Time4Advice migrates CURO to Microsoft’s Azure cloud.

Time4Advice today announced a further development of its strategic relationship with Microsoft.

Time4Advice is one of just a handful of partners, globally, that Microsoft has chosen to work with to expand its strategic footprint in financial services, specifically UK financial advice and wealth management.

In this latest development, Time4Advice has completed the migration of its leading financial planning and wealth management system, CURO, to the Azure cloud platform. It means CURO clients have access to increased benefits, including:

• The ability to scale rapidly to meet increased demand
• World-class data, application, and infrastructure security
• Increased resilience and performance
• Greater ability to adopt future innovations, including AI and automation
• Hosting flexibility, including shared and private hosting options

Mitchell Philpott, Managing Director, Time4Advice, commented: “Macro-technology changes including cloud adoption, data-driven insights, and automation will all have a significant impact on financial planning and wealth management in the years to come. To remain competitive, firms will need to innovate and fully em­brace digital transformation. Microsoft’s Dynamics 365, Azure and Office 365 have become the global standard that enables this change”.

“Inevitably, there will be winners and losers. The winners will be those firms that embrace digital transformation. The losers will be firms that either fail to digitalise or stick with existing Advice technology solutions and therefore will be held back by their suppliers’ inability to digitally transform their businesses”.

About Time4Advice

We’re out to disrupt financial planning and wealth management technology.

For far too long technology providers have failed to deliver the panacea of benefits promised. They’ve talked about providing a joined-up experience across advice, client management, back-office and admin. Yet most advisory firms are still forced to operate within the constraints of using multiple silo systems, with data held in various places

We’re on the side of the advisors. This means we’re changing the game. It’s why we’ve teamed up with Microsoft to create CURO; it’s an advisor technology ecosystem that spans your entire business. It unifies all your data, processes and business applications, and natively integrates with your everyday Office365 apps including, Excel, Word and Outlook.

The result is a digital transformation platform that delivers frictionless omni-channel client experiences, the ability to serve more clients, centralised data, reduced risk and significant operation efficiencies.