Progression Of Cash Management

Cash Management and Liquidity services advance with technology. Gone are the days of basic accounts, payables and receivables services. Smart Cash Management technology has been able to span all regions, virtualise operational structures, automate reconciliation, reduce bank fees and, for some, provide new customer revenues.

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Application Management Information Pack

• Is it really important inside our organisation?
• If we were penalised for it (ie, it would cost us a deal) would we still keep it?

I must admit, we didn't think this up ourselves. These ideas come from a Harvard Business Review article - Building Your Company's Vision by James Collins and Jerry Porras. Well worth a read.

We reviewed our initial list and agreed the following would best represent our values and allow us to drive the culture of the company;

Respect for others, their abilities and ideas

It is all too easy these days to become insular, ignore others, place unrealistic demands on unskilled people, ignore good ideas because you don't want to change. This core value was designed to show that we believe everyone has their value and needs to be respected.

Open and proactive

A simple core value that means we do not believe in covering up, being deceptive or telling half-truths. We take a very open approach to all our interactions and have a desire to be proactive at all times on all issues.

Continuous Improvement

A fairly standard value but quite often ignored due to ongoing business pressures. We insist on reviewing all our projects, services and deals to ensure we learn from them and continue to improve everything we do.

Take responsibility and move forward

Blame is easy but worthless. Some people deny responsibility, become dishonest and even quit. Taking responsibility and admitting mistakes allows everyone to move forward, resolve issues and feed back into the Continuous Improvement process.

Our core values will drive our culture. We are reviewed against these values and look for feedback from our customers on our performance against these values. We continue to develop our working culture based on these values and look for examples of our values in action.

But what exactly is a design pattern and where do they come from? In 1977 an architect (a "real" architect - the buildings kind) called Christopher Alexander wrote a book called A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction which describes a bunch of recurring elements, or "patterns" in traditional architecture.

Then in 1994 a group of software engineers, the "Gang of Four", adapted his central idea of recurring patterns and applied it to software engineering. They wrote a book (Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software) which describes 23 classic software patterns.

The great and powerful thing about design patterns is that they give us a shared language to discuss some fairly abstract ideas and solutions to common problems. Unfortunately, the term "design pattern" is now used to describe just about every aspect of software development. Google "design patterns" and you'll see what I mean.

As professional developers, it's our responsibility to manage the complexity of the applications we create. Design patterns can be a useful tool to accomplish this goal, but they can also be a source of complexity for its own sake. The trick is knowing which situation is which.

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CashFac - Straight Through Cash Processing. PDF (690 KB)
Australian Deposit Market Overview - July 2010. PDF (661 KB)

• Maintain and support legacy applications
• Reduce IT resourcing requirements - access a large technical team without having the headcount
• Reduce risk and consequence of application failure
• Simplify IT budgeting with a monthly fixed fee for Application maintenance and support
• Use our expertise to assist your IT Strategy and Plan development to match your business needs for core applications
• Solve a problem with a poor performing supplier

You can benefit from our experience in taking on the responsiblity for applications which are causing you to loose sleep!

Your business needs are addressed through discussions and analysis during a transition phase where we also learn your application. Then for a fixed monthly fee you will be provided with technical services to deliver maintenance and support requirements which can be re-prioritised as your business needs change.

To find out more about our Application Management Service you can download an information pack or contact us directly.

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An important aspect of software development is to understand the needs of the customer. In order to be able to understand the needs of customers we have worked hard on understanding their businesses. This has allowed us to provide customers with sound advice (consulting) around technology.

The types of things we do for customers include:

• Assisting in the evaluation process for a buy or build decision.
• Mapping business processes and providing recommendations on improvements
• Developing business cases for technology projects
• Providing advice on technology strategies
• Developing roadmaps for future needs
• Investigating competitive advantage opportunities

Our focus is to provide a structured and transparent process with sufficient documentation to provide to executive management, steering committee and project management office. Our approach is to ensure each recipient is aware of what they will be receiving, when, how often and in what format (presentation, document, workshop etc).

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From integrations, to migrations, to ground up builds of websites and forms applications, we have been involved all types of solutions and while we are happy to build from the ground up we're not slaves to the approach. In many instances when talking to customers about solutions we may come to the realisation that a custom (bespoke) solution is not the way to proceed. Our approach, in this instance, is to recommend the correct approach.

Our focus is on ensuring we follow a structured, well known, transparent, project methodology for all projects. We include all the appropriate software development lifecycle phases and are pragmatic and practical. This way we can guarantee the successful delivery of any project we are involved in.

With trends in technology seemingly around mobile application development and software as a service we have begun working more to deliver business quality solutions that are available to mobile devices and software that can be used by large numbers of users in many locations. Our belief is that technology will continue to improve in this area and our aim is be at the forefront of delivering solutions in this space.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner a lot of the work we do is in this technology stack but given the background of the organisation and the people, we have worked on a number of other technologies including Java, Delphi, Oracle, and some open source technologies.

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Simbient was engaged by Lumley from a very early stage to assist in defining the scope and gathering requirements. Simbient's background in consulting, technology and project management along with intimate knowledge of the scope and requirements meant it was ideally placed to complete the installation, configuration, build, test and implementation for the project.

The solution was to implement a CRM which would enable the business to:

• Better manage customer relationships
• Proactively market to the customer database
• Provide a platform which could interface with other core systems
• Increase staff productivity

The benefit of implementing a CRM solution was to:

• Enable the business to better manage relationships
• Increase the productivity of staff

The solution incorporated the following technological componements:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft CRM 4.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2005
• Microsoft ASP.Net 2.0