Merrill Lynch's IT Initiatives

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Case Code : ITSY038
Case Length : 16 Pages
Period : 1997 - 2004
Pub Date : 2004
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Merrill Lynch
Industry : Financial Services
Countries : USA

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SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

ML's top management team, headed by the Chairman and CEO, Stan O'Neal, who was the head of GPC, and Byron Vielehr, erstwhile CTO of GPC, were put in charge of the project.

One major issue they faced was whether to build the system in-house, as with TGA, or to outsource a significant portion of the project to one or more vendors while retaining critical tasks involving proprietary information for in-house development. Service oriented tasks such as network maintenance and system maintenance were guided through SLAs. ..

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The System Roll Out

During the project's first year, ML devoted a significant amount of time to rolling out several applications, which would be used by the FA's, such as client review centre, wealth management applications, trading centre etc. The client review centre was a new client service tool in the FAs'kitty, which enabled them to develop customized portfolio reports for clients...

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Exhibit I: Merrill Lynch's TGA Project

Exhibit II: Merrill Lynch's TGA Screen

Exhibit III: Wealth Management Platform Overview

Exhibit IV: Expected Benefits from Wealth Management Workstation

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