
Case Study: IMAS
OverviewIMAS is a financial services firm who specialise in selling companies in the financial services sector. There is a high level of transparency with publicly traded companies. This is in stark contrast with unquoted companies. Since 1995 IMAS have been building MaxImas to provide a total view of all UK financial services companies. By being better informed IMAS are able to offer better advice. IMAS objective is to be the leading corporate finance adviser acting for vendors in the sale of unquoted financial services businesses. In the pursuit of this objective, IMAS have developed MaxImas - A Filemaker developed tool that is a bottom up analysis of the UK financial services industry. IMAS staff have personally analysed over 25,000 companies by activity and ownership, the results of which are now stored in MaxImas - developed on Filemaker. In early 2007, after a competitive pitching process, IMAS commissioned Cordis to do a ground up development of MaxImas to move away from their aging Microsoft access solution. After completing the Phase 1 databases and nearing the end of the Phase 1 website, IMAS are considering their aspirations for future development due to commence imminently. Client testimonial"The previous team using MS SQL and Dot Net failed to achieve in 2 years what Cordis did with Filemaker in 6 months."
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