ICON is pleased to announce that Leon J. Schwartz has joined the firm as Vice President of Client Relations and Communications. In this newly created position, Mr. Schwartz will be responsible for helping clients save time, money, and effort as they navigate data profiling, classing, conversion and migration projects.

ICON is proud to announce that we are partnering with Perceptive Software.  Perceptive is one of the leading creators of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software products and solutions.   This partnership allows ICON to offer clients a uniquely user-friendly ImageNow document imaging, document management and workflow suite, as well as Perceptive’s LearnMode  integration technology methodology.  Perceptive’s products and solutions are used by customers across all industries in more than 30 countries worldwide.

With quality data as the cornerstone, the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System has successfully deployed their new pension administration system.   IPERS and ICON forged a strong partnership throughout the Data Quality Project resulting in an accurate and reliable data structure for the new system.  

The Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement System has deployed their new pension administration system “on time” and “on budget”.  Employing a well-defined roadmap, starting with a comprehensive data project, LAGERS was able to successfully manage the risk of implementing their new system.

“An early decision was made to bring forward all membership data from the beginning of the system”, said LAGERS Executive Director Keith Hughes.  He added,  “We were able to accomplish this goal using a comprehensive data project designed by ICON, and by starting the cleansing 6 months prior to the replacement project, staff had all membership data in a consistent format to transfer to the new computer system as implementation dates arrived.”

The Wyoming Retirement System has awarded ICON it’s data management services contract as it prepares to implement a new pension administration system.  WRS has made this proactive data management move in order to address any data risk issues that could affect the successful implementation of a new system.  Their decision to address their data up front was based on extensive “lessons learned” research they did when talking to other systems going through similar projects.