Our solutions

We pride ourselves with the ability to find innovative solutions for difficult problems and implement these solutions successfully. We believe that sustainable operations and systems take time and experience to develop. Excellent IT systems and processes produce excellent business solutions. FINWorks offers a range of products and services in the financial industry to develop and implement processes and technology.

FINWorks have the following divisions:

Products and components

With our vast experience in IT and the financial industry we are expanding our own software components and solutions.

Group Investment System: The system is a web based application that manages investments done on behalf of individuals (employees) by an employer (the group). The investments are submitted to the product provider's line of business system.
Financial Calculator: This is a web based calculator that calculates interest over different periods using different interest rate intervals.
Advisor Administration System: Online client and investment administration system for IFA's.

Maintenance and development

We have a team of developers that maintain and enhance existing IT systems. We manage user expectations and requirements; project management form part of our proposition.
With specialised methods and techniques we can create and build an effective team of people in a short space of time.

Consulting

We offer specialised consulting services in project management, technology architecture, integrations, migrations, technology management, system evaluation and business process re-engineering.
We furthermore offer a service to assist, develop and train the client's internal resources to use the techniques and methodologies that we implement.

Internet and data services

This involves web development and hosting, email, internet and infrastructure maintenance and support. It includes monitoring, database administration, hardware acquisition and setup. It also involves software acquisition, setup and support.

Accounting services

We provide accounting support services, bookkeeping, reconciliation and bank integration.

Training

We offer beginners and advanced courses in developing systems with Smalltalk. For more information on our training courses visit our TRAINING page

Technology

We currently use mostly Smalltalk with Gemstone/S as the object database. We have found that this technology lends itself towards speed of development and speed of change.

Technology drives

Excellent client centric service with 1st contact resolution and focus on the client.
Systems should compliment processes and people.
Information on transactions and outstanding requirements should be available and accessible.
Operations should handle market fluctuations and volumes.
Change in product and processes should be easy and fast when market changes.
Simplicity. Products and processes should be easy to understand and sell, do the simplest thing that could work.
System and Data should be:

Current
Correct
Accessible
Consistent
Reliable
Instant / real time
Fast

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