Solutions for Financial Services

Today's global markets challenge financial services organizations to attract new customers, expand product portfolios and react swiftly to the competition. And you need to do all this while managing compliance initiatives like ITIL to meet regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Basel II Accords and IFRS. Meeting these demands requires a  sophisticated, dynamic IT environment.

Financial services organizations face key challenges, such as: 

• Maintaining regulatory compliance while reacting to changing business needs
• Implementing an increasing number of enhancements to in-house systems in ever-shorter delivery cycles - without impairing quality and integrity
• Accelerating the development of software and Web-based systems so that projects with proven ROI are leveraged more quickly
• Managing the complexity of widely distributed and interconnected services applications

Enterprise Architecture - align business processes and IT systems to objectives and regulations

An Enterprise Architecture is an integrated definition and model of your business processes, systems and technologies. It helps you align business processes and IT systems to objectives and regulations, increasing corporate agility, ensuring regulatory compliance and keeping you competitive in a highly dynamic business environment.

Model Driven Development (MDD) – simplify service application complexity through visualization and simulation

Adopting Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the related migration to interconnected and distributed financial services applications has necessitated a model-based development approach. Financial services architects and designers use modeling to apply an architecture-focused methodology to their IT system requirements, handing off tested, stable designs to development teams for implementation in Java, C++, and C#; with full support for service specifications like WSDL and XSD.

Project Portfolio Management – maximize the business value of IT by focusing on the right projects at the right time

Project Portfolio Management aligns your projects with market demands and business priorities. Effective prioritization of your candidate projects is essential to keeping your project portfolio aligned with your business objectives. Management overviews are necessary to maximize the value of the portfolio, to ensure the right balance between different types of projects, to best leverage existing resources, and to align the project decisions with the overall strategy.

Requirements Management and Change Management of business objectives

Enterprise-wide Requirements Management and Change Management provides a platform for capturing, linking and managing business objectives, IT system requirements and internal controls, as well as a facility for authorizing ongoing changes. This enables you to align your IT systems and operational procedures with your business processes and objectives.

Resources for Financial Services

Enterprise Architecture with Telelogic® System Architect® >>

Requirements Management with Telelogic® DOORS® >>

Model Driven Development with Telelogic® Tau® >>

Change Management with Telelogic® Synergy™ >>

Project Portfolio Management with Telelogic® Focal Point™ >>