Why the cloud adds up for financial service providers
Like many financial services firms, you may be finding that the current data explosion, combined with a lack of scalability in your IT environments and contention for computing resources are starting to actively constrain your businesses. The cloud offers the flexibility you need, but in the highly-regulated world of finance, information availability, security, risk mitigation and compliance are paramount considerations.
Reduced risk, improved control
SunGard’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides the assurances you need to confidently embrace the strategic and operational benefits of the cloud. Our decades of focused expertise in managing large-scale IT production environments for financial companies enables us to support our customers’ compliance by equalling and often exceeding organisations’ internal risk controls. As well as a full audit trail, you’ll have complete transparency as to the location of your information assets in one of our SAS 70 Type II data centres, and our enterprise-grade SLA is testament to our performance in availability, security and resilience.
Maximum flexibility
You don’t have to simply hand over all your core applications for banking, insurance and payment processing to us from day one. You might want to start with the straightforward, low-risk migration of horizontal shared services like productivity tools before progressing to back-office support applications such as claims management and credit scoring.
Got legacy hardware or systems that aren’t suited to the cloud? No problem – we can accommodate those in a complementary physical environment and deliver them back to you seamlessly.
Without massive storage and processing capacity, complex analyses and simulations can take weeks or months, but with almost unlimited infrastructure available on demand from SunGard, you can get answers to critical business questions in more realistic timescales. Or you could exploit our infrastructure to tap into new, cloud-only opportunities such as mobile apps to support more engaging customer interactions and improve your reach.
