IPS Clients
The Bank Of New York Mellon
iPlus 2.5 is deployed within the The Bank of New York Mellon shared services environment, to be taken advantage of by all of the 18 BNY M Asset Management companies.
This supports a manufacturing and distribution model and the rationalization of data collection within the group.
The model allows a manufacturer to use the application for its own publications while a distributor utilizes the data to push publications into its own sales channels.
This ensures the use of common data stores and business process across the Asset Management Group, simplifying and strengthening the information architecture.
In addition the iPlus application is not only outputting hard copy but is also feeding marketing product and performance data onto various web sites ensuring timeliness and consistency of data as well as contributing to a more efficient model.
To support this, the BNY Mellon team deal with requirement gathering, design, data management, compliance and production. A small in-house team handle the development of the materials and oversee management of Pune, in India, who run the production. The structure keeps the need for the more expensive expert resources to a minimum while allowing cost effective expansion of the production team.
Examples of the variety and quality of investment communications produced by BNY Mellon AM through iPlus can be viewed on the BNY Mellon web site here.
In addition to the webfeed and PDF output shown above, MS PowerPoint slides, templated MS Excel and Consultant Database Management feeds can be serviced from the unified iPlus datasource, bringing unparalleled consistency of information across distribution channels.
Caterpillar
An automated multilingual publishing system for Perkins Engines Ltd.
remains an active component of Caterpillar's, who acquired Perkins in
2000, manufacturing infrastructure, 10 years on from its initial
deployment. In that time the system has had one major upgrade - a port
from the original UNIX version to a platform independent version in
2004. When it is considered that we were originally brought in, though
Adobe, as the original contractor had said such a system would be
impossible to develop and that the system remains "state of the art"
even after such a long life, it ,again, is evident that the system has
proven exceptionally good value. The system is also readily responsive
to Perkin's current business requirements in servicing emerging
markets, in China, Brazil and India, in their native languages, which
again emphases Perkin's exceptionally good strategic choice in our
developing the system.
The AGCO Corporation (including separate work for Massey Fergusson)
IPS developed a method to organise their global marketing material which allows their supplier advertising agencies to upload material for authorisation and ammedment.
Threadneedle Asset Management, TAM
IPS developed a fund factsheet publishing system for Threadneedle Asset Management which draws data from Documentum.
The Ministry of Defence
IPS developed a system for the Admiralty to produce Notices to Mariners, these provide rapid dissemination of updates to navigational charts. Human life would be at risk if there were any failures, inaccuracies or tardiness in the dissemination this information, so the selection criteria, which lead to our own selection, was largely based on technical competence and proven know-how.
Dline
Dline, a Danish sign manufacturer, the preferred supplier to Richard Rogers and other leading architects. A system to allow the design, production, costing and invoicing of signs used within prestige buildings, the system has transformed the design and production of such signs from 2 months to a matter of minutes and was key to Dline’s interior design of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Other notable clients
