The Wealth Management Network from Fiserv is an expansive networks of managed account data and connectivity. It brings together asset managers and sponsors to perform all necessary business functions to support the industry. The Network includes messaging services, information exchange, and managed account data services.
They offer almost every single thing a financial institution would need for their core business allows you to save quite a bit of money by bundling everything together. Fiserv has greatly increased the speed in which they roll out new banking product. From a banking software platform, they are the best in the business.
Cost ... it's definitely not the cheapest option out there. the way pricing is itemized and a separate upcharge for each add-on gets annoying. They can probably bundle things a little better and offer a discount on the bundled products
the volume of system updates and changes is nauseating at times and we have to prepare and test accordingly every time there is a scheduled update. that takes up a lot of resources; quarterly updates to products would be much easier.
more responsive support and ideally more stable support engineers ... it seems like turnover is high in their support roles and that impacts customer success and MTTR.
I can't name any other competitors that we considered because I have signed multiple NDAs that prohibit me from doing so. I can say that the decision to go with Fiserv WMN was in large part because we have other Fiserv Products and as a result, we already have a strong established relationship with Fiserv (and First Data for that matter, before they were acquired by Fiserv)
Speed of service is greatly improved across partners. I believe our MTTR for service requests has improved by 30-40%
Standardized platform for our staff which translates to better retention and a lower training effort.
Cost is the negative impact ... it goes without saying that using Fiserv is much more expensive to the manual alternative which is very human resource intensive but low cost. But that's to be expected ...we're just trading time for money.
