NetSol Financial Suite™
NetSol’s offerings include its flagship global solution, NFS™.
A robust suite of four software applications that is an end-to-end solution
for the asset finance industry covering the complete leasing and finance cycle
starting from quotation origination through end of contract transactions, and
including digital channel support with intuitive mobile applications. The four
applications under NFS™ have been designed and developed for a highly
flexible setting and are capable of dealing with multinational, multi-company,
multi-asset, multi-lingual, multi-distributor and multi-manufacturer environments.
Each application is a complete system in itself and can be used independently
to address specific sub-domains of the leasing/financing cycle. When used together,
they fully automate the entire leasing/financing cycle for companies of any
size, including those with multi-billion dollar portfolios.
On October 24, 2013, we announced the introduction and release of NFS Ascent™,
the Company’s next generation platform, offering a technologically advanced
solution for the auto and equipment finance and leasing industry. NFS Ascent’s™
architecture and user interfaces were designed based on the Company’s
collective experience with global Fortune 500 companies over the past 40 years
combined with UX design concepts. The platform’s framework allows auto
captive and asset finance companies to rapidly transform legacy driven technology
into a state-of-the-art IT and business process environment. At the core of
the NFS Ascent™ platform is a lease accounting and contract processing
engine, which allows for an array of interest calculation methods, as well as
robust accounting of multi-billion dollar lease portfolios in compliance with
various regulatory standards. NFS Ascent™, with its distributed and clustered
deployment across parallel application and high volume data servers, enables
finance companies to process voluminous data in a hyper speed environment.
NFS Ascent™ has been developed using the latest tools and technologies
and its n-tier SOA architecture allows the system to greatly improve a myriad
of areas including, but not limited to, scalability, performance, fault tolerance
and security. We believe that the transition from NFS™ to NFS Ascent™
allows:
Improvement in overall productivity throughout the delivery organization:
The features of the integrated Business Process Manager, Workflow Engine
and Business Rule Engine, will provide flexibility to our clients allowing them
to configure certain parts of the application themselves rather than requesting
customization.
The NFS Ascent™ platform and the SOA architecture allow us to develop
portals and mobile applications quickly by utilizing our existing services.
The n-tier architecture allows us to intelligently distribute processing and
eases application maintenance. The loose coupling between various modules and
layers reduces the risk of regression in other parts of the system as a result
of changes made in one part of the system and follows proven and accepted SOA
principles.
Improvement in talent acquisition and retention:
Because NFS Ascent™ has been developed using the latest technologies
and tools available in the market, it is helping us in attracting and retaining
top engineers.
Better customer satisfaction:
As a result of the powerful NFS Ascent™ platform and improvement in
the talent pool, the quality of our deliverables has increased.
NFS™ and NFS Ascent™ have the following as their constituent applications:
Loan Origination System (LOS)
Point of Sale (POS)
POS is a front office processing system for companies in the financial sector.
It provides a quotation system which also incorporates a simulation for all
kinds of financial products using a powerful built-in loan calculator.
Credit Application Processing System (CAP)
CAP provides companies in the financial sector with an environment to handle
the incoming credit applications from dealers, agents, brokers and the direct
sales force. CAP automatically gathers information from different interfaces
like credit rating agencies, evaluation guides, and contract management systems
and gives the applications a score against a user defined point scoring system.
This automated workflow permits the credit team members to make their decisions
more quickly and accurately. CAP is a database independent online system developed
in Microsoft’s .Net framework. It can be run from any computer system
with normal specifications, which is a key benefit for clients.
Contract Management System (CMS)
CMS provides comprehensive business functionality that enables its users to
effectively and smoothly manage and maintain a contract with the most comprehensive
details throughout its life cycle. It provides interfaces with external systems
such as banks and accounting systems. CMS effectively maintains details of all
business partners that do business with the company including, but not limited
to, customers, dealers, debtors, guarantors, insurance companies and banks.
Wholesale Finance System (WFS)
WFS automates and manages the floor plan/bailment activities of dealerships
through a finance company. The design of the system is based on the concept
of one asset/one loan to facilitate asset tracking and costing. The system covers
credit limit, payment of loan, billing and settlement, stock auditing, online
dealer and auditor access, and ultimately the pay-off functions.
Dealer Auditor Access System (DAAS)
DAAS is a web-based solution that can be used in conjunction with WFS or any
third party wholesale finance system. It addresses the needs of dealer, distributor
and auditor access in a wholesale financing arrangement.
Fleet Management System (FMS)
FMS is designed to efficiently handle all fleet management needs. FMS is easily
integrated with CMS and WFS as well as with any third party contract management
system to ensure a single comprehensive system. FMS key features include: a
detailed tracking of information on every driver and vehicle; customizable reports;
periodic reporting on fleet related aspects; internet based access to information;
integration with third party software; and, linkage to GPS for real time tracking.
NFS Mobility
NFS mobility enables a sales force for a finance and leasing company to access
different channels like point of sale, field investigation and auditing as well
as allowing end customers to access their contract details through a self-service
mobile application.
Mobile Account
The powerful mAccount is a self-service mobile solution. It empowers the dealer
with a commanding backend system and allows the customer to setup a secured
account and view information 24/7 to keep track of contract status, reducing
inbound calls for customer queries and improving turnaround time for repayments.
Mobile Point of Sale
The application mPOS is a web and mobile enabled platform featuring a customizable
home screen dashboard along with multiple quotation, application submission,
work queues and detailed reporting to empower dealer networks in making the
right decisions at the right time, in turn optimizing productivity.
Mobile Dealer
Mobile Platform mDealer provides more visibility and control over inventories
– with minimal effort. Dealers can view their use of floor plan facility,
stock status and financial conditions, while entering settlement requests or
relocating assets.
Mobile Auditor
The mAuditor schedules visits, records audit exceptions and tracks assets for
higher levels of transparency, in real time.
Mobile Field Investigator
By using Mobile Field Investigator (mFI), the applicant has access to powerful
features that permit detailed verification on the go. The application features
a reporting dashboard that displays progress stats, action items and latest
notifications, enabling the client to achieve daily goals while tracking performance.
Regional NFS™ Offerings
While NFS Ascent™ is designed to be a truly global solution ready for
customization in any market, the Company has historically provided products
tailored to various markets. As such, we offer the following additional regional
products:
LeasePak
In North America, NetSol Technologies Americas, Inc. (NTA) has and continues
to develop the LeasePak CMS product. LeasePak streamlines the lease management
lifecycle, enabling superior lease and loan portfolio management, flexible financial
products (lease or loan terms) and sophisticated financial analysis and management
to reducing operating costs and improve profits. It is scalable from a basic
offering to a collection of highly specialized add on modules for systems, portfolios
and accrual methods for virtually all sizes and varying complexity of operations.
It is part of the vehicle leasing infrastructure at leading Fortune 500 banks
and manufacturers, as well as for some of the industry’s leading independent
lessors. It handles every aspect of the lease or loan lifecycle, including credit
application origination, credit adjudication, pricing, documentation, booking,
payments, customer service, collections, midterm adjustments, and end-of-term
options and asset disposition. It is also integrated with important partners
in the asset-finance ecosystem, such as Vertex Series O.
LeasePak-SaaS
NTA also offers the LeasePak Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) business
line, which provides high performance with a reduced total cost of ownership.
SaaS offers a proven deployment option whereby customers only require access
to the internet to use the software. With an elastic cloud price, revenue stream
predictability and improved return on investment for customers, management believes
that its SaaS customers will experience the performance, the reliability and
the speed usually associated with a highly scalable private cloud. LeasePak-SaaS
targets small and mid-sized leasing and finance companies.
LeaseSoft
In addition to offering NFS Ascent™ to the Europe market, NTE has some
regional offerings, including:
LeaseSoft – a full lifecycle lease and finance system aimed predominantly
at the UK funder market, including modules to support web portals and an electronic
data interchange manager to facilitate integration between funders and introducers.
LoanSoft – similar to LeaseSoft, but optimized for the consumer loan
market.
Implementation Process
The implementation process can span from three to eighteen months depending
upon the complexity and scope. The implementation process also includes related
software services such as configuration, data migration, training and any other
additional third party interfaces. Even after implementation, customers seek
enhancements and additions to improve their business processes. NetSol charges
these efforts in a man-day rate. Post implementation, NetSol consultants may
remain at the client site to assist the customer in smooth operations. After
this phase, the regular maintenance and support services phase for the implemented
software begins. In addition to the daily rate paid by the customer for each
consultant, the customer also pays for all the transportation related expenses,
boarding of the consultants, and a living allowance. NetSol’s involvement
in all of the above steps is priced to bring value to our customers and increase
our profitability from our interactions.