Catalyst Resources
Modular & Reusable User Interface Design
for Software as a Service and Rich Internet Applications
What users experience with your software will impact your bottom line
Whether your business is commercial or retail banking, insurance, human resources, brokerage, or credit card processing, the key to making software applications pay off is to ensure that they are easy-to-use and efficient for everyone including employees, customers and partners. The user's experience with the software determines the bottom-line impact of the application.
Extensive experience with application design of enterprise projects for financial services
Catalyst Resources has extensive experience with application design for financial services. We understand the complexities and dependencies of financial environments and have dealt with the kind of high-volume, mission-critical applications, where time, up-to-the-minute information, and ease-of use are all critical. This means that we minimize project ramp-up time and can deliver application and UI design quickly for our clients.
Unambiguous visual blueprints enable you to develop projects more reliably
Catalyst's unique combination of financial services experience with our rapid application design methodology allows our project teams to deliver user-validated application design and UI in 100-120 days. Our buildable "visual blueprint" includes a detailed functional definition for the application and often a full clickable model using dynamic data, of exactly what that software will be like when it is released. Your projects benefit from more reliable cost, timing and outcomes since there is no confusion on what to build or user acceptance.
Model and understand users before coding
We combine behavior-based research methods such as field observations and ethnographic studies, with task analysis and persona definition, to identify and satisfy user goals while simultaneously addressing defined business requirements - all before you begin coding.
The Catalyst Advantage
- Unsurpassed track record designing applications for financial services
- Identify and focus resources on scenarios that produce the greatest returns
- Improve adoption and reduce change orders through on-going user modeling & validation
- Define the best AJAX, Flex, Java,or RIA technology to match project requirements
- Provide clickable models to create an unambiguous visual blueprint for development
- Create modular reusable UI components to reduce development and QA times
- Validate that all data elements and UI components are matched to your database schema
- Provide on-going implementation support throughout the development cycle
Selected Client Work in Financial Services
AJAX and rich web applications
Catalyst is an expert in the design of AJAX, Flex and Java-based Rich Internet Applications. Based on an assessment of your project requirements, we select the toolkit that provides the best UI components, tools and scalability for development.
Over 13 Years of Experience with Application Design for Financial Services
Catalyst Resources has extensive experience with the complexity of scope and dependencies of financial services application design projects. We know our clients' business and have dealt with many of the issues, risks and challenges before. The UI for these applications must be tightly aligned with business processes, intuitive and fail safe.
The types of high-volume, mission-critical applications we have developed and successfully deployed include:
- ERP
- Order Management
- Payroll
- Procurement
- INSURANCE
- Insurance underwriting
- Insurance claims
- Policy management
- Agent services
- HUMAN RESOURCES
- Employee benefits
- General ledger
- Forecasting & budgeting
- BANKING
- Credit card services
- Consumer lending
- Stock and bond trading
- Mortgage brokerage
- RETAIL
- Retail brokerage tools
- Supply chain management
- Customer account management
- Configuration
Database schema validation using agile design
We rapidly iterate designs and systematically incorporate feedback to ensure that when a project goes live, there is predictability in how every task, every behavior and every data element will integrate with the back end business logic and technology.
The Bottom Line
The connection between a positive user experience and bottom-line results comes from real financial impact on a range of areas including software specification, development, training, deployment and maintenance throughout a project cycle, as well as customer retention, adoption and loss rates.
- APPLICATIONS FOR CUSTOMERS
- Higher retention
- Reduced marketing cost
- Reduced support cost
- Competitive differentiation
- SOFTWARE FOR EMPLOYEES
- Reduced staffing cost
- Reduced training and support
- Fewer data errors
- Greater efficiency
- FOR DEVELOPMENT
- Faster account specification
- Faster time to market
- Real time support
- Long life
UI consistency in mergers and acquisitions
Mergers, acquisitions, and fast growth often leave a financial services company with a consistency problem, leading to difficulty validating data and increased support costs. Catalyst can streamline post-merger application user experience and consistency. This can also facilitate regulatory compliance.
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