SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 380 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company.

Headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania, SunGard is comprised of four businesses - Availability Services, Financial Systems, Higher Education and Public Sector - that provide technology services and infrastructure, and software and processing solutions.

Financial services

SunGard Financial Systems provides mission-critical software and IT services to institutions in virtually every segment of the financial services industry. The primary purpose of most of these systems is to automate the many specialised business processes associated with trading, managing investment portfolios and accounting for investment assets. They address the processing requirements of a broad range of users within financial services, including asset managers, traders, custodians, compliance officers, treasurers, insurers, risk managers, hedge fund managers, plan administrators and clearing agents. SunGard’s systems account for and manage more than US$25 trillion in investment assets and process more than five million trades a day. SunGard also provides consulting services that focus on implementation and integration of these solutions and on software development.

The software and IT services offered by SunGard Financial Systems are grouped into the following businesses: alternative investments, banks and corporations, benefit administration, brokerage and clearance, capital markets and investment banking, consulting services, core banking, institutional asset management, insurance, trading, wealth management and workflow and business processing.

Public sector

SunGard Public Sector UK is the supplier of technology-driven effectiveness and efficiency to public sector organisations.

SunGard Public Sector UK solutions and services include public safety and justice applications as well as systems integration, outsourced managed services, professional services, business process improvement and consulting. SunGard Public Sector is pleased to have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category 2008, for its continued development of public safety systems, contributing to control room improvements and thereby saving lives. In the UK more than 50 million citizens are served by agencies that rely on SunGard Public Sector solutions.

Financial services
Public sector Application Development and Hosting
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
Commerce Solutions
Customer Relationship Management
Finance, Accounting and HR
High Performance Computing
Integration
Mobility
Security
Systems and Network Management
Training