Corporate Finance and Insurance

Corporate Finance has been the cornerstone of CRA’s support platform since our inception in 1992. We are experienced in the technologies and service providers that are at the heart of provisioning services for corporate and retail banking, taxation, public sector finance and the insurance industry and have been able to adapt to this ever changing environment over the years.

Our Service focus includes:

• Compliance: Leveraging technologies in order to meet Federal, State, local and private regulatory, standards and audit organizations in a timely manner.
• Security and Availability: Ensuring that data and business critical systems are secure and available to those who need it while also making this data recoverable in the event of system down-time.
• Growth: Providing the appropriate services to accommodate business growth. As businesses grow, so does the need for adaptive technologies. With our experience in the industry, we can assist growing businesses with new capabilities – whether it be remote access support between branch offices, mobile device support, or virtualization services within the data center – we can help our clients leverage emerging technologies to meet their needs.

FINANCE AND INSURANCE INFRASTRUCTURE

For more than 15 years, CRA has partnered with business, technology and other entities within the Financial Services industry to support various types of infrastructures. Our Financial Services infrastructure solutions include:

Planning and Organization

Data Modeling is the process to develop a technology independent Information Blueprint for the Enterprise. We help you to build effective data models and support the evolution/transformation from such technologies as mainframes and client server applications to banking, insurance, investment and other Financial Service business-specific services. Our flexible enterprise modeling services and database administration services are fully integrated to address systems information management in an enterprise.

Disaster Management / Mitigation

We provide server, storage, backup and recovery solutions that enable a highly available and recoverable environment. Our focus is to keep systems up and running 24x7 to support essential real-time and business critical transactions.

Optimization

Our support and procurement services help you to best utilize existing technologies and introduce economical, powerful new options of system types that support your business growth.

Security

Our goal is to assist with the development of stable, impenetrable infrastructures and data platforms, which are protected from vulnerabilities such as downtime, information theft, and other man-made disasters as well as data incompatibilities across systems.

COMPLIANCE

There is a multitude of Governance issues regarding Regulatory Compliance and Standards Management within the Finance and Insurance Industries. CRA’s solutions have been developed in order to help your organization to be compliant with the laws that regulate your industry. We support your applications, business systems, software, service and maintenance needs and the development of controls for:

We utilize industry “best practices” along with an analysis of the particular business environment and goals of your firm to deliver comprehensive solutions. CRA helps you to develop data models and business infrastructure -- servers, storage and backup/recovery systems, network components and other key technologies in accordance with these regulations.

PROACTIVE SUPPORT

We have a proactive rather than reactive approach to the delivery of IT support and services. Our service program is designed with our clients’ needs in mind. We are able to pinpoint and adhere to your own service level requirements and fully adapt to your environment.

We collaborate with you to give you the services you need when you need them. Additionally, when we provide personnel to augment your internal IT teams, or to support technology needs where you request these specific services, we make sure that we do this with locally hired, trained and available consultants and technicians who are familiar with your environment.