Another asset for Merrill Lynch
The Client
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s leading financial management and advisory companies, with offices in 36 countries and total client assets of approximately $1.6 trillion, at the end of 2004.
Merrill Lynch has three core businesses - Global Private Client, Global Markets & Investment Banking Group and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers - offering a range of services for private clients, small businesses, institutions and corporations, and financial intermediaries.
Through Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, the company is one of the world’s largest managers of financial assets, with assets under management of $501 billion at the end of 2004.
Project Deployment Summary:
Merrill Lynch has built an internal portal, MLXi, for its employees to access all information that's relevant to their job. Before MLXi, employees did not have a centralized location to find information. The company built a portal infrastructure to integrate their applications.
Through the web Information Delivery component of MLXi, employees can access a variety of information delivered, concerning Human Resources issues, project planning and staffing.
They can choose various parameters for the requested information (such as dates, departments, level of detail). For example, if an employee wanted to know the completion status of various projects, or how much vacation time they had remaining, the business intelligence solution delivers that information via the portal.
The Challenges
- End to end Web architecture for design, deployment, administration & maintenance.
- Seamless look and feel integration capabilities with the company’s website.
- Online graphing and rich analytical capabilities
Business Benefits, Technical Differentiators
Merrill Lynch does not need to train employees in order to benefit from this web Information Delivery solution because it is seamlessly integrated with the portal.
Employees have instant access to information that helps them be more productive on projects