align business and technology in support of your vision

Great companies are propelled by strategic vision and focused execution. But in order to get there, actions must be put in motion today to ensure that the right resources, technology and components are in place to meet the future needs of products and services.

Competitive Advantage

A successful strategic roadmap accelerates the trip from vision to execution and helps an investor more accurately assess and manage risk along the way. It also allows for:

  • Solutions for Alternative Investors
  • Solutions for Private Equity

What we do

Hipercept works with investors and managers through the entirety of the strategic roadmap process:

  • Identify gaps in technology and resources
  • Development of the roadmap itself
  • Follow up and implementation activities
  • Ensuring business sponsorship so that that the roadmap becomes a living document

The challenge for alternative investors

Companies that manage alternative investment portfolios have a unique need for strategic roadmaps:

Lack of standardized data

Process and data inconsistency across business units or geographical locations is the result of independent platforms, legacy systems and M&A activity.

Complexity of deal structures

Joint ventures. Limited partnerships. Wholly owned subsidiaries, etc. Managing the documentation for business structures used for alternative investments significantly increases complexity and risk.

Accounting challenges

For global firms, accounting solutions must support multiple bases of accounting including GAAP, STAT and IFRS. Further, many firms require full multicurrency support for processing and accounting.

Private Equity solutions

Hipercept is focused on maximizing business value by acting as a bridge from the Deal Team to Investors: establishing strategic plans that cross-leverage technology and meet the key requirements for transparency and profitability.

Private Equity services

  • Mind Mapping interviews to identify gaps in personnel, processes and technology
  • Capabilities assessment against best practices
  • Implications of adapting best practices
  • Targeted recommendations and a scorecard for:
    • Short term or “Quick Wins”
    • Medium term opportunities
    • Longer term opportunities

For use by

  • Deal Teams
  • Investor Relations
  • Fund Administrators
  • Information Technologists
  • Support staff including Human Resources, Finance and Risk

Supporting the complete investment lifecycle

A successful investment strategy will seek to maximize every step of the investment lifecyle while allowing for a more accurate assessment and management of risk along the way.

Stages of the Investment Lifecycle: [1] Define the Product [2] Raise Capital [3] Invest Capital [4] Manage the Investment [5] Dispose of the Investment

The challenge for Private Equity

Hipercept has found the following common themes from working with private equity firms:

Disconnect between growth in funds and supporting infrastructure

Despite expansion in the number of funds, employees, and geographic reach there has not been a parallel expansion in the systems infrastructure to support this growth.

Reliance on undocumented manual processes

Many firms rely heavily on undocumented manual processes. Identification of these processes can often result in “quick wins” by achieving significant operational cost savings with the targeted strategic implementation of key enterprise systems.

End-user frustration

Beyond the basics (Outlook, Word and Excel) users are frustrated with the lack of applications infrastructure to support their day-to-day needs.

Siloed information

Many firms have silos of information in Excel spreadsheets as an alternative to systems which poses an operational risk.