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Aladdin Enterprise Implementation
Successful Aladdin Enterprise Implementation is about more than installing a platform, our hands on practitioners design and deliver processes that work for your business, helping your teams adopt it effectively, achieve efficiencies, and realise lasting value.
At Strata, we partner with clients across asset and wealth management, insurance, asset ownership and servicing to make the most of their Aladdin investment.
Aladdin Enterprise Implementation
Supporting your team, every step of the journey
Our hands-on practitioners bring extensive Aladdin delivery experience, but our focus is always on enabling your team.
We help you:
- Implement and adopt Aladdin smoothly and cost-effectively
- Onboard new funds or instruments and optimise day-to-day workflows
- Train and build confidence amongst users through our practitioner-led expertise, to ensure you maintain momentum post go-live
Tailored Guidance for Lasting Impact
Every organisation is different. That’s why we take a collaborative approach, working with your leadership and teams to navigate the complexities of an Aladdin Enterprise implementation. We are outcomes focussed, ensuring processes and workflows are designed to meet your business outcomes.
A Trusted Partner in Aladdin Optimisation
Our aim is to strengthen your in-house capability while remaining a trusted partner whenever you need us. By embedding best practices and supporting continuous improvement, we help ensure your Aladdin platform delivers efficiency, scalability and business value, both now and in the future.
Expertise across the end-to-end investment lifecycle including:
- Front office and Trading
- Middle office / Outsourcing
- Accounting, Performance & Client Reporting
- Risk & Exposure Management
- Regulation
- Compliance
- Technology, Data & Infrastructure
Why Clients Value Our Team
Our Tried and Tested Approach
PRE IMPLEMENTATION
DESIGN
BUILD
TEST
LIVE / BAU
Implementation Readiness
Structured governance and strategic advisory ensure your Aladdin Enterprise Implementation is set up for success, aligning commercial decisions, project planning, and early delivery on core priorities.
Analysis & Design Phase
We ensure that you are getting the right solution for your business. We understand your requirements and draw upon smilar scenarios from our diverse client base, before applying our extensive analysis and design knwoledge to quickly arrive at the right solution. We understand your funds, and how the Aladdin platform works, and design the most optimal target operating model to bring together your people, process and data to maximise your return on investment.
Business Process Reviews (BPRs)
Capture your current and future -state operating model through structured discovery and design, bulding the foundation for an Aladdin Enterprise Implementation that streamlines workflows and delivers measurable value.
Interface Development
From data feeds to Aladdin Data Cloud (ADC) onboarding, we design and deliver robust system interfaces that underpin a connected, efficient enterprise implementation.
Compliance Rules Coding
Extract, build, and rigorously test investment compliance rules to ensure your Aladdin Enterprise implementation delivers accurate controls and regulatory alignment.
Build Phase
We design the change and then implement it, taking accountability for ensuring the right solution is delivered safely. to do this we leverage our deep understanding of the investment landscape and of Aladdin to ensure you get the right fit for purpose solution. Our configuration, interface build and compliance process has been gained from a diverse range of industry scenarios, giving you access to an unrivalled knowledge and experience base.
Aladdin Risk
Run daily portfolio risk and analytics in Aladdin, establishing early data reconciliation and validation to strengthen controls and build confidence in your enterprise implementation.
System Configuration
Configure and customise Aladdin and integrate with third-party systems, ensuring your enterprise technology landscape is fully connected and aligned to your operating model.
Test Plan
Develop a clear, detailed test plan, capturing scenarios and documentation that underpin a seamless Aladdin Enterprise Implementation and reduce project risk.
Test Phase
Our team specialises in providing expert guidnce through the future state migration phase, from initial testing and UAT, through model office, parallel running, cut over and ongoing support. With 1000’s of hours of testing under our belts we cut straight to the heart of an issue and can quickly pinpoint the best solution.
Data Conversion, Planning, Testing
Design and execute structured data conversion and dry-run exercises, ensuring accurate, reliable data migration into Aladdin and wider enterprise systems.
Unit and User Acceptance Testing
Facilitate unit testing and UAT, including day-in-the-life workflows and scripted scenarios – equipping Super Users to lead adoption and embed Aladdin within daily operations.
Parallel Testing
Conduct full end-to-end parallel runs across legacy systems and the Aladdin platform – validating accuracy, stability, and readiness ahead of enterprise go-live.
Live / BAU Phase
We deploy world class project managers with extensive Aladdin experience to deliver your programme safely and on time. We understand where the risks are and are able to mitigate them through our knowledge and expertise in delivering similar engagements. Our engagement model sets us apart – we are one team, coming with a level of expertise across a diverse range of skillsets to solve the varying challenges of a change programme as it unfolds.
Cutover
Manage the transition to live operations with precision – coordinating cutover activities, ensuring business continuity, and providing dedicated hypercare support post-Aladdin Enterprise Implementation.
What Outcomes Can You Expect?
Leverage our extensive Aladdin experience to significantly reduce the time required for planning and executing your project. Our team knows what it takes to deliver successfully, enabling us to pinpoint potential risks and implement effective mitigation strategies. This expertise ensures you achieve high quality outcomes, while accelerating your project’s time-to-market.
Optimise the costs of your Aladdin Enterprise implementation as we dynamically scale our team composition to provide the right level of support during critical phases. We help you identify and invest in the appropriate ancillary systems to maximise benefits in the target state while decommissioning any redundant ones. Our expertise ensures your business and processes are aligned to realise the full potential and value delivery of the Aladdin platform.
We view your Aladdin Enterprise implementation as an integrally connected component of your business and technology ecosystem. Our holistic perspective encompasses your entire architecture, systems, and desired business outcomes – whilst implementing Aladdin within the agreed time-frame. This comprehensive approach ensures a seamless integration that amplifies the platform’s impact on your organisation.
With our guidance, you can confidently make the right choices for your business, fully comprehending the implications of design decisions. Our advice is grounded in decades of experience and an intimate knowledge of Aladdin best practices. We guide clients on what will and won’t work on Aladdin, eliminating the need for unnecessary and costly rework down the line.
Our seasoned professionals offer hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and training client teams on the most effective and efficient target operating models. Their expertise streamlines the adoption of Aladdin while fostering maximum business buy-in, ensuring a seamless transition to optimised operations.
Why Clients Trust our Team
INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS
Our industry practitioner led delivery teams will enable you to successfully adopt Aladdin across Front, Middle and Back office. With hands on Aladdin practitioner experience from Asset Managers, Asset Owners and Asset Servicers, we design and deliver the change for your organisation.
DELIVERY CERTAINTY
We are one team, that takes responsibility for delivering outcomes for our clients across the Aladdin lifecycle. With many ex-BlackRock, our team gives you access to the gold standard in training, process definition, data integration, and Aladdin knowhow to enable your teams.
GLOBAL TEAM
We bring clients the experience of our collective involvement in all major Aladdin implementations globally, with offices across the US, EMEA and APAC regions as a result of continued client success. Rely on our team to deliver your project or augment your team.
PRODUCTS & ACCELERATORS
Our experience in solving client challenges and streamlining implementations comes to life in the products and accelerators that we have developed. Our solutions compliment your experience on Aladdin, help drive your adoption of the platform and enhance your return on investment.
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