FORFIRM is a FINTECH consulting company with clients in European market answering real business challenges for our clients through innovation and deep industry knowledge.
In 2018 "European Innovation Management Academy", based on "House of Innovation" framework by A.T. Kearney " analyzed over 3000 digital companies around Europe scoring FORFIRM at the TOP in terms of Innovation strategy, Organization and culture of innovation, life cycle and Enabler factor.
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FORFIRM - THE FUTURE, DELIVERED!
1. THE FUTURE, DELIVERED!
FORFIRMis answering real business
challenges for our clients through
innovation and deep industry
knowledge.
2. MAINFRAME
MIGRATION
BLOCKCHAIN
PROJECTS
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European Innovation Management Academy, based on "House of Innovation" framework by
A.T. Kearney has analyzed over 3000 digital companies around Europe scoring FORFIRM
at the TOP in terms of Innovation strategy, Organization and culture of innovation, life
cycle and Enabler factor.
FINTECH
LABORATORY
FINTECHBUILDER
PSD2 DELIVERY
21
INNOVATIONPROJECT
DELIVERED
SECURITY
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES
Strategy of innovation
Organization
and cultural
innovation
Enabler factor
Process of circle
life innovation
FORFIRM Sample Growth Average societies
Result of
innovation area
ITALYSWISS GERMANY
In 3 countries: In 3 industries:
BANKSPHARMA TELCO
TEST
AUTOMATION
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
3. What’s the real value of AI for financial industry
and how can you capitalize on it?
FORFIRM laboratory is starting to realize artificial
intelligence concepts based on WATSON and is looking
for partners to deliver learning machine projects in these
areas:
Robot advice Robot
customer care
Robotic process
automation
• Personalized financial planning;
• Fraud detection and anti money
laundering;
• Process automation – not just
back office functions, but
customer facing operations as
well.
Three areas with the biggest AI
potential:
4. How can legacy transformation help financial services firms
to offer the best services at the lowest costs?
Business
case for
legacy
renewal
Initiate Assess Plan Realize
Application inventory
Define offload
strategies
Prioritization
Overall Roadmap
Critical Path
Contain Applications
Target Programs
Decom Programs
Legacy Programs
Benefit TrackingRefine Business Case
Review and Re-iterate
Assessment, planning and realization is
reiterated during roadmap execution
1 2 3 4
5
FORFIRM supports mainframe migrations into distributed
environments thanks to a consolidated approach:
Here is the key question
for executives: which is
the most effective way to
offer the best service at
the lowest cost? In order
to stay competitive,
companies have to
decommission legacy
systems and integrate
new infrastructures.
5. Is Blockchain a real disruptive technology in financial market?
Three areas with the biggest
BLOCKCHAIN potential:
Cross border operation
between banks
RegTech Area
Internal Process
Adoption
FORFIRMhasdesigned a BPMsoftware based on Hyperledger
and CORDA whichisable to transform your blockchain driven
processes in the shortest time.
Analysis of the
necessary services
and resources in
order to produce
the preliminary
Business Case;
Feasibility study Conceptstudy
Functional analysis
Prototype realization
Definitive
business case
Compliance with legislation
Development
Technical analysis
Blockchain
Development
A.P.I. integration
Deploy
Peer infrastructure
Security
Project Management
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5
6. Which are the benefits of Account Number Portability?
FORFIRM, adopting IBAN Portability Project framework,
can integrate banks in cluster and realize porting
of current accounts internally to a single bank
institution without changes to core banking system.
IBAN PORTABILITY used in a
consortium or a single bank
institution facilitates the
implementation of:
Merge and
Acquisitions
Virtual
Current
Account
Moving the
old bank
to the new
bank
IBAN Portability
Layer
BANKS BANK
CLIENT
PAYMENT
SYSTEM
7. How is the cloud shaping the IT organization?
FORFIRM can support realizing hybrid cloud in which the critical systems resident in
house communicate with the rest of applications installed on cloud.
- Define the project objective
- Define Success Criteria
- Infrastructure assesment
- Budget requirement
- 1-5 years strategy
- Infrastructure Design
- Infrastructure Review
- Infrastructure revisions
- Final Infrastructure review
- Build Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Spec
Review
- Finalize support
processes
- Infrastructure Sign-Off
- Network
- Security and compliance
- Compute
- Storage
- Final App Migration Plan
- Final Data Migration Plan
- Test Migration
- Migration
- Post Migration transition
- 24/7/365 support
- Proactive monitoring &
response
- Annual Plan
- Quarterly Review
- Ad Hoc
Requirements
Discovery
Planning
Development
Validation
Migration
Management
Scale
Cloud computing promises
lower upfront costs, greater
business agility, and a reduced
burden on internal IT
management. Therefore, large
enterprises are now adding
hybrid cloud-based solutions to
their existing IT services. But
before CIOs can fully leverage
the benefits of cloud
technologies, they need to
understand the organizational
impacts of this move.
8. Do you optimize your IT spending?
FORFIRM delivers an efficient Software Asset management to rationalize your
software license and increase the ROI since the first day of implementation.
Over licensing
Cost reduction
With SAMWithout SAM
Unused installation
Used installation Unused installation
Under licensing
Software install
base
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TIME
C
C
T
Companies need to adopt an
appropriate Software Asset
Management program and
develop their organizaton,
processes and infrastructure. The
successful implementation of
SAM gives you greater enterprise
control, decreases costs and
ensures compliance with
software licenses, thereby
preparing your company for
software audit.
9. How to decommission an «old»IT area?
Desktop
Infrastructure
ITas aService
DB 2
service
Mainframe
service
FORFIRM has always focused on IT areas, thanks to experts and
suitable resources to deliver the best service in the shortest time.
PROJECTMANAGEMENT
Companies need to
change their technology
paradigms. Many assets
considered as strategic
today will become
obsolete tomorrow. CIOs
need to manage this
change as well as risk of
dissipation. Each and
every effort in managing
old and new technologies
could affect future
businesses.
Business case
Processes and Scope
Deal Structuring
Vendor Management
People
Operating model
Technology and Tools
Change Management
Location Management
Tax
Transition and transformation planning
Regulation and Data Privacy
Security Control
10. Are you embracing FINTECH to grow and evolve?
Insurance
Data and
Analytics
Transaction and
Capital Market
Blockchain and
Digital CurrenciesPayments
Lending RegTech and
Cyber Security
Wealth
FORFIRMhas tested the software of the most prominent FINTECH start-up with a
specific focus on integration, security and IPand is ready to support you in the
selection and project delivery.
Banks are realizing that the pace
of technological change and new
customer expectations demand
FINTECH advanced capabilities;
while this new industry needs the
constant support of established
banks on a customer basis.
11. When should you adopt a FINTECH solution?
FORFIRM provides a virtual
FINTECH company, delivering
successful solutions thanks to
a fast product delivery
methodology.
6Months
Software Development (BETA):
(2 months)
Software Development (ALPHA):
(1 month)
Finalization (CANDIDATE):(3 months) Last
development phase that terminate in the
candidate version, ready to be offered in
the market
A FINTECH solution offers
more favorable profits in
quantitative and qualitative
terms, involving lower costs
and risks, but higher
performances.
12. How can banks create value from the rise of PSD2?
FORFIRM boosts your online and mobile banking using its experience
with PSD2 API, Artificial Intelligence and Data integrations.
In order to offer tailored
services to customers, banks
need to transform "google like",
while offering an open
“banking-as-a-service” platform.
13. Is your business protected?
FORFIRM experts trust your WEBand SAPsystems adopting
a consolidated methodology and technologies.
Asses
Analyse
Strategize
Align
Secure
Develop Deploy
Control
Detect
ENVISION ENGINEER OPERATE RESPOND
Manage
Prevent
Maintain
Repair
Stabilize
Investigate
Recover
1. Have your users access to the
information they need when
they need it?
2. Are you facing Security
challenges in an efficient and
optimal manner?
3. Are you compliant with EBA
SECURITY POLICY related to
PSD2, BASEL III and cyber
security?
14. Why do financial institutions need automated testing?
FORFIRM boosts your online and mobile banking using its experience
with a consolidated approach to test automation.
Automation is widely used for
performance testing, while most
functional tests are performed
manually. But financial
institutions can reap significant
benefits by automating
functional tests as well. A
number of factors are driving the
need for financial institutions to
implement automated functional
testing or increase the level of
testing performed.
LOAD &
PERFORMANCE
TEST- Pressure to
improve the
customer experience
TESTSCRIPT in
SELENIUM,APPIUM
and SIKULI- Risk
aversion to post-
production defects.
SECURITY &
COMPLIANCE TEST
Evolving regulatory
requirements.
15. Do you lack in ITresources?
FORFIRM certified experts will join your ITteam as consultants or
trainers to help you with:
• PM
• PMO
• Scrum Master
Security
• SAP GRC
• Ethical Hackers
• IT Auditors
Project Governance Data management
• Data Architect
• DB2 Expert
• ORACLEExpert
• Business Object
Applications
Development
• Solution Architect
• Functional Analyst
• Technical Analyst
• JAVAEEdevelopers
• Front End developers
• Hyperledger Fabric developers
• Corda R3developers
System
Administrator
• Linux
• ZOS
Cloud
• AWS Architect
• AZURE Architect
• AWS developer
• AZURE developer
Artificial Intelligence
• IBM Watson expert