Even as national mega-banks and multi-state regional banks make new acquisitions, community banks remain healthy and new bank creation continues. This convergence is creating intense competition as banks of all sizes search for new ways to differentiate their service offerings and solidify relationships with their customers. When used creatively, information technology can create a significant competitive advantage for any bank, regardless of market or size.

Why B2B Technologies?
In 1998, the Equifax E-Banking Solutions Group tapped B2B Technologies to develop an early Internet banking product for its corporate customers. Since then, B2B has broadened its financial services expertise by building, installing and maintaining intranet portals, business intelligence systems and line-of-business applications for banks of all sizes. These implementations of advanced technologies are tightly integrated with the systems already operating in customers' banking environments.

B2B Technologies' expertise in the financial services arena addresses competitive differentiation and customer relationship management from every angle, including:

• Portals - Uniting complex applications from disparate systems under an intranet portal, allowing employees to use a single sign-on and common navigation techniques to move from application to application easily and seamlessly.
• Business Intelligence - Combining transactional data from dozens of "silo'd" departmental and operational systems in a data warehouse, and using sophisticated analysis/reporting tools to pinpoint patterns and trends that lead to insightful decision-making.
• Line-of-Business Applications - Determining which product offerings, and even which customers, contribute the most to the institution's bottom line, and using that information for up-selling and cross-selling additional products and services and Scorecarding departments and personnel.

Financial services expertise gained through experience

When banks and financial services providers need technology advice and assistance, they turn to B2B Technologies. Recently, B2B has completed projects for Equifax E-Banking Solutions, SunTrust Banks, Tax Partners and Visual Capital. We invite you to learn more about our capabilities by reviewing these two relevant case studies:

• SunTrust: Why financial services personnel, often working in tandem, needed an advanced workflow management system to ensure accuracy and accountability in servicing treasury products and loan accounts.
• Equifax E-Banking Solutions Group: How one of the world's leading financial services companies leveraged advanced technology to help corporate customers enter the world of e-banking in 1998.