We offer and deliver our services through four practice areas that address the major areas of interest and activity of our customers. These four practice areas are:

e-Business - ADS defines e-Business as the transformation of key business processes using Internet technologies. We believe that successful e-Business is all about operational efficiency, return on investment, and execution. We bring over twenty years of in-depth banking, project management, and systems integration experience to assist clients in realizing their e-Business potential. The banking and system integration experience enables us to identify innovative opportunities to achieve operational efficiency through e-Business; our project management expertise ensures execution within fiscal and scheduling constraints; the combination of efficiency and execution results in return on investment. Our services fall into three main categories: strategy, design, and implementation. Combining our technology and financial industry expertise, we work with our customers to create systems that build virtual bridges between buyers, suppliers, customers, and financial institutions for swift and reliable transactions.

CRM - We understand that a key success factor for financial services organizations is the acquisition, servicing and growth of profitable customer relationships. Our goal is to help our clients become more customer-focused so they can maintain and grow market share in the competitive financial services marketplace. Our approach is to assist our clients by delivering a practical plan for transforming the enterprise, which supports their customer-oriented business strategy. Then as each initiative is launched, our requirements documentation services can assist in the translation of business needs into formal requirements for the project team — assuring the solution delivers business results. As an independent services firm, our team of experts can also assist in the acquisition of best of breed tools and solutions. At ADS we also recognize that high-performance customer information is the foundation of any CRM program. Our customer information teams can provide everything from diagnostic services to complete systems integration to assure this valuable asset supports our customers CRM program. Our approach with every engagement is to focus on business objectives, and ROI, delivering value at every step.

IT Strategy and Consulting - Firms in every segment of financial services are facing unprecedented pressure to innovate and change. In the face of competition from new and traditional rivals, financial institutions must simultaneously develop or acquire new products and services, improve the level of personalized service provided to customers, and significantly improve operating efficiency. We provide the operational insight and major project discipline to complete these strategic initiatives successfully. We leverage our industry knowledge and technology expertise to help clients identify, design and implement business solutions that produce measurable improvements. Not only are new capabilities implemented, but operational performance efficiencies are also achieved resulting in a client’s improved bottom line.

Conversions and Consolidations - The financial services industry has undergone tremendous change, reorganization and growth. We have been a leading solution provider in hundreds of conversions, consolidations and migrations, deploying the financial services expertise necessary to contribute to our customers’ successes. As a core competency, we have provided the requisite project management skills to help our customers tackle the business and technological challenges before them, and in the end to exceed the goals of their original strategic objectives. The financial industry experience resident in our consulting staff enables us to provide our clients with both the business insight and operational expertise to guarantee successful business integrations.