Digital & Automation

Process automation and analytics for transforming enterprise functions, leveraging low-code platforms for delivery that's 10 times quicker than traditional methods

Data & process automation for key business functions

Successful data and process automation in financial services firms can be the key to operational efficiency, accuracy and improved regulatory compliance. Automation can also enhance the speed and accuracy of decision-making, increase scalability, and support the development of new products and services.

Successful automation initiatives require strong leadership support, the right technology tools to enable the rapid automation of complex processes and skilled engineering teams to design, implement and manage effective systems designed for the business.

Our Appian BPM and and Alteryx Automation teams bring together both deep business transformation experience and technical capabilities to deliver outstanding business outcomes rapidly on the Appian and Alteryx platform.​

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Are you operating a digital and automated business?

Our experts can help you gain a better understanding of how much potential you have to leverage technology to accelerate growth, efficiency and control in your business area. 

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What are the common digital and automation challenges?

The finance function is required to service an ever increasing portfolio of changes and demands whilst needing to devote more time to partnering with business users to ensure decision making such as optimal pricing, optimal capital allocation, optimal hedging and more for driving maximum business value.

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Case Studies

Our clients have realised development improvements and transformed their timelines, speeding up their processes.

 

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Digital transformation for a fast-growing fintech

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Methodologies – The Nexus Strategy Playbook

NextWave’s unique delivery methodology – the Nexus playbook, contains the process steps and deliverables we use to develop and execute a strategy.

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Discover

Rapidly identify current state – business objectives/pain points & opportunities, stakeholders, organisation, processes, data, technology.

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Visualise

Definition of target state business footprint, capabilities and requirements, business targets & KPIs, solution concepts & roadmaps.

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Evaluate

Identify, evaluate & choose from business case & solution options, deployment approaches, service designs & implementation plans.

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Design

Business case & delivery plan detail – services, solution, technology, data, operating model detail architecture & design.

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Deliver

Service & product build – data, application and infrastructure integrations & testing. Deployment & operation.

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Leverage

Benefits realisation & KPI measurement. Backlog and next phase opportunity review & prioritisation. Lessons learnt. Communicate & leverage.

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Our digital focus areas

Organisations need to automate away the baggage of production, freeing up capacity to redirect efforts. We deploy a unique combination of Appian and Alteryx technology features to provide rapid business outcomes.

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Workflow

Managing the hand-off between people tasked with activities across the department, using either work-queue based or email prompts to individuals to trigger the work. Full timings and audit trail allow continuous process analysis and improvement. We have a team of engineers available to help you with every step of the process.

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Automation

Our technology solutions allow you to easily deploy connectors into end-user databases or built-in robotics functions. This captures the timings and effort spent, uncovers the top opportunities and reduces both operational risk and execution cycle times for improved ROI.

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Data repository

Lifting critical data out of legacy or Excel based solutions to a repository provides full auditability and lifecycle of the data attributes and simplifies integration with internal golden sources to avoid re-keying.

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Enhanced user experience

Rapid implementation of changes increases development productivity gains. Cloud enabled solutions provide a low-operating cost, rapid provisioning and high performance globally, ensuring a great user experience.
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Business partnering

Provide insight about the optimisation of pricing, returns, capital usage and liquidity as well as real-time predictions for business leaders to make better decisions.
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Finance of the future

The key pillars of change to deliver the finance functions of the future include control and oversight, professional skills, problem solving, communication skills, data science and leadership. 
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Our technology partners

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NextWave Digital & Automation Perspectives

NextWave wins Appian 2024 Industry Award for Financial Services
Awards
Maya Kokerov
Maya Kokerov
We are delighted to share that NextWave has been selected as the winner of the Appian 2024 Industry Award for Financial Services. This award recognises our outstanding achievement ...
Maya Kokerov
Maya Kokerov
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AI In financial services: An introduction
Digital & Automation
David Aston
David Aston
This is the first in a series of articles helping to shed some light on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (commonly known as AI). This first article will focus on providing ...
David Aston
David Aston
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Automating first line support using natural language processing
Digital & Automation
Phil Kent
Phil Kent
NLP and Artificial Intelligence Perspectives / Automating first line support using natural language processing Improving the customer experience can do done quickly and at a low ...
Phil Kent
Phil Kent
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Finance skill sets of the future
Digital & Automation
David Aston
David Aston
Insight into how technology will change roles and responsibilities
David Aston
David Aston
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Interview with Tony Clark: Digital transformation in financial services
Transformation
Charles Rustin
Charles Rustin
What can senior financial services executives do now to take advantage of the current opportunities and mitigate the potential threats of digital transformation? Perspectives / ...
Charles Rustin
Charles Rustin
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Our experts

Our team have decades of experience in top-tier global banks and have a proven track record of delivering successful strategy plans and executing business solutions for clients. Their deep understanding of large scale organisational transformation will provide your business with innovative solutions that drive business growth. 

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Phil Kent
Practice Lead (UK)
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Helen Bull
Practice Lead (NL)
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Sagar Passi
Appian Consultant (UK)

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