Digital Banking Consulting for Banks and Credit Unions

Cornerstone Advisors - Core Systems - Conversion and Implementation

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Driving Performance Through Smart Digital Decisions

At Cornerstone, we help you drive measurable value from your digital investments. Our expert team partners with you to deliver end-to-end support across your key digital initiatives—from strategy to execution. Whether you're modernizing legacy platforms, optimizing digital contracts or scaling new technologies, we ensure every step is aligned to your business objectives. With decades of experience and deep industry insights, we help you make smarter digital decisions and turn your technology partnerships into a true competitive advantage.

Digital Transformation Strategy

Many banks and credit unions today do not have a digital transformation strategy but know they need to have one in place to remain relevant in the markets they serve.

Cornerstone helps these financial institutions today by meeting with various teams within the organization to get a good understanding of how things are operating today and what the current channel spend is. We will then work with the executive team to build out a three-year roadmap for execution that includes system enhancements, process and procedure revamp, and potential system replacements if warranted. Additionally, Cornerstone will work to provide peer benchmarking of capabilities and a Return on Channel assessment within the institution.

Digital Banking System Selection

When you’re ready to evaluate digital banking replacement options, trust the most experienced digital banking system consultants to prepare your bank or credit union to be future ready.

Our digital banking subject matter experts will guide you through the entire process including defining your current and future needs, converting your needs into an RFP, helping you interpret the results, managing the product demonstrations and the follow-up questions, leading the vendor due diligence, building out apples to apples vendor pricing models and getting your team to the right decision for your financial institution and finally scoping on the new system to ensure every component of connectivity and configuration is covered in your new vendor contract.

Digital Banking Contract Negotiations

Cornerstone is the most experienced contract negotiator in the industry with more than 1,500 core, digital and other technology contracts negotiated. Our extensive experience and knowledge of the digital vendor ecosystem enables us to negotiate the most favorable contract pricing and terms for new, renewal and replacement contracts.

Our secret weapon is our proprietary Contract Vault™. This AI-driven data engine consists of over 15,000 pricing points collected from negotiating thousands of vendor contracts. Armed with Contract Vault™, our experienced negotiators can confidently negotiate from a position of strength and achieve significant cost savings and add fairness and accountability to the contract.

Digital Banking Implementation 

Cornerstone experts are the most experienced digital banking system conversion and implementation consultants in the industry.

Digital Banking implementations are mission-critical undertakings impacting your end user customers, additionally it will impact most departments, and a majority of line of business'. And while you will pay your digital banking vendor to convert your data and provide introductory training, you are responsible for the entire implementation—product and process design, hardware and network upgrades, testing, balancing, end user customer communication, etc. With our help and proprietary tools, we’ll get you to, and through, a successful Go Live.

Digital Banking Optimization

Most financial institutions are not seeing the full benefit from their existing digital banking solution. We combine digital banking system expertise as well as business and technology process best practices to help clients optimize the value from their existing digital banking system without the need for a conversion.

We dig into your current issues, compare your use of your system to our best practices and then review your configurations, forms, workflow, IT operations, etc. to identify improvement opportunities. We then help get those improvements executed.

Digital Banking Briefing

When your team just wants to understand today’s digital banking system vendor landscape or wants to get Cornerstone’s opinion on your existing digital banking vendor’s direction and roadmap, a Cornerstone briefing can be helpful.

In an interactive session, we share candid insights across the entire vendor market and then go deeper on your current vendor and a few vendors you would likely consider for replacement.

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Jim Burson

Partner

Jim Burson brings to his role as partner at Cornerstone Advisors a deep knowledge of the financial services industry as well as a wide range of executive management.

Chris Miller

Senior Director

Chris Miller is a digital innovation executive skilled in the art of translating data-driven insights into actionable strategies that drive organizational growth.

Josh Davis

Director

Josh Davis has been providing banks and credit unions with digital expertise across strategy, operations, and technology channels for more than two decades.

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