For years the industry has been pursuing digitalisation and tackling the various associated hurdles, such as highly manual, nonintegrated business processes, a lack of process and data standards, and limited data transparency and availability. Related standardisation and harmonisation efforts are often complicated by local practices and regulations as well as a heterogenous real estate ecosystem. And finally, a successful change requires buy-in and adoption from stakeholders rightfully concerned about data privacy and cyber security.

To be able to master the diverse challenges, a consistent and holistic approach is required that tackles the problems at the root. We at Swiss Life Asset Managers are building a unique pan-European real estate IT platform across all our European entities – one that covers our end-to-end value chain and has asset, portfolio, fund and transaction management operations at its core. This digital setup is complemented by a customer relationship management tool, ESG, risk and reporting features as well as a data integration platform to manage and monitor the various internal and external data sources while adhering to the latest data security standards.

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