Credit Union Times Webcasts

How Data Management Increases Efficiency for Credit Unions

Original Broadcast Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Cost: FREE

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Managing a credit union in today’s volatile banking market can be a challenge. On one hand, consumers are turning to credit unions as a result of rampant anti-bank sentiment. On the other hand, smaller credit unions struggle to thrive in a crowded market. Increasingly, credit union executives and managers are turning to empirical data on which to base vital business decisions. But identifying, analyzing and acting on the right data can still be a challenge.

Join this webinar and hear how Cara Gwinn, Manager, Business Systems Solutions, Virginia Credit Union, learned how to harness data generated from daily, high volume reports to drive better business decisions.

Attendees will hear details on how Virginia Credit Union uses the Monarch Report Analytics platform to:

- Access and analyze data trapped in reports from Fidelity, Diebold, Visa and other vendors and systems
- Automate the creation and distribution of daily reports
- Deliver better reports for tax statements, audits and other financial reporting requirements

Featured Speakers:

Cara Gwinn
Manager, Business System Solutions
Virginia Credit Union

Cara Gwinn is the Manager of Business Systems Solutions for the Virginia Credit Union. She has 16 years of experience in Information Systems and Operations at VACU, SunTrust Bank and other organizations. Her background includes business analyst, systems analyst and management work in numerous functional areas. A primary focus in each position has been process efficiency and data management. Her recent activities at VACU include “paperless” workflows, data mash-ups and data/document management projects. Her team manages the credit union’s content management, BI, SharePoint and enterprise reports solutions. She has an engineering degree from Duke University.

Mike Sloger
Solutions Architect
Datawatch

In his role as a Solutions Architect, Mike Sloger helps clients and prospects understand the functionality and value the Monarch Report Analytics platform brings to the table. Mike comes to Datawatch with five years experience in the business intelligence and corporate performance management space. This experience includes roles at IBM working with similar tools from the Cognos segment of IBM. Mike is also a veteran of the software world with a combined total experience of 15 years at various corporate performance management, enterprise resource planning and project management software companies.