Client Solutions, Successes & Examples of Services provided.

ICC has helped several clients implement new investment accounting systems. Each company had assets in excess of $50 Billion, and each project took from 6 to 18 months to complete.

We have helped three different clients with mergers, where the assets being acquired have been in excess of $20 Billion. In all of these cases, the project needed to be completed within 120 days after the final merger date. ICC played a critical role in meeting these deadlines, and providing a smooth implementation that reduced the risk for the client.

The ICC staff has substantial expertise in several different investment accounting systems, and the related business and technical issues associated with such implementations. We are able to do as little or as much as the client asks us to do and the final list of deliverables is very dependent on the individual client needs. Typical services performed are:

• Project planning and management
• Business process review and re-engineering.
• Systems flow planning and architecture review.
• Resource allocation and gap analysis.
• Data Conversion.
• Reconciliation.
• Report review and Data Mapping.
• Interface review and development.
• Data quality monitoring and fixes.
• Software testing.
• Production cutover planning and implementation.
• Parallel planning and execution.
• Project closure and lessons learned.

ICC uses its specific methodology for a conversion, and has software that helps in the effort as well. The IRDB® is a software package that ICC licenses to clients on an ongoing basis, but we use it during a conversion as part of the service we provide. This software serves as a "staging area" for the data between the source system and the target system. Data transformations are then more easily performed on this staging area (i.e. US DOLS transformed to USD, etc.). This same staging area is then very helpful during the reconciliation of the old system to the new system.

In short, ICC provides the following as a part of a conversion:

• Expertise
• Software tools
• Arms and Legs