IiAS

Empowering Corporate Governance: A Technological Revolution with IiAS

  • App Modernisation
  • Cloud Migration
  • UI/UX

A new revolutionising voting advisory management platform designed with Advanced Technology to
process the data faster and more efficiently

IiAS was looking for a technology partner to enhance their existing systems including the voting management and advisory platform with a fresh look and a modern tech stack to make the platform more appealing, user friendly, and more importantly, process the data faster and more efficiently.

  • Enhanced voting advisory platforms
  • Automated data entry, reducing processing time from 3 days to 1 hour
  • Implemented an in-house MIS dashboard for tracking upcoming meetings
  • Integrated with institutional investors and custodians for daily holdings tracking.

Institutional Investor Advisory Services India Limited (IiAS) is an advisory firm, dedicated to providing participants in the Indian market with independent opinions, research, and data on corporate governance and ESG issues as well as voting recommendations on shareholder resolutions for about 1000+ companies that account for over 95% of market capitalization. IiAS works with over 100+ Institutional investors.

Industry
Finance
Year
2020
Scope of work
Digital Transformation, UI/UX Design, App Modernization, Cloud Deployment
Challenges

Key Development Obstacles
for the Voting management Platform

The main challenge was to develop a robust, scalable web application that facilitates easy access to unbiased insurance information. Another challenge was to create an MVP ASAP and make it scalable from day zero.

Security concerns

IiAS wanted to ensure high-security standards due to the nature of financial and securities data and build trust since IiAS is regulated by SEBI(Securities and Exchange Board of India)

Improve customer experience

IiAS needed a faster and more intuitive user interface that simplifies the research process and voting done by the CIO and Fund managers of different Institutional investors.

Integration with Custodians

We needed to build integrations with custodians of respective institutional investors to manage their holdings and voting output files.

Payment
Integration

IiAS is used to sell the subscription of the platform via offline sales channels. We enabled online payment integration so that users can purchase platform subscriptions or individual reports directly.

Data Synchronization

We needed to sync data from different platforms like MIS, Voting advisory, and voting management platforms in a stateful and error-free manner to avoid duplication and inefficient manual entries

Successfully designing this platform was important in order to develop a robust, scalable web application that facilitates easy access to unbiased insurance information. Thus creating an MVP ASAP and making it scalable from day zero.

Solutions

Pixeldust created a first-of-its-kind voting advisory platform in India

Pixeldust created a suite of products for IiAS Advisory that is being used by CIOs, Managers, Company secretaries, and Corporations for reading research reports, voting on shareholder resolutions, and other regulatory processes

First-of-its-kind Voting advisory platform

We created a modern and user-friendly platform with more than 10 years of voting reports and shareholder resolution data for Institutional investors, Financial Institutions, and Corporates.

Managing the CMS

We incorporated Strapi CMS to empower the team to manage, edit, and publish content for the IiAS advisory website.

IiAS SMART (Stewardship Management and Reporting Terminal) Platform

We developed the platform for investors to manage their holdings, capture their votes on each resolution, and provide the results to custodians along with timely notifications on upcoming meetings, and voting done.

IiAS Brand Website

We designed and built the website for IiAS which captures details about the company, its upcoming events, its products, blog posts, its tweets, and different research reports that the company publishes on corporate governance, ESG framework, all managed via a Content management system(CMS) built by Pixeldust

ESG Data Pipelines

We designed and built automated data pipelines to read, clean, and transform the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting(BRSR) reports published by 1000+ listed companies in India to understand their data across environmental, Social and Governance parameters and score them individually and sector-wise to understand the ESG trends and performance landscape in India.

Cloud Infrastructure Management

We deployed & managed the entire cloud infrastructure for IiAS and even reduced their monthly cloud spends

Results

4 Cutting-Edge Platforms Built in One Year Elevate User Experience and Industry Standards

  • 4 platforms were built within 12 months!

  • Data of 1200+ listed companies and 10+ years of research reports

  • Ready-to-scale product from day zero!

  • Increased time spent, user engagement, and satisfaction levels.

  • Creating a subscription bases SaaS platforms with payment gateway integrations

  • Standardized Integrations with multiple investors and custodians

  • Realtime Data synchronization between downstream data entry systems and end-user voting management systems.

  • Automated ESG data pipeline for capturing data of more than 1000+ companies in few minutes

  • Industry-wide recognition for empowering customers using technology.

This highlights Pixeldust Technologies' role in conceptualising and executing a solution that not only met the unique needs of IIAS but also set a new standard for transparency and user empowerment in the Indian corporate governance market.

Tech framework and tools deployed

  • Python
  • Django
  • Strapi
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Typescript
  • VueJS
  • NodeJS