Monday, 14 November 2011

MCS Launches Xcelerate Program for Partners

MCS launch their new program for partners at the Microsoft Regional Partner Conference tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale.


The SharePoint Xcelerate Program is a joint Microsoft and MCS initiative which seeks to overcome the critical factors for successful SharePoint 2010 product adoption in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

The unique program leverage Microsoft products, marketing assets and team experience together with MCS's subject matter expertise and proven record track record, to help enable regional partners and clients to implement and adopt Microsoft solutions.



To learn more about the MCS SharePoint Xcelerate Program contact MCS today.
Tel: (345) 949-8263 or Email: marketing@mcs.ky

Friday, 9 September 2011

Client Portals – improving customer service and client retention

Client portals are private, secure online informational services that give customers the level of interactivity, flexibility and variety of information and data content that they demand from their service providers.  Whether at home, travelling, at work or at play — wherever they are, customers require ready access to their information. The financial services sector is no different, with clients commonly expecting to be provided with online access to their financial data including online banking, online portfolio management and corporate portals. In order to compete in a crowded marketplace, financial services companies must deliver online client access simply to achieve parity with other providers. Differential advantage can be attained by offering enhanced services and highly relevant personalized content online.


The maturation of the Internet has led to an environment where we expect to have access to our own information 24-hours a day, from any location in the world. We have become used to the availability of online banking, online travel booking and on-line information management as a matter of course. Against this backdrop, it is critical for financial services providers to be able to deliver similar functionality to their clients in order to meet expectations and develop loyalty.
The MCS Information Management (IM) solution includes integrated extranet components which quickly and securely deliver unique and dedicated document and information management portals for each customer, regardless of the back end systems or specific sector. These portals are automatically generated and support integrated publishing from the company’s internal information management systems out to individual client portal sites. They also support a straightforward, simple user interface which allows clients to find and work with their own information with minimal support or training. Finally, clients can also be proactively notified using ‘push’ technology of recent changes and document uploads to their site, so that they are kept informed of the latest information.

Benefits of an Effective Customer Portal Solution
An effective customer portal strategy can advance companies toward high performance by delivering a host of important benefits:
  • Lower Costs and Higher Productivity: A customer portal can help providers reduce their operating expenses, thanks to self-service capabilities and more rapid development times.
  • Improved Customer Control Over Rich and Relevant Content: Customers now expect to create, shape, share and receive their own content—accessing it whenever, wherever and however they want.
  • Better Customer Segmentation and Delivery of Relevant Services: Portals can enable providers to target multiple customer segments with as many differentiated and constantly evolving product and service bundles as possible
  • Powerful Aggregation: An effective portal strategy enables providers to aggregate and control innovative suppliers and third-party services, extracting value beyond data traffic.
  • An Improved Customer Experience and Better Service: Portals can help providers offer differentiated customer service capabilities while keeping costs under control.



With advanced self-service capabilities built on easy-to-use interfaces, client portals provide customers with the facility to access information and complete transactions without the need for assistance.
Take A Look!
We believe that the best way to understand how the MCS Client Portal Solutions can help your business is to see them in action. We organize regular briefings, workshops and demonstrations for clients on a one-on-one basis, or in small groups. Contact us to make an appointment.

Friday, 19 August 2011

Business Intelligence for Everyone

From boardroom executives to frontline operation managers, the uncertain economy has highlighted the necessity (and the benefits) of making informed decisions. To cut costs, streamline operation, and to fuel continual process improvements, employees must be empowered to make better decisions at every level in the organisation. Critical business data needs to be accessible to all employees, so that they can perform their own analyses and freely share insights with team members. With access to relevant data employees can find opportunities to operate more efficiently and grow revenues, so the company can emerge stronger from any economic environment.

Microsoft delivers a complete Business Intelligence (BI) suite with the familiar productivity tools in Microsoft Office 2010 and the collaboration and search technologies of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Using Microsoft Business Intelligence, your employees gain deep business insights while working in familiar environments, and then easily share these insights across the organisation.

The video below shows a brief introduction to the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite, to find out more about how to put BI in action, contact MCS today - sharepoint@mcs.ky or call (345) 949-8263.


Tuesday, 2 August 2011

MCS Ltd Wins Again

For Cayman at Microsoft World Partner Conference

MCS Ltd is proud to announce that it has won the 2011 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award Portals and Collaboration for the Latin America & Caribbean region, demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. MCS was also recognized as Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for the Cayman Islands.

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The MCS solution uses the Microsoft SharePoint platform as the basis for sophisticated enterprise collaboration and knowledge management, providing a business centric approach to the capture, consolidation and management of data, documents, ­files, email and email attachments. This provides users with easy access to a uni­fied view of all key information within the organization.

MCS attended the Microsoft World Partner Conference in Los Angeles in July and was proud to be able to fly the flag for Cayman, bringing back an important accolade. Each year at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft recognizes partners who have developed exemplary solutions for their customers. The winners and ­finalists for the WPC Awards Program demonstrate signifi­cant customer impact, originality, effective time to market, deployment of advanced features and the ability to optimize their use of Microsoft technologies to meet business needs.

MCS was chosen out of an international fi­eld of over 400 Microsoft partners from the Latin America and Caribbean, prevailing over stiff competition in the category, which included fi­nalists frimageom Brazil and Mexico. The Portals and Collaboration Partner of the Year Award honors a partner who has excelled in offering breakthrough SharePoint solutions to meet team and organization collaboration and connectivity needs across intranets, extranets and the Internet.

After the announcement of the award, CEO of MCS, Chris Lopez, commented:

“We are elated to accept the Microsoft Portals and Collaboration and Country Partner of the Year awards, which builds on the similar recognition we achieved last year. This places MCS and the Cayman Islands squarely on the Microsoft World Map. We have assembled a world class, multinational team and it is evident that the power of intellectual capital can be exponential!

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the members of the MCS SharePoint Consulting Practice as well as extend our gratitude to Microsoft for their continued support and partnership.”

Mariana Castro, Microsoft General Manager for the region stated:

“We are delighted that MCS have once again demonstrated their strength in delivering SharePoint solutions in the region. Securing the Portals and Collaboration Partner of the Year Award for 2011 illustrates a core competency that clients can truly depend upon.”

Monday, 27 June 2011

Competitive Advantage through Information Management

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As the Corporate and Trust administration sector becomes more competitive, leading companies are seeking competitive advantage through the implementation of information management solutions which reduce cost, improve efficiency and increase quality of customer service.

WPC11_WebBnnr_Anim_WinnerOver the last decade, MCS has established a position as the foremost supplier of solutions  to the Corporate and Trust  administration sector within the Cayman Islands and beyond. As the ViewPoint partner for Cayman, MCS has implemented more ViewPoint solutions for the management and administration of entities such as companies, trust, partnerships, foundations and funds than any other provider worldwide. MCS is also the leading SharePoint developer in the region and has been regularly recognized by Microsoft for its dedicated Corporate and Trust solution based on Microsoft SharePoint. MCS is the current Microsoft Latin America, 2011 Partner of the Year for Portals and Collaboration and was also the 2010 Information Management Partner of the Year.

“It’s incredible to see their level of expertise and their keen understanding of Microsoft SharePoint based solutions” – Alvaro Celis, Microsoft General Manager Multi-Country Americas.

Consider an environment where all the documents, email and database-data associated with your Corporate and Trust business activities are available in a single, unified location which is secure, compliant, searchable and available to everyone who needs it, even your clients.

MCS offers an integrated solution that complements any transactional Corporate and Trust database (including ViewPoint, 4Series and Blue Bison’s Company Manager) and deals with the core information management problems associated with Corporate and Trust administration. The MCS solution provides a single, holistic view of the client by bringing together essential data, email and documents on a corporate group or on a per managed entity basis. This award winning solution is now available as a standard consulting engagement from MCS and delivers the following core features:

  • Management Dashboards – Key Performance Indicators and metrics delivered in real-time.
  • Client-centric unified information – improving the productivity of administrators by bringing together Entity Email, Documents and Database data.
  • Integrated Scanning – reducing the cost of document management by streamlining paper-management.
  • Automatic document creation and reuse of existing data – integrating with Office tools.
  • Client Portal – improving customer service and client retention.
Management Dashboards – a flight-deck for the management team

clip_image004The ability to analyse the status of the business in real-time, with data which is correct to within a few hours rather than to the nearest month, can make the difference between success and failure. Companies which take advantage of this capability are able to make informed decisions more quickly and with greater confidence than those who are reliant on month-end, manually created reports. The information management solution from MCS includes pre-built dashboard structures which deliver key performance indicators specific to the Corporate and Trust sector, delivering the most important metrics in a highly visual and easy to consume form.

Client or Entity-centric Information

clip_image006Most organizations suffer from silos – information about the client is buried in multiple locations, typically in the main administration database, finance system, email system and document folders. Emails associated with the client may be buried in an individual’s mailbox or on a specific user’s hard-drive and are inaccessible to the rest of the team. This situation can become critical when the specific individual is unavailable and typically introduces inefficiency and increased cost to the problem of client management.

The MCS Information Management solution unifies information from all of these disparate sources into a single, simple view which individual administrators can view and search as a single source. A shared mailbox allows all emails associated with the client to be stored by each member of the team into a single location. Document libraries allow all the Word, Excel, PDF and other desktop documents to be stored together in a central location which provides versioning, retention policies and automatic change notifications.

Scanning – reducing the cost of paper management

clip_image008The scanning and filing of large numbers of corporate documents typically represents a significant level of inefficiency in Corporate and Trust environments. The MCS solution implements a bar-code based solution allowing the administrator to automatically generate a header sheet for any hard-copy document which needs to be stored in the information management system. This target document (with header sheet) can then be loaded into the scanner to await a scanning run. Once the document has been scanned it is automatically picked up by the IM solution and moved to the relevant client folder with an appropriate (auto-generated) file name which meets the corporate document naming convention. Implementing this process allows a single scanning run each day, with all documents loaded into the scanner and automatically routed to the relevant location, rather than requiring each administrator to scan and manually file their client-related documents.

Automatic document creation and eliminating re-keying – integrating with Office tools.

Re-keying of information is laborious, error-prone and inefficient. Far better to be able to take information directly from existing sources and insert it directly into the required document. The IM solution from MCS supports exactly this functionality by providing the ability to take data directly from the existing transactional database and introduce it into Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents. As the data comes directly from the source to the document the opportunity for re-keying errors is eliminated and the efficiency of the process is increased. In addition, standard document templates can be developed and data can be introduced directly into pre-defined fields within the document providing an efficient, streamlined and unified output.

Client Portals – improving customer service and client retention

clip_image010The maturation of the internet has led to an environment where we expect to have access to our own information 24-hours a day and from any location in the world. We have come to expect the availability of on-line banking, on-line travel booking and on-line information management. In this environment it is critical for Corporate and Trust administrators to be able to deliver a similar level of functionality to their client base, in order to meet customer expectation and develop customer loyalty.

The IM solution from MCS includes an integrated extranet component which can quickly and securely deliver dedicated document and information management portals for each customer. These portals are automatically generated and support integrated publishing from the internal management systems. They support a straightforward user interface which allows clients to find and work with their own information with minimal support or training.

Take A Look!

We believe that the best way to understand how the MCS Solution for Corporate and Trust Management can help your business is to see it in action. We organize regular briefings, workshops and demonstrations for clients on a one-on-one basis, or in small groups. Contact us to make an appointment.


Friday, 6 May 2011

Welcome to the MCS SharePoint Practice Blog

This blog will be used to publish information associated with the MCS Ltd. SharePoint Practice, including forthcoming events, useful product updates and information about SharePoint usage which may be of interest to our customers. Please use the email subscription tool on the right-hand side of this page to receive automatic updates…