Financial services organisations operate in an intensely competitive environment, where customers are arguably savvier than ever before. Now more than ever financial services organisations need to perform at the highest levels so that they can deliver sustainable value for their customers and their shareholders.

From building societies and banks, to insurance and investment companies, we work with financial services customers to help them operate more effectively and achieve higher performance through the use of technology. Our range of managed services and professional services can help you to deliver real business value.

Here’s just some of the reasons why financial services companies choose to work with us:

• Our financial services experience – we’ve been working with building societies, banks, insurance and investment companies for more than 25 years . We’ve developed an in-depth understanding of the business challenges you face and we have Financial Services specialists who can help deliver real value to your business through the use of technology.
• Our technical experience – we hold the highest levels of accreditation with the world’s leading hardware and software vendors including Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Netapp.
• Our integration skills - we can design and manage complex infrastructures that seamlessly combine and integrate technologies from different IT vendors. Our customers also value our in-depth partnerships with financial services software providers such as Tieto UK.
• Our flexible approach - we can provide a complete range of services from simple procurement through full solution design and delivery, to on-going support and management. Our flexible approach means that you can choose the level of service that suits you best and you can rapidly scale up or down the services provided to meet your business needs.

The core solutions we deliver for financial services organisations are focused on achieving the following:

Increasing competitiveness – we can work with you to rationalize, virtualise and consolidate your IT infrastructure to reduce your day to day running costs and increase your productivity to help you out-perform your competitors

Helping ensure compliancy – we can help you meet industry regulations with effective business continuity and disaster recovery, centralised applications and secure data management. Our financial services customers also value the fact that we’re IS027001 compliant.

Improving customer service - we’ll work alongside you to help you deliver excellent services to your customers by improving the performance of on-line services, ensuring 24x7 system availability and making sure your employees have access to the applications and data they need, where they need it.

Reducing time to market – flexibility and scaleability are critical elements in maintaining and building market share in a competitive market place. We can help ensure that your IT enables you to be agile and respond to changes quickly with rapid application, desktop and server deployments, and improved cross departmental access to critical business intelligence

Reducing carbon emissions - using our Green Computing audit tool we’ll help you to understand your existing carbon footprint. We can then work with you to reduce your energy emissions and create a sustainable IT infrastructure by consolidating and virtualising your server infrastructure, increasing storage utilisation rates, reducing your cooling requirements, and lowering desktop power requirements