Connected Technology Financial Markets

Connected Technology provides a variety of technical services including networking, hardware, software and service solutions that help enhance an improve security, privacy and efficiency for:

• Accountants and accounting firms
• Financial advisors
• Investment firms
• Asset management organizations

Services for Financial Organizations
The following services provided by Connected Technology can enhance the professional services you provide to your clients:

• Enterprise Network Consulting
• Wireless Networking
• System Integration
• Network Security and Privacy
• IP Telephony Design  
• Deployment and maintenance of computer systems and peripherals
• Storage Disaster Recovery
• Internet filtering and storage
• Document Imaging
• Archival Security Solutions
• Web-based time tracking software
• Server virtualization

Enterprise IT Solutions for Financial Services: Keeping pace with the business

For financial services organizations, time is literally money. Applications need to be consistently available, with performance that doesn’t waiver. Downtime and poor response time can mean lost revenue and lost customers. Security is paramount. In many cases, absolute confidentiality is legally required to comply with government and industry regulations, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. At the same time, the mix of applications that must be delivered to service customers and employees grows continually more complex.

Connected Technology can help IT teams and their executives meet these challenges to enable financial services organizations to deliver new and existing services faster, improve customer service, control risk, and reduce costs with a high availability (HA) or disaster recovery solution.

Unified Financial Communication: A Communications Solution for Banking that Improves the Customer Experience

Cisco Unified Financial Communication Solution equips you with tools to improve real-time customer service capabilities, develop knowledgeable staff, assure speedy product development, and deliver product and service information to employees and customers.
The Unified Financial Communication Solution combines the following features to form the business communications foundation for your bank:

• Presence management
• Audio conferencing
• IP telephony
• Instant messaging with e-mail
• Voicemail
• Calendar scheduling
• Digital media system

Unified Financial Communication Solution offers retail banks many benefits, including:

• Simplified unified communications
• User-controlled productivity
• Business services delivered securely and ubiquitously
• Improved efficiency and productivity
• Creates a collaborative customer experience environment

Document Management: Going Paperless
EZdocs® is a document management system that is ideal for accountants and other financial services professionals looking to reduce enormous collections of client files. EZdocs assists users in securely digitizing, archiving and retrieving paper documents using bar code technology and web technologies.