Reaching Targets

We identify hotspots in your IT projects, address pain points that impede your business and bring in expertise and context to solve your true requirements.

The Company

Founded 1998 in Switzerland, Scilla offers IT consulting services to private banks and wealth management companies. Proficiency in IT combined with competency in private banking qualify us to work at the interface between business and IT. With mandates in Europe, Asia Pacific and in the Americas, we successfully operate and perform in different environments, delivering both viable strategies and hands-on solutions.

Sigrid Unseld - Founder and CEO

Sigrid has worked as an IT consultant for more than 25 years for major Swiss banks and private banks in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. She has managed international projects at program and project level and has experience in many areas of private banking including customer facing solutions, products and services, regulatory reporting and MIS. She has been responsible for the development of regional IT strategies, operating models, application and data architectures as well as for the evaluation and implementation of core banking packages and dedicated business applications.
Sigrid has a master in mathematics and a PhD in computer science. She is a lecturer for information management at the University of Zurich.

Services

IT Strategy

We help you design strategic roadmaps to take your business to the next level and to empower you to become truly excellent in your core competencies. In an era of increasing regulatory complexity, we work with you to develop IT strategies and tactical solutions that are aligned with regulatory oversight and the banks' business strategies, business and operating models.

Business Analysis

By working together with your business users and stakeholders, we understand your objectives and priorities. Our experience enables us to identify and document your requirements and to prepare functional specification for front, middle and back office solutions. We reengineer and develop business process models, analyse gaps between current and target, and position new requirements.

Data and Architecture

Good process, systems, and data architectures enable you to adapt quickly to new requirements and stay ahead of your competitors. We build best-fit architectures for your bank by using our competence in process engineering, data modeling and architectural design. We analyse, compare, and enhance your existing solutions or develop new solutions.

Feasibility Studies and Reviews

Banks are increasingly seeking to streamline their operations and systems. We review your application and data architecture, systems and system components, data models, and business processes. We help assess conceptual, functional and technical solution proposals, migration scenarios as well as governance structures for programs and initiatives.

Solution Evaluation

We evaluate commercial banking packages and inhouse banking platforms as well as systems / applications for specific business areas. During the evaluation process, we prepare request for proposals, investigate functional and technical feasibility, analyse gaps and the need for specify enhancements, and define integration and interface requirements. We also conduct comprehensive market surveys to identify candidate solutions.

Program Management

An external program manager brings a different perspective and a unique drive. We combine our international experience and local knowledge, skills and passion, in order to achieve your objectives. We provide guidance in program governance, funding models, stakeholder management and vendor management across business areas, divisions and geographies.

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Contact Us

Scilla Consulting GmbH
Zaehringerplatz 11
8001 Zurich
Switzerland


Email: sigrid.unseld@scilla.com