Kestrel often consults on modifications and/or improvements to a company’s existing trading systems — even when third-party or proprietary technologies are involved.

Our trading specialists will examine your current business processes and systems and make recommendations to address the specific challenges you face. Most often, we recommend modifications and additions to your existing system (rather than the implementation of Kestrel software). Companies may require Kestrel’s advice for any number of technical obstacles, including:

• Systems Integration – Systems are not communicating with one another, resulting in disparate silos of information.
  
  
• Business Intelligence – Traders do not have access to the meaningful information they need to do their jobs.
  
  
• Reporting Functionality – Systems are not giving traders and end-users the ability to do multi-dimensional analysis.

Our consulting offerings fall into three main categories:

• Business Process Analysis – Kestrel business analysts take a fine-toothed comb to your company’s workflow, analyzing what information is used to make decisions and what happens after decisions are made. The analysts identify redundant, manual and otherwise ineffective processes to achieve straight-through processing.
  
  
• Technology Recommendations – The analysts write up a thorough, detailed assessment study and present the findings to you. The study contains a summary of the problem set and specific recommendations to address each problem. Our goal in the planning phase is to become your technology partner — we’ll work with you to design technology solutions that solve your problems. During this collaboration, we’ll determine to what degree existing technology can be modified and what, if any, new functionality must be put in place.
  
  
• Implementation – Once we’ve identified the appropriate software solutions, our developers are available to collaborate with your technology staff to find the best way to achieve a seamless implementation. Our implementation process is highly collaborative, and may include our consultants working on-site, hand-in-hand with your in-house technology staff.

For more information about our consulting services, please call us at 212-440-5999.