Case Study: a $55B asset manager achieves $4.6M in savings and a repeatable vendor assessment framework with North Highland

a $55B asset manager saves $4.6M with North Highland

A $55 billion asset manager faced the challenge of selecting three critical platforms—a central trading platform, a security master, and a data catalog—simultaneously without a consistent framework to evaluate vendors. The client needed an objective process to prevent opinion and politics from shaping these high-stakes decisions. They engaged North Highland to provide a structured vendor assessment framework.

North Highland implemented a dual-workstream approach, running technical and commercial evaluations in parallel for all three platforms. This solution delivered $4.6 million in negotiated savings, defensible recommendations, and a repeatable assessment framework that the firm now owns and can apply to future vendor selections.

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