First-hand practitioner knowledge of direct and indirect investment across the Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Credit, Real Estate, and Infrastructure asset classes
Our eFront team combine industry leading Programme Management expertise with in-depth knowledge of alternative software solutions and specialist expertise in the eFront platform. We draw upon the following experience to deliver value to our clients:
- First-hand knowledge of direct and indirect investment across the Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Credit, Real Estate, and Infrastructure asset classes.
- Diverse knowledge across all Front to Back Office functions borne from first-hand experience working within General and Limited Partners.
- Best practice Governance Framework to allow for an effective Change Programme to deliver on-time and within budget.
- Collective experience and knowledge in order to design and deliver the most effective Alts Change Programme.
- Client success based upon mutual accountability for delivering successful project outcomes.
Nick Rockhold | Head of eFront Practice
Pre sales consulting
Guiding clients through the myriad of product, process and people considerations to set up for success
Target operating model design
Design of the future state of operations and the roles & responsibilities of each function to support a scalable investment practice to meet long-term growth.
Technical architecture
Design of the technological landscape to provide an integrated and adaptable solution across deal flow, trade execution, accounting, compliance, portfolio management and reporting.
Strategic advice
Ongoing strategy and advice as you scale and maximise your proposition on eFront
Transformation
Turning the vision into reality to deliver the Target Operating Model and Technological Architecture to a timeline and budget, and ensuring business buy-in and adoption.
Testing and migration
Expert guidance through the future state migration phase, from initial testing/UAT, through model office, parallel running, and cut over
Alternative investments
The success of a project is often determined by strong governance with core project principles including:
- Clear project oversight, reporting and decision-making structure.
- Have an adaptable, de-risked approach to project management and delivery that fits client needs.
- Early and consistent Stakeholder Engagement to aid in clearly defined requirements and to obtain user adoption of the solution.
- Realisation of early business value is often more important than providing a perfect solution.
- Adoption of industry standard business processes and utilisation of native system functionality.
- Target architectural simplicity and limit integration points between platforms or data siloes to reduce technological effort and data administrative overhead.
- Build for the future and deliver a flexible solution that will allow for growth.
Solutions to enable your business
Aladdin
Practice
- Enterprise / Risk Implementations
- M&A integration
- Accounting & Performance
- Op Model design + Optimisation
- Risk, Data & Interfaces
- Aladdin Data Cloud
- Aladdin Climate
- Aladdin Wealth
- Health Check
Business
intelligence
Driving actionable insights for your business and your clients. Generating competitive advantage through our expertise in Data, Technology and Finance.
- Data & Investment Analytics
- ESG
- Client Reporting
- Regulatoary Reporting
- Compliance
- Performance
Business
innovation
Bringing to market innovative, value add products and services.
Custom Insight Generation
Data integration, Modelling & Accelerators
POC and prototyping
- Bespoke tooling
“Strata have integrated seamlessly into many areas of Newton’s Aladdin implementation project, providing deep subject matter expertise on the system and valuable experience of the challenges and pitfalls learned through their prior implementations.”
“The Strata team are game changers when it comes to data and analytics and have consistently delivered complex and ground-breaking solutions for M&G in true partnership style. From data modelling through to data surfacing and visualisation, they have collaborated and added real value to our front office stakeholders, in turn moving the dial on how we model and report on ESG. Strata's formula of combining deep investments knowledge, internal and vendor data expertise and technical capabilities delivers high impact results, and I would highly recommend them to anyone looking to take their use of data to the next level.”
"Strata have extensive knowledge and expertise on both complex OTC products and the Aladdin system, which they have utilised to great effect. The impact of their strategic approach and dynamic team on the Swiss Re business means we are already seeing a significant return on investment.”
