongoing operations cost by enforcing use of the corporate standards and best practices.
• Reduce overall technology development costs and improve the solution quality by enforcing the reuse of technology and the creation of components that can be reused in the future.

IT Operations Excellence

• Enable the stakeholders to gain insight into linkages among business services applications and information technology infrastructure in order to:
• Better understand operational risks and how the infrastructure outages could impact the business and its ability to provide services to its customers.
• Prepare and execute data center and platform migration while minimizing the related business interruptions.
• Reduce operational costs by using third-party infrastructure service providers and assess application readiness for a migration to a cloud environment.

BASEL BCBS Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting

To meet the requirements of the BCBS Principles, financial institutions need to review and, where necessary, enhance a number of business and technology areas:

• Enhance infrastructure for reporting key information
• Enhance management of information across legal entities and at global consolidated level
• Improve speed and quality of information available and thereby the decision-making process
• Reduce the probability and severity of losses from risk management weaknesses

Most of these changes have broad impact across the enterprise and carry a significant price tag. Our framework and tools help our clients to baseline the current state and to plan and track changes in processes, applications and data assets. This systematic approach also reduces the total cost by utilizing the cross-purpose analysis and by eliminating the duplication of efforts.