SunGard Focuses on Technology-Enablement Consulting to Create Client Value Beyond Cost

HfS recently visited SunGard, the financial services technology business services provider, for an executive briefing on the firm’s services capabilities. The newest element of SunGard’s portfolio of services focuses primarily on broadening the firm’s consultative capabilities centered on financial systems and technology.

Cost remains a serious consideration in the minds of financial services leaders, and SunGard Financial Systems is looking towards technology as an enabler to help its clients achieve new thresholds of cost savings that are not solely tied to wage arbitrage. SunGard is taking on a broader consultative and hands-on approach with clients to help them achieve these goals.

The following Rapid Insight examines SunGard’s Consulting Services group, its market strategy, and an understanding of how it fits into SunGard’s overall business structure.