Dubai (PRWEB) November 22, 2011
SunGard has launched Ambit MyMoney, an integrated online and mobile banking platform, to help banks capitalize on the increasing global adoption of smart mobile devices by creating a consistent and customizable mobile banking experience. The new solution helps banks provide seamless online and mobile banking services to retail and business customers via the Web, mobile phone and tablet computer.
Ambit MyMoney includes out-of-the-box integration to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and offers greater social visibility for banks through a feature that allows customers follow via the banks own Facebook and Twitter sites. Customers can also like the banks products and services, and choose to receive alerts and notifications via these channels, thereby extending bank-to-customer communication beyond existing SMS or email channels.
The solutions personal financial management (PFM) tools help bank customers share financial savings goals via social media with selected friend groups. The tools also include modules for secure feedback and a centralized message center that is accessible across all channels.
Michael Araneta, associate director at IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific, said, Over the next few years, financial institutions around the world will be racing to leverage mobile social media to create service differentiators and augment customer stickiness. We believe that SunGard's Ambit MyMoney proposition brings to market unique and compelling features that are potential game-changers for banks. Ambit MyMoneys ability to harness social media, integrated with real-time analytics and functionalities for end-users customize their experience has the potential to be a hit with consumers."
David Hamilton, president of SunGards Banking business, said, Many consumers now see virtual channels as the primary window into their relationships with service providers, including their banks. The challenge for banks is how to meet these changing consumer demands. SunGards Ambit MyMoney is an additive banking solution that helps banks offer highly personalized banking to their customers, to help them build more profitable relationships and deliver a seamless experience, no matter which mobile channel the customer chooses to use.
The Ambit MyMoney multi-channel platform provides retail customers online and mobile access to a broad set of secure financial and non-financial transactions, all of which integrate in real time to the banks transactional and operational systems. For business customers, Ambit MyMoneys cash management capabilities can help them better track and manage their finances while on-the-go, through tools such as role-based authority for users, variable limits, batch payments, salary payments and maker-checker features with multiple levels of approval. Ambit MyMoney is customizable at the platform level and on an individual user basis, and includes widgets such as FX rates, news feeds and goal planners, which can be configured on the customers dashboard. Ambit MyMoneys built-in business process management (BPM) engine helps banks ensure a consistent and uniform experience regardless of channel and helps the bank measure, monitor and pro-actively manage service levels. Ambit My Money is part of SunGards Ambit Customer Management suite that helps banks create more profitable relationships while enhancing the customer experience.
About SunGards Ambit
SunGard's Ambit is a banking solution suite for retail, commercial and private banks. It provides banking professionals with solutions that support front, middle- and back-office operations, as well as solutions for financial management, risk and performance. Ambit helps banks retain and acquire customers, improve staff efficiency and effectively measure and allocate their capital. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com/ambit.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves more than 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company.
Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and Ambit are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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