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Overcoming Complex Challenges

Complex financial services companies have complex systems challenges. While the notion of simply buying a new system has a lot of appeal – it is simply a notion. The reality is that modernizing large, complex systems requires much more than making a purchase.

While vendor software – whether it is designed for a specific vertical market or created to address broader, horizontal needs –may seem to address a good deal of your functional requirements, there is a large chasm to cross to get from the software you see in the sales demo to a fully functional, fully integrated, bullet-proof production system in your environment. And, as we all know, most large-scale projects don’t successfully traverse that chasm.

We started FAST because we knew there was a better way to help you solve these complex IT problems. Each company’s situation is different on many levels. Your company certainly has its own unique combination of products, distribution, existing systems, home office personnel, cost structures, profit pressures, etc. And your systems environment and challenges are unique.

When tackling enterprise-class systems challenges there is never one system or one solution. Instead, you must employ an integrated, multi-dimensional approach that addresses your specific situation. We can help you operate both strategically and pragmatically to develop an optimal solution incorporating a combination of:

• Buying new components
• Building new components
• Porting some existing components to a new technology
• Leveraging some components more or less "as is"

FAST Provides

• Strategic IT Consulting
  Our Strategic Consultants each have a long track record of working with the largest financial services and insurance companies in the world to define and create: target end-state environments, technology roadmaps, business cases, cost benefit analyses and implementation strategies
• Highly-skilled Implementation Resources
  The FAST team has deep experience implementing complex systems on-time and on-budget. Our team includes:
  • Technical architects
  • Project managers
  • Systems analysts
  • Business process consultants
  • Java and C# developers
  • Software testers
• 8x Framework
  Our robust development framework that dramatically reduces the effort to create new software

FAST Can Help You

• Smoothly migrate from legacy applications to a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) while delivering immediate benefits and rapid ROI
• Quickly build robust new software components that integrate easily with other systems
• Integrate diverse IT solutions into a systems environment that can rapidly respond to changing business needs

FAST Methodology

At the core of our approach is our methodology, a combination of software generation tools, business modeling techniques, and a development methodology that adopts many concepts from AGILE but provides greater measurability and predictability for deliveries. We also have a significant set of pre-built software components that readily work with your existing or new software assets. The FAST methodology will have the team up, running, and building out solutions faster than you can imagine.

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