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Synechron Technology Technology Practice overview www.synechron.com Unlike other firms, Synechron’s excellence - to drive transformative Our Value “Power of 3” approach and solutions. We have the unique ability proposition financial services expertise gives to provide an end-to-end approach, About Synechron us a competitive edge to tackle our from business consulting through clients’ problems from any vantage technical development to digital A unique approach to market point with great depth. Synechron enhancement. This empowers us combines the “Power of 3” - business to deliver solutions to some of the differentiation in the financial Accelerating Digital for process knowledge, digital design toughest business challenges. services domain and core technology delivery Banks, Asset Managers, and Insurance companies. Synechron is a leading Digital Consulting firm and is working to Accelerate Digital initiatives for banks, asset managers, and insurance Technology Digital companies around the world. • Technology Consulting • Experience Design We achieve this by providing our clients with innovative solutions • Application Development • Deployment and DevOps that solve their most complex business challenges and combining • Automation • Emerging Technology Synechron’s unique, end-to-end Digital, Business Consulting, and • Enterprise Architecture & Cloud Frameworks Technology services. Based in New York, the company has 18 offices • Quality Assurance • Blockchain COE around the globe, with over 8,000 employees producing over $500M+ • Systems Integration • AI Automation COE in annual revenue. • Data & Analytics • InsurTech COE • IT and Database Support • RegTech COE • Microservices and API • AI Data Science COE Development • Wealth Tech COE 18 $500M+ Vertical • Business Process Management • Digital Ecosystems COE Global Privately Held Focused only on Locations and Self-funded Financial Services 8000+ 150+ Power of 3 Team Members Marquee Digital, Business Consulting Globally Clients and Technology services Business Consulting • Enterprise Strategy, Architecture and Transformation • Client Experience and Lifecycle Management • Data Science, Engineering and Governance • Regulatory Change and Compliance • Finance and Risk Transformation • Innovation Management • Program Management Services 1 Technology Capabilities www.synechron.com 2 The breakthrough technology solutions from Synechron’s FinLabs encompass the following: Blockchain Artificial Intelligence InsurTech RegTech Automation To know more about FinLabs, please scan the QR code Artificial Intelligence Wealth Tech Digital Ecosystems Data Science Amsterdam London Paris Novi sad Dubai Synechron’s Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) act as an New York innovation hub - allowing our clients to reap the benefits of Charlotte Hyderabad Fort Lauderdale Pune Synechron’s digital R&D investment and scale transformative ideas Bangalore with access to the brightest minds using cutting-edge technology. Synechron combines the “Power of 3” - business process Singapore knowledge, digital design and core technology delivery excellence - to drive transformative solutions. Here, clients can actually touch and feel the latest digital technologies and be energized and inspired to develop transformative solutions. Visitors can do everything from role- playing the customer journey through a typical digital engagement Present 300+ FinLabs 65+ 7 Accelerator 24 scenario in order to understand the impact of beacons, drones, locations Experts Globally Accelerators Programs Global Awards biometric authentication and virtual reality, to prototyping around new technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, InsurTech, RegTech and more. 3 Technology Capabilities www.synechron.com 4 Synechron’s Technology Services Technology Consulting Application Development Automation Data & Analytics IT and Database Support Microservices and API We have a strong team of financial We believe in developing applications We help deploy the latest evolutions Data is the lifeblood of any financial Synechron provides IT infrastructure Development services consultants who can tackle our that advance our clients’ digital strategies. in automation and provide end-to-end organization. Through proven best and database support for financial A Microservices-based architecture clients’ toughest technology problems. We work with clients to build highly- automation services, backed by our practices and by embracing the latest services firms. We work with clients introduces change that is often well- Our technical business analysts customized applications and to shift Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Our innovations in Artificial Intelligence on everything from application and received by those creating modern understand complex business needs and their development practices to Agile. Our automation practice is made up of four (AI), Blockchain, and user experience performance monitoring to release change applications seeking increased productivity create and implement practical Target Application Development services includes primary service offerings: Consulting, design, we enhance our clients’ ability to and management across a variety of and faster applications. We are working State Architectures. Architecture & Design, Development, Managed Services, Engineering Services effectively and efficiently store, process, technologies. with clients to achieve the benefits of a Performance Engineering, Maintenance and Sytorio where we focus on Cognitive analyze, and act on their immense data microservices architecture, which includes & Production Support, and Migration & Robotic Process Automation (CRPA). potential. We have proven expertise and increased deployability, reliability, Application decommissioning. experience in data warehousing, BI, data availability, scalability, modifiability, and lakes and large data computing tools. better DevOps alignment. We also are working with firms on their Omni-channel Application Programming Interface (API) strategies. Quality Assurance Enterprise Architecture & Systems Integration Business Process Management QA innovation must maintain pace to Cloud Synechron is one of the world’s leading Synechron offers technology and strategic keep down costs, avoid bottlenecking, and Systems Integrators for specialist services related to business process uphold the industry’s minuscule margin of We work with clients to enhance, technology solutions, with dedicated management including implementation, error. Through advanced methodologies restructure, migrate, and develop Centers of Excellence (COEs) for Murex, BPM as a service drawing on our cloud and innovative approaches such as architectures to support their Calypso, Finastra and Prima Solutions. Our expertise, validation and verification with Combinatorics and Synechron’s SYNE transformation and innovation initiatives. COEs are known for world-class delivery our Quality Assurance (QA) capability, Intelligent Process Automation testing tool, Our Cloud services include Software- and aggressive training programs for our and environment consolidation. We also we can perform QA faster, more efficiently as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and, consultants, for example, our Calypso work with firms on process architecture, and effectively. Internet-as-a-Service with large-scale Campus and Murex Academy. Our trained legacy modernization, business process enterprise strategy and migrations, experts have experience across front and competence centers and release developing and maintaining Cloud- middle, back-office, risk and accounting management. based infrastructure, and transitioning to applications across all asset classes. Serverless computing models. 5 Technology Capabilities www.synechron.com 6 Technology Application Consulting Development Synechron’s Technology Consultants We have experience in each of the business areas and building and As a digitally-driven company, Our Development Approach Agile & DevOps maintaining the business systems that run these operations daily across Our Application Development practice At its core, a digital enterprise is rooted are techno-functional business analysts Investment Banking, Retail Banking / Core Systems, Mortgage / Lending, Synechron believes in that bring our clients’ deep domain developing applications that has extensive experience developing in a DevOps methodology, promising Wealth Management, Asset Management, Corporate Banking, Cards and applications to deliver complex financial continuous integration and delivery, experience in Banking Financial Services Payments, Infrastructure and Insurance. advance our clients’ digital solutions within the restrictive scope enabled by portable components, and Insurance (BFSI). Our Technical We have run large-scale, global programs across front-, middle-, and strategies by contributing of regulations, compliance and risk standardized code, interoperable Consultants and Business Analysts have back-office systems and are uniquely capable of understanding the lean, future-proofed solutions management. This financial-fluency applications, and a steady stream of broader impact of a change initiative and incorporating the needs allows Synechron to tackle complicated updates to stay current. With each experience working across the majority of and concerns of each business unit touched, resulting in an efficient, that are compatible with problems with lean, versatile, and development initiative, Synechron works the world’s largest tier one global banks streamlined, and integrated solution. their technology
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