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Updating Your Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plans: Part 1 of 2
The widespread appearance of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) planning was predominant during the 1980s and 1990s. The majority of large firms had them written and stored, usually created by consulting companies. These documents were static, mainly used to...
Effective System Modernization: Why and How
In today’s business world, Enterprise Iron is engaged in multiple client conversations about system modernization, and updating of systems to take full advantage of modern technology platforms. What has brought us to this point? Let’s look back at the history of our...
Enterprise Iron and WTax Announce Partnership
Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 – Enterprise Iron Financial Industry Solutions, Inc., an industry-leading provider of business, technology, and workforce solutions that resolve complex challenges and optimize operations, has partnered with WTax, a world leader in...
Reflecting on Nearly 20 Years of Business Change
Enterprise Iron has undergone many changes and growth since our origin, including the industries we serve, how we provide services, and the depth of our capabilities. When EI began, processing in the Financial Services industry was primarily paper-based with limited...
Cybersecurity: Another Responsibility for Retirement Plan Sponsors & Fiduciaries
Cybersecurity is the art of protecting networks, devices, and data from unauthorized access and unlawful use. An integral component of a cybersecurity program involves ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and availability of information. The ability of the U.S. Government,...
The Birth of Agile
The Agile methodology has come a long way since it first peered out at the turn of the century and behaved like a David to the accepted methodology – the mighty Waterfall, the Goliath of methodologies, the benchmark for every technology shop in the IT universe. Walk the...
Next Up: Cycle 3 Plan Restatements
Qualified retirement plans are required to operate per the plan document. Most retirement plans use a pre-approved plan document. The IRS requires that all pre-approved “volume submitter” qualified retirement plans be amended and restated to comply with Federal laws...
Agile Project Tools: Focus on JIRA
When I first started running projects utilizing an Agile methodology, the projects were fairly simple and straightforward. Many of them used Agile to prove that this methodology could work. These projects were relatively easy to manage without sophisticated tools, and...
To PEP or not to PEP… that is the Question?
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act amended the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to establish a new type of Multiple Employer Plan (MEP). Now, Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) have the potential to...
The New Challenges of Operating a Retirement Plan
Operating a retirement plan in 2021 is a complex and time-consuming endeavor. Effective administration of the plan requires experience and expertise in numerous disciplines including accounting, finance, operations, compliance, and investment performance, among others....
Moving from a Waterfall to an Iterative Based Methodology: Agile, A Primer
About fifteen years ago, I remember a Client at a large Financial Services firm calling me into her office late on a Friday afternoon and handing me a book on Extreme Programming. She asked me to read the book over the weekend and tell her on Monday if I could lead a new...
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