Cascade Suite™A transparent and flexible waterfall engine |
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Cascade Suite™ allows private equity administrators and fund managers to automate their waterfall calculation processes and scenario forecasting capabilities. The benefits of Cascade Suite™ include:
Waterfall design and forecasting
- Intuitive flowchart-based waterfall definition tool empowers non-technical business users to design and maintain waterfall calculations
- Fund forecasting module projects future performance based on hypothetical investment sales, rate curves, and other user-defined inputs
- “Audit View” functionality provides a transparent method of tracking and reporting waterfall calculations at the partner and investment levels
- Business logic library allows calculations to be leveraged across the entire fund platform to improve efficiency and scalability
- Drag and drop copy functionality to set up new funds reduces implementation time
- Workflow automation allows processing to run unattended
Robust system integration, reporting, and security
- Direct interface with the system of record facilitates import and export of data, including support for data refresh and on-demand processing
- A common relational database repository centralizes data across multiple funds and clients
- Flexible reporting tools accommodate various business intelligence needs from in-depth analysis of a single fund to top-level surveillance of the entire platform
- User-defined, role-based security provides organizational flexibility, separation of duties, and confidentiality control
- “Four-eyes” approval process allows changes to any business rule, fund structure, calculation, or report to be reviewed and approved
- Audit logs track historical changes to waterfall calculations, data inputs, user access, and database structure
- Waterfall results can be analyzed using standard reports and queries
- Automated export of waterfall results to other applications
Advanced technology platform
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on Microsoft’s .NET platform
- An advanced user interface based on user-defined metadata, utilizing our proprietary application framework
- A single relational database, using any ODBC compliant database platform, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle
- Robust security features, including native support for various user authentication schemes such as Active Directory, Windows Integrated, and Basic/Digest
- Support for load-balanced and failover-standby server configurations for quick disaster recovery
- Integrated, configurable archiving of historic data to support large data volumes
For more information about this product, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact:
Mark Scherer
Principal
Deloitte & Touche LLP
+1 212 436 2842
mscherer@deloitte.com
Les Craig
Senior Manager
Deloitte & Touche LLP
+1 212 436 3539
lecraig@deloitte.com
John Will
Senior Manager
Deloitte & Touche LLP
+1 212 436 2996
jwill@deloitte.com
Chris Pruszko
Senior Manager
Deloitte & Touche Overseas Projects LLC
+44 20 7303 7145
cpruszko@deloitte.com
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