IDS offer the full range of services required to build and maintain a functional business intelligence infrastructure. With our wealth of experience in the financial industry, we are able to provide business consulting and often act as the subject matter expert in many areas of your business.
We also provide teams to assist with the development of bespoke operational IT systems including solution architects, project managers, business analysts and squads of agile development teams who can be reliably depended on to implement the solution.
We define the architectural description of a specific solution from the enterprise architecture viewpoints (business, information and technical), and then take full responsibility to ensure the solution is delivered on time and within your budget.
By providing a challenging environment, nurturing and rewarding our consultants, we can retain and continuously increase our in-depth knowledge of both the financial industry and in-house IT expertise.
At IDS, we don’t believe in dependency-based client relationships. So, while we work closely with you to ensure that you have the best solution and on-going support for your business, we also provide extensive training to ensure your in-house staff can use and maintain the systems on a day-to-day basis.
To support your strategic business model, you need the appropriate systems. We are able to assess and modify existing systems to bring them into alignment with your business model. We are also able to develop new systems to support changes to your business model. This systems capacity is primarily due to the wide range of skills that our consultants have developed over many years of consulting to some of South Africa's leading financial companies.
Our Solution Architects establish the complete business context for the solution and define the vision and requirements of the solution. This can include high-level business and/or IT system specifications, and a portfolio of implementation tasks.
To ensure your projects are delivered on time within budget and scope requires either an experienced program or project manager, depending on the size of the IT project.
Our program and project managers will take overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project.
Our managers understand the importance of compiling a realistic project plan and then managing the risks to product delivery and quality while engaging, enabling and inspiring all stakeholders. They are skilled at getting the best out of the people and projects that they oversee and thrive when planning projects and working with project teams.
No matter how leading-edge the technologies you employ are, if the business logic is wrong or poorly defined, your business intelligence or new operational IT systems will be a costly failure. We are able to work with you to analyse your business needs. Together we can develop solid business models which will dictate the systems and technologies required to provide you with your business intelligence or state of the art operational system.
Our business analysts are trained in the agile methodology and understand the user comes first and so create users stories collaboratively starting with epics which are then broken down into several stories and refined until they are clear, feasible, and testable with defined acceptance criteria.
Our programmers are trained in the agile methodology and have a broad base of programming skills that able us to assist with the development of new solutions and building interfaces to the most common of legacy systems.
We have experts in technologies such as: SQL Server RDBMS, Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Master Data Services for SQL Server, Visual Studio Online, Microsoft .Net Framework, Active Server Pages, .Net framework Model-Viewer- Controller & Webforms, Ext. Net, Simple Object Access Protocol - Web Services, Representational State Transfer Protocol - Web Services, Windows Services, GOJS, Kendo UI, Angular JS, ASP.Net SignalR, Oracle RDBMS, GitHub, TeamCity, SonarQube and IBM’s Websphere Datapower & Document Management System.
Warehousing is not only about technology, it is a methodology for creating knowledge. We utilise the IDS data warehousing methodology supported by leading edge technologies such as Oracle, Microsoft, and SAS, as well as consultants who have an excellent understanding of the nature of data, information, and knowledge. To create independence, we provide extensive training for both your warehouse users and administrators. Our training stresses that users and administrators should take collective ownership and responsibility for the warehouse and its data.
Business intelligence systems require complex infrastructure which is often beyond the capacity of your in-house IT staff. We provide the necessary skills to support your staff while they are building the necessary in-house capacity. There are times when it is either not cost effective or insufficient staff are available to perform the tasks in-house, the function can then be outsourced to our company.
Having spent over 25 years in the financial industry, the company has gained an immense wealth of knowledge of the business operating systems necessary to successfully run a bank.
We have in-depth knowledge of components of Customer and Account Profitability such as:
Interest Income, Matched Funds Transfer Pricing, Non-interest income, Activity based costing, Capital Allocation costing, OCM Costing, Liquidity costing and Asset & Liability Management. We understand the end to end credit process from application scoring to credit modelling to behavior scoring to impairments and risk reporting including the Basel international regulatory framework for banks.
We have developed applications in sales such as determining sales targets, banker performance measurement, product pricing, cross selling, retention, campaign management and account planning tools.
We have written a host of MI reporting systems such as transactional analysis and reporting, segmentation, DI900 reporting, KYC & AML reporting, Savings & Investments dashboards.
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