Since 2006, HMS has been providing ongoing support to various regulated departments in the area of regulatory reporting in the IT department of a large German banking association. As a strategic partner with SAS experts, methodological know-how and bank-specific expertise, we offer comprehensive support.

Initial situation

The evolved IT landscape faces challenges in terms of maintainability, performance and the constant need to adapt to regulatory requirements.

HMS solution

Over the last 20 years, HMS has built up a deep understanding of the processes and systems. We advise the departments on changing operational and strategic IT requirements, starting with a comprehensive requirements analysis and implementing modern solutions in SAS in a coordinated, methodical and technical manner. We also support the customer with necessary technology and tool changes and drive forward the refactoring process of the software landscape that has grown over many years.

We provide ongoing support and consultation, including large mainframe-to-Linux migrations, report development and day-to-day support for timely resolution of production issues.

• Requirements analysis: Intensive analysis of the requirements in communication with the banking experts.
• Performance optimization: Optimisation of computing time-intensive program parts, e.g. collateral optimization and cluster formation.
• Development: Creation and expansion of the database, including pre-aggregated data sets, from which reports are created and interfaces are filled.
• Support: Prompt support and troubleshooting.

Benefits

• Further development and qualitative improvement of the existing code base
• Improved software and data quality
• Operational support
• Troubleshooting incl. assumption of occasional on-call times
• Improvements in methodological expertise and automated testing

Technologies

• SAS BASE and SAS Macro incl. SAS Enterprise Guide
• Linux
• Job control via mainframe TSO