OUR SERVICES
Elevate credit union performance
At CU Ally, we have developed a portfolio of services that are purpose-built to meet the needs of Credit Unions. When institutions engage with CU Ally, they have access to an exceptional team of industry practitioners, subject matter experts, research and thought leadership to help serve their mission.
OUR CORE SERVICES
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Digital Ally™
Leverage the power of data and technology to optimize, manage and automate operations, fuel digital growth and create memorable digital experiences to future-proof your business.
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Cyber Ally™
Rapidly and cost effectively assess and improve security capabilities and to understand, measure and manage the risk impact to your institution.
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Talent Ally™
Access IT and Cyber Leadership talent and subject matter expertise to elevate and extend your team and management capabilities.
Digital Ally ™
Digital Member Experience
Provides the data and experience design to help institutions to identify unmet member needs, remove friction and reimagine and digitize end to end processes to create differentiation.
Cloud Enablement & Infrastructure Optimization
Modernize your institutions infrastructure, applications, network, and end-user environments to increase agility, productivity, and efficiency while reducing risk.
IT Capability Assessment & Operating Model Design
Leverages best practices combined with our organizational design expertise to assess your current IT management capabilities and creates a right-sized structure for your institution to organize for growth.
Technology Modernization, Evaluation & Selection
Delivers an unbiased approach to help your institution to identify potential solution providers and make informed technology investments decisions.
Data Delivery, Transformation & Analytics
Unlock the value of your institution’s data and build a competitive advantage by making distinctive, lasting improvements in technology, processes and capabilities.
Program Management Execution
Empowers your institution with the tools, processes, and mindsets to transition to flawlessly execute your critical projects and programs.
Robotics Process Automation
Identify, prioritize and execute opportunities to automate business processes and change the way you work and serve your members.
Cost Optimization & Management
Identify, prioritize and realize opportunities to drive cost take out by leveraging best practices, vendor management, service delivery models and sourcing strategies.
Due Diligence & M&A Planning & Integration
Prepares your institution with buy and sell side due diligence practices and approaches to accelerate potential mergers and acquisitions.
CYBER ALLY ™
Cyber Risk Assessment
Enables organizations to understand and measure cyber risks from the business perspective, by quantifying them in financial terms so that they can be easily communicated to all key business stakeholders.
Policy, Process & Procedure Development & Management
Document and implement priority security policies, processes and procedures using pre-defined templates to accelerate their creation. Eliminate multiple conflicting versions of policies and standards with a single authoritative policy repository powered by Ignyte™.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (“GRC”) Automation
Stay current on the regulations, avoid costly fines, manage ongoing compliance and audit cycles, centralize policy distribution and tracking, identify, respond and monitor and efficiently manage your internal risk third-party vendor risk with our GRC Platform powered by Ignyte™.
SOC Audit Preparation & Readiness
Helps to prepare your organization for a pending SOC 1 ans 2 Audits and understand and prioritize the control objectives and evidence that will be required to maximize your audit efficiency and determine your readiness for the SOC examination.
Cybersecurity Technology Brokering Service
We understand there are thousands of technology vendors out there. Powered by Consortium Networks, we streamline the process by connecting you with leading technology vendors that stand out from the crowd and demonstrate measurable results.
Asset Inventory & Management
Discovers and documents a list of IT assets in scope for your Cybersecurity Program to prioritize risk, track deficiencies and mitigation efforts.
Vulnerability Management
Includes importing data from vulnerability scans to record, analyze and track mitigation efforts.
Vendor Risk Management
Provides tools and capabilities to drive compliance and enable management of third party risk throughout the entire vendor lifecycle.
TALENT ALLY ™
Search Assistance for Permanent and Contract Positions
Flexible Subscription Packages for Fractional Access Individuals and Teams
Transition and Onboarding Assistance for New Leaders
Peer to Peer Roundtables (via the IT Ally Institute)
Supervisory and Board Advisory
OUR UNIQUE APPROACH
At CU Ally, we deliver our services through a unique approach that we call “ELEVATE.”
This approach has three components:
Assess
Includes our proprietary Tech Debt and Tech Equity Assessments to identify areas of improvement including a prioritized roadmap.
Remediate
Includes the remediation of priority areas identified from the Assess phase that leverage our team of experts, tools and thought leadership.
Maintain
Includes the ongoing management of the Elevate Program and continuation of the assess and remediate efforts.
