Award-Winning Fathom Solutions Introduces Financial Services Offering; Fathom provides 'on the money' solutions to Chicago's TransUnion and LaSalle St. Securities.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2003 Fathom fath·om n. Abbr. fth. or fm. A unit of length equal to 6 feet (1.83 meters), used principally in the measurement and specification of marine depths. tr.v. Solutions, a leading Chicago-based business integrator and a recent winner of 2002 Integrator of the Year by TeleStrategies, today announced its expansion into the delivery of solutions across Banking, Insurance, and Capital Markets with the introduction of its Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Practice. As with Fathom's other service areas, the Financial Services Practice has been built to rival offers from traditional consulting firms by aggressively delivering true value with top tier service at a significantly lower overall cost. In addition to Fathom's core strategy planning, requirements & design, augmentation AUGMENTATION, old English law. The name of a court erected by Henry VIII., which was invested with the power of determining suits and controversies relating to monasteries and abbey lands. of leading packaged solutions, and system implementation services, its new Financial Services Practice offers industry-specific expertise to effectively serve the needs found across Banking, Insurance, and Capital Markets, such as: -- CRM/Wealth Management -- Business Process Improvement -- Supply Chain Integration -- Risk Management -- Enterprise Application Integration Furthermore, Fathom's deep knowledge allows it to drill down to industry niche development and applications, such as: -- Banking - Payments, Channel Integration and Loan Processing -- Capital Markets - STP STP or standard temperature and pressure, standard conditions for measurement of the properties of matter. The standard temperature is the freezing point of pure water, 0°C; or 273.15°K;. and Real-Time Content Management -- Insurance - Policy Processing, Claims Administration, Agent Automation Lastly, Fathom can provide clients with a variety of optimal solutions through developed strategic alliances with companies that provide superior products and services for the financial industry. As a testament to the success of Fathom Solution's approach and Financial Services capabilities and expertise, TransUnion, a global information solutions company and leading provider of business intelligence services, selected Fathom Solutions to implement a new workflow solution that allows TransUnion's real estate services subsidiary, TransUnion Settlement Solutions, Inc., to maintain rapid growth and introduce new products while employing customer-specific business processes to result in better management of residential loan services delivery. TransUnion Settlement Solutions, Inc. is a premier provider of information-based products and process management solutions to the residential lending industry. TransUnion's real estate services' customers will experience solid cost savings, as loans can be closed in less time due to automated product selection and ordering based upon customer-specific business rules. The workflow solution uses Savvion BusinessManager, a BPM suite See BPM. that visually designs and manages business processes while leveraging custom business rules implemented in a J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. framework on IBM's WebSphere 5.0. "Fathom was the only consulting firm that clearly understood our business problem and proposed a comprehensive solution," states Rick Carlberg, TransUnion Settlement Solutions Inc.'s chief technology officer. "Fathom's consultants are responsible for a broad range of business and technology tasks. We are confident we can put them in any role and they will meet or exceed our expectations." Additionally, Fathom is helping TransUnion transition from legacy to J2EE development. "Fathom has created quality deliverables, such as workflow diagrams, application use cases, and integration use cases that are now becoming part of our standard application development methodology," Carlberg added. LaSalle St. Securities, a 26-year old privately-held broker/dealer, chose Fathom Solutions to build a custom Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) application to support its brokers. The CRM solution, custom built on a J2EE platform with a service-oriented architecture See SOA. to allow for maximum flexibility, allows LaSalle St. Securities' brokers to increase productivity by centralizing cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. customer information, generating targeted campaigns, tracking daily activities, and reporting broker performance. "Fathom was able to provide LaSalle with a realistic approach to a technology solution," states Dan Schlesser, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of LaSalle St. Securities. "Fathom's consultants truly understood our business drivers and provided us with an application that meets our current needs, yet is flexible enough to change as our business changes," he continued. Fathom's team worked closely with LaSalle's business stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. and technical architects to design a solution and implement LaSalle's proprietary CRM concepts. "LaSalle has taken a unique approach to CRM. Each broker employed by LaSalle is now empowered with a tool that can help them be successful in an extremely tough market," says Schlesser. Fathom is able to consistently deliver 100% client satisfaction through a thoroughly modern service approach that takes clients' concerns, time and resources seriously. "During this technology downturn Fathom has continued to grow and achieve success because we offer high value and guarantee rapid ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). through streamlined methodologies, appropriately sized teams, incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. deliverables and more," said Jeffrey Lee Jeffrey Lee (born 1971) is the sole member of the Djok clan and the senior custodian of the Koongarra uranium deposit. The land owned by the clan is surrounded by Kakadu National Park. , chief executive officer of Fathom Solutions. "Our management team and staff work very hard to ensure we make good on Fathom's customer promise of equaling and exceeding the service, expertise and overall quality of larger consulting firms while delivering the agility and lower costs of a smaller service provider," he added. About Fathom Solutions Fathom Solutions is an award-winning next generation business integration consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a singularly focused on serving technology-progressive industries where organizations are seeking to leverage new or existing technologies to obtain competitive advantage. Fathom specializes in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , business process design, augmentation of leading packaged solutions and system integration. Fathom has extensive expertise in selecting, implementing, and integrating CRM, billing, provisioning, order management, enterprise application integration and network management software. Fathom's unique approach to integration provides a refreshing change compared to traditional consulting firms: more appropriately sized teams, attractive rates, entrepreneurial spirit, and a streamlined approach - all contributing to 100% client satisfaction. Fathom is a privately-held with its headquarters in Chicago, IL. For more information, please visit us on the Internet at www.fathomsolutions.com, e-mail us at info@fathomsolutions.com or call 1-866-TO-FATHOM. |
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