Banking and Finance Businesses

How we work with banking and finance businesses

Worldwide, the banking and financial services industry is growing fast—8% compounding per annum, and it is not expected to slow any time soon. The industry thrives on information and seeks to offer its clients more and faster—keeping up with consumer demand and getting ahead of the competition. This is why technology has always been central to the industry’s strategy. With investment pouring in, the need for technology innovation is accelerating.

The challenge that emerges from this acceleration is not what to do or how to do it, but who will get it done?

Software development has become more complex, not less. And there is demand for not only skilled and experienced practitioners but also people with the right attitudes and behaviours—combinations that are difficult to find in the required number.

SECTION6 helps improve the productivity of your scarce and valuable IT resources by improving your development and IT operations pipeline.

This is important because customer experience is critical to your success. Competition is high, and the race to bring new services and features to the market to respond to new demand is relentless. At the same time, new threats are emerging from bad actors. And losses can eclipse gains and certainly the costs that can help and prevent attacks—both customer experience and security benefit from a platform that can respond quickly and deploy changes fast, with the power to react equally to new demands and threats.

Like we have done for other financial institutions that went from infrequent and often unsuccessful deployments to fast, reliable, and secure software development pipelines.

We do this while at the time ensuring their mission-critical software remained highly reliable, scalable, secure, and, through SECTION6, adaptable (at speed).

Expertise we bring

Our expertise is at the edge of transformation—where maturity meets innovation and delivers you the maximum value. To enable you to gain the transformative benefits of software, we invest in those capabilities that align with our mission and purpose to build mission-critical software for organisations essential in people’s lives—meeting complex requirements by building software to be as simple as possible.

Knowing that the technology universe is continually expanding, we have identified six key capabilities that encapsulate the latest in mature technology innovation that we know enable our clients in the industries we serve to meet their goals better, faster, and for longer into the future.

DevOps

DevOps enables business agility with improved reliability, economics, and security. DevOps is a practice that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) and shortens the systems development through continuous delivery with a focus on software quality and security. DevOps is complementary to Agile software development. Together, delivering more reliably and to a higher standard of quality. Importantly DevOps helps address the increasing complexity of Software requirements and delivery.

Cognitive Automation

While robotics automates work done by hand, cognitive automation focuses on work using our heads. Cognitive Automation simulates the human learning procedure to grasp knowledge from the dataset and extract the patterns on which it can make judgments that are often better and faster than humans. And because it can use many different data sources such as images, video, audio and text, its decision making is independent of the type and source of data. Cognitive automation unlocks and leverages all of your information together.

On-Demand Compute

On-demand reflects the ability to deploy computing resources based on business needs rather than being restricted by physical constraints. Optimise your computing to provide the best client experience by moving the compute resource closer with edge computing for added speed and resilience. Centralise what you need for security and control. Burst out into the cloud to satisfy peak demand. Edge, cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud—where you need and want it—on-demand.

Industrial IOT

Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) encompasses embedded sensors, software and other technologies to connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet. IIoT devices monitor and control the physical mission system through real-time automation, including cognitive automation. Use IIoT to combine information technology with operational technology and help unleash the benefits of digital technology in the physical and biological world.

Cyber Security

Cybersecurity includes information security and protects devices (IIoT) whose value is not just in any data and information but also in the physical tasks they may perform. We increase safety in the DevOps process by constantly adhering to and testing your security policies and requirements. And by injecting into the DevOps pipeline automated testing, static analysis, and the necessary security controls and checks along the DevOps lifecycle. Importantly we make our software easier and faster to adapt and deploy—so that you can respond more quickly when a new vulnerability is identified and patched.

Agile Integration

Agile integration combines otherwise disparate islands of data, devices (IIoT), and software functionality through integration and microservices inserted between software services, with minimal disruption. Agile integration builds on the principles and practices of agile software development by having an architecture that enables agility by decentralising both the executing platform and the developers that need to create the integrations. In keeping with agile principles, integration work is done by the people closest to the technologies that need to be integrated—people who are better placed to make decisions faster and complete work more efficiently.

OTHER MISSION-CRITICAL INDUSTRIES WE WORK WITH

Energy

Working with energy providers with the challenge of combining operational technology with information technology to build smart grids.

Telecommunications

Helping telecommunications providers and their business consumers to be faster and smarter to remain competitive.

Transportation & Logistics

Enabling integration horizontally along your supply chain and vertically into adjacent value chains. Adding value and doing more with less.

Security & Intelligence

Helping agencies with their missions to keep our people safe, communities feeling secure, and our country protected from external threats.

Government

Supporting and working with our important government agencies whose work is essential in the lives of our country—people and industries.