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Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to the financial services industry, today announced availability of a comprehensive service offering which enables financial services firms to take a holistic view of their IT health. Capco delivers a four point enterprise-wide plan from diagnosis to cure to ensure healthy IT:

• Taking the pulse: Benchmarking the complexity of a firm’s IT
• Diagnosis: Analysing a firm’s IT portfolio for common complaints
• The best cure: Viewing holistically and enhancing core systems
• Preventative medicine: In-house vs. out-sourcing, considering the options

The Capco IT Health Check enables financial firms to benefit from a clear value strategy, improved client service, regulatory control, increased process efficiency and faster and cheaper development.

Using the IT Health Check, Capco supports clients in finding the most innovative and comprehensive tools to review their IT infrastructure and plan for an improved future, whilst identifying redundant, over complex and costly processes which can be trimmed.

“Too often IT is a restrictive burden in today’s banks and insurance firms, slowing or stopping business growing. However, IT can be flexible and scalable when a clear roadmap is set, delivering fast and agile business focused solutions with better controlled development and maintenance costs. We are looking at what causes unhealthy IT and how complexity can be reduced,” said Mark Record, Partner at Capco. “Using Capco’s four-point IT Health Check, organisations can identify and eliminate redundant, legacy, duplicated and overly complex infrastructures to ensure a much healthier IT future for their business.”

“Our mantra is for clients to take a holistic view of their IT landscape, not just the architecture and infrastructure but also their people,” added Mark. “Too often we are called in to help a client when their IT heath is critical and requires major surgery. Preventative medicine could have saved losses but firms don’t have the proprietary tools available to be able to continuously maintain or improve their IT landscape’s health. By using the Capco IT Health Check service we are partnering with clients as their trusted adviser to ensure they have a more efficient and effective future IT environment, enabling them to realise maximum savings and grow their business effectively and efficiently.”

About Capco
Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to the financial services industry. Our professionals combine innovative thinking with our unrivalled first-hand industry knowledge to offer our clients consulting expertise, complex technology and package integration, and managed services to move their organisations forward.

Through our collaborative and efficient approach, we provide our clients with tools to enable them to increase revenue, better manage risk and regulatory change, reduce costs and enhance control. We specialise in banking; capital markets; insurance; wealth and investment management; finance, risk & compliance; and technology. We serve our clients from offices in leading financial centres across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. To learn more, visit our web site at capco.com and subscribe to Capco's newsroom RSS feed.