Sectors
A broad range of external forces are reshaping the financial services industry, including international competition, domestic market changes, demographics, technology, regulatory actions and court decisions. In addition, strict governance in the form of the Financial Services Authority and the UK and European Union parliaments often means the complexities of the financial services sector are not fully understood. At SDLC Solutions this is not the case.
For many years, SDLC Solutions has worked in partnership with clients to develop expert solutions to enhance and deliver software testing programmes of unrivalled quality. Our knowledge of the sector’s key issues and the legislative framework, combined with our systematic yet commercial approach, has helped many financial institutions retain a competitive advantage.
The sector is constantly facing a number of business challenges: from managing relationships with retail customers, to meeting the needs of small and medium-sized businesses and the requirements of the largest corporate clients. The technology challenges are just as great; whether it is branch renewal, integrating back office systems, either with existing or new ones, addressing CRM, or extending the value change to handle new approaches such as imaging.
The current climate of negative growth and high uncertainty has put banking revenues and margins under greater pressure. Consumers are more demanding and more financially sophisticated and products continue to have shorter life cycles. Financial institutions are therefore facing an imperative to develop innovative products that address the needs of their customers along with the means to deliver and service those offerings. For these institutions reliable and high-performance software systems with a high level of system integrity and security, underpinned by robust and proven system processes are business-critical.
Our clients value our independent perspective, helping them to better understand the complex environment in which they operate and the ever-changing requirements imposed by regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, IAS39 and BS7799. Our business drivers when working with our clients are to:
• Ensure business integrity and security.
• Maintain regulatory compliance and corporate governance.
• Enhance customer service delivery and increase customer loyalty.
• Drive down cost by increasing business efficiencies.
• Maintain availability of business-critical systems.
• Manage and minimise risk.
• Deliver future-proof solutions.
• Provide exceptional value and ultimately help improve bottom-line results.
We believe that our ability to react quickly to client demands, to interpret and prioritise requirements and to deliver solutions on time and to budget are what makes SDLC a valued provider for many financial institutions.
Our extensive portfolio of testing services enables our clients to access specialist skills and resources to support their unique requirements on business projects. We bring added value to each project in which we are involved, helping our clients to re-engineer business processes, enhance their legacy systems and deliver an integrated business solution.
