FICS Strengthens its Commitment to its Online Mortgage Technology At MBA's 93rd Annual Convention & Expo.Enhancements provide greater level of customer support and security for FICS FICS Fellow of the International College of Surgeons. customers CHICAGO -- Financial Industry Computer Systems, Inc. (FICS), a mortgage technology specialist that provides in-house residential origination Origination The process through which a mortgage lender creates a mortgage secured by some amount of the mortgagor's real property. Notes: Also known as loan origination, everyone must go through the origination process when securing a mortgage for a piece of real and servicing technology and commercial servicing technology to the mortgage industry, announced at the Mortgage Bankers Mortgage Banker A company, individual or institution that originates, sells and services mortgage loans. Notes: Don't confuse a mortgage banker with a mortgage broker. Association's 93rd Annual Convention & Expo that it has strengthened its commitment to its online mortgage technology to meet the growing demands of the industry. FICS recognized the importance of providing the industry with a robust suite of online enterprise applications. In order to expand upon its level of online product offerings, FICS has significantly invested in upgrading its online technology infrastructure and services to provide a quicker response time, with increased security, thereby further strengthening its reliability and providing customers with an even more trusted environment for online lending. With the new technology in place, FICS is better able to support its customers' future growth in regard to origination and servicing activity. FICS has implemented all new equipment including web servers, redundant load balancers, firewalls and switches. The load-balanced servers handle increased traffic by directing users between the web servers. The highly available, redundant network is scalable, enabling additional web servers to be added in the future as volume continues to increase. All the new hardware will be managed and monitored by FICS' new web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. provider, VeriCenter. VeriCenter is a world class, SAS-70 Type II compliant, managed service provider. From physical security to disaster recovery, VeriCenter is geared toward the safe storage and transmission of sensitive data, giving FICS customers a raised level of security and dependability dependability - software reliability when providing online capability to their borrowers. "Consumers of today value an effective and uninterrupted means of online lending, both in applying for a loan and in monitoring the management of the loan after closing," said Dawn Gibbs, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of FICS. "FICS recognizes this importance and is allocating additional resources to meeting this goal. With an improved infrastructure, FICS will be able to meet the growing needs of its customers, while offering a secure, heightened level of usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. among end users." About FICS Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. , Financial Industry Computer Systems, Inc. (FICS) specializes in providing flexible, comprehensive residential and commercial technology solutions to the mortgage industry. FICS' solutions are designed around the latest in Windows-based technology, while incorporating innovative document management and Web-based capabilities into its full suite of products. Additional information about FICS is available via the company's Web site at www.loanware.com. |
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