Platform Modernisation & Delivery
Select, configure, integrate and migrate critical business platforms.
Technology & Data
Technology Strategy & Architecture
Set a technology direction the business can fund and implement.
Overview
What this means for your business.
Technology strategy connects the capabilities the business needs with investment priorities and the evolution of the existing estate.
Capmark assesses platforms, data, interfaces, infrastructure and control requirements, then develops target architecture and a sequenced roadmap. We help clients evaluate build, buy and vendor options with costs and trade-offs visible.
Architecture governance and design decisions support a coherent approach across programmes and delivery teams.
What we do
The expertise we bring.
We assess the estate application by application: platforms, interfaces, data flows, upgrade backlogs, support risk and spreadsheets doing critical work. The output is a clear map of what you run, what it depends on and where the constraints sit.
We define the target architecture across platforms, data, integration and infrastructure, then cost and stage the move against funding cycles and the operational calendar. The result is an investment roadmap a board can approve.
Where a platform decision is open, we run build-vs-buy analysis and vendor evaluation. Criteria are weighted to your workflows, integration reality, data needs, control requirements and long-term cost.
We design the data and integration layer before platform decisions are locked in: which system owns each data set, how systems connect, and where controls sit. Each new platform should strengthen the estate, not add another reconciliation.
We stand up design authority, standards, decision records and review cadence so multiple delivery teams build one coherent estate. We stay through the first delivery stage so the architecture is proven and adjusted where needed.
What to expect
A team shaped around the work.
A Principal leads from day one. The first weeks map the estate, interview application owners and architects, and verify interfaces, data flows, support positions and vendor roadmaps.
The engagement ends with a costed, sequenced roadmap a steering committee can govern. Where delivery proceeds, the same senior practitioner stays through the first stage so the architecture is tested before the programme scales.
Engagements are typically used before a major platform, cloud, data or integration programme is funded.
Typically engaged before a major platform, cloud or data programme is scoped, so the investment case and sequencing are set before money is committed.
01
Assess
Establish the current state, the constraints, the risks and the value at stake.
02
Define
Shape the target model and the business case with the executives who own the outcome.
03
Mobilise
Stand up the team, the plan and the governance around the outcome.
04
Implement
Design, build and test the change, with the business alongside.
05
Sustain
Cutover, hypercare and handover, so the business runs it under its own control.
The same five stages on every engagement, led by senior practitioners end to end. How we work
Client result
Relevant client experience.
Superannuation & Pensions
Calypso platform delivery for a major superannuation fund
A Major Australian Superannuation Fund · Liquidity & Treasury Management
We helped implement Calypso for liquidity and treasury operations across the UK and Australia, including trading workflows, venue integration, middle-office design and regulatory reporting. The programme also internalised externally managed portfolios, transitioning mandates and books onto the in-house investment platform and operating model.
- A$10bn
- Portfolios internalised
- A$20m
- Programme budget led
- 2 jurisdictions
- Delivered live across the UK and Australia
- Calypso
- Front-to-back treasury platform delivered
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Insights
Related perspectives.
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