Company Overview

Locations

Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL

Offices in Charlotte, NC , Chicago, IL & Washington, DC

Consultants located through out the U.S.

Industry Recognition

“Quality Vendor of the Year” by Wachovia “Minority Technology Firm of the Year” for the Southeastern US Excellence in IT Leadership Award for NE Florida by ITFlorida. Inc. 5,000 - Fastest-Growing Private Companies Jacksonville Business Journal - 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Florida Trend – Best Companies to Work For Jacksonville Business Journal – Largest Minority-Owned Businesses

Meridian Overview

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Meridian Overview

Consulting Services - (MCS)• Deliverables based work, milestone driven• Projects & relationships managed by Meridian, ensuring client ROI, satisfaction and retention• Expertise and partnerships with leading data integration and BI solution providers

Staffing Services - (MSS)• Individual contractor focused; staff augmentation based on skill set and experience• “Best in class” recruiting & vetting process

Product Development - (MPG)• Automated Test Data Management Product – AcceleTest• Business Analytics and product development with QlikView

Public Sector - (MPS)• Consulting services to large Federal and State government agencies• Active engagements with Department of Defense and State of Florida

Meridian Overview

Think of Meridian For…

• Deliverable Based IT Solutions• Business Analytics & Intelligence• Data Management• Custom Application Development• Performance Engineering• Project Oversight & Rescue• Quality & Testing• Co-Sourcing & Staffing

The Meridian Experience

Partnership

Trust

Long Term Relationships

Best Practices

Execution

Thought Leadership

Align to Business Strategy

Sample Projects

ChallengeA bank needed an enterprise solution to manage legal entities (obligors across 20 lines of business). The legacy CIS system and LOB applications were mandated to remain in place. The solution needed to provide capability to search obligor, de-dupe, merge, split, and group. The solution also needed to provide for ownership, reconciliation, challenge, and escalation protocols.

SolutionMeridian created Customer Information System services using an SOA approach that leveraged two integration frameworks for Line Of Business applications.

BenefitMeridian implemented this project on time and under budget using less than 1/10 of the people that a competitor had proposed. Meridian’s expertise accelerated development and implementation meeting the bank’s needs.

Legal Entity Management System

ChallengeThe CFO needed a financial dashboard and analytics solution to effectively manage the financials of the business. Each time he needed a report, he went to his Controller and she had to log in and out of multiple systems to create a report that met his needs. The CEO would look at a report and ask questions that required yet more time and another report to answer.

SolutionMeridian created a solution in QlikView that surfaced all of the relevant financial data from the Line of Business application so the entire management team had real time access to the financial data.

BenefitThe CFO keeps his finger on the pulse of the business with immediate insight into the financials. The finance team is no longer in the business of creating reports and are freed up to spend their time on items core to the business.

Financial Analytics Solution

ChallengeAfter 9/11, the Patriot Act required financial institutions to monitor every transaction for suspicious activity. Due to the nature of the Act, financial institutions had a short window of time to implement a solution to meet the mandate. This bank needed a solution that would support the integration of 26 disparate systems housed across all lines of business. Each system represented an independent architecture, data structure and technology base which varied widely and had been implemented at various times over the past 20 years. The vendor that was chosen was failing to meet deadlines and the project was in trouble.

SolutionMeridian met with the business and the technology groups and in a few months, developed a solution that processed 30 million records daily to determine if the transaction met the Patriot Act’s AML triggers. The automated operation of the system involved over 200 jobs with cross dependencies.

BenefitThe bank met the Patriot Act deadlines and the project was a success.

Anti Money Laundering

ChallengeAn organization used an application developed in house to update the Master Data Management (MDM) system. Because the supporting batch process took so long to update the MDM, it was not useful to the business.

SolutionMeridian landed a team to conduct a detailed analysis beginning with the business requirements, architecture, design, and code review. Within three weeks, the team identified areas of opportunity for system improvement and prototyped the changes.

BenefitMeridian reduced the batch processing cycle by more than 50% enabling the business to make faster changes to the master data management system. This provided the Finance Business organization with the ability to stay in sync with the enterprise’s rapidly evolving business processes.

Master Data Management

ChallengeA large organization did not have an automated regression testing process. They relied on downstream applications systems teams to perform the regression test as part of their own release testing process. The approach was inconsistent and time consuming.

SolutionMeridian completed a SWOT analysis for: project methodology and process; test practices, tools, and automation; test data and test data management. Designed a data-driven regression test framework and implementation strategy to address short and long term goals.

BenefitThe company had a consistent and effective testing process.

Core Banking Regression Test Assessment

ChallengeThe technology group spent considerable resources building a solution for that provided comprehensive reporting capabilities but the lines of business group were not utilizing the system. Instead, the business constituents continued to leverage an application they built in Access.

SolutionThe Meridian team held sessions with the different business teams to understand their workflows and their requirements for reporting.

BenefitMeridian built a plan to bridge the gap between the current system that IT developed and a system that the business groups would use. This solution met everyone’s objectives and fostered a collaborative environment.

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