Commerce started with the early civilizations. Through the course of history, those civilizations that managed commercial relations successfully, could give prosperity to their people, and also lasted longer. Security of critical trade roads and passages, convenience of natural harbors, code of law and reign of peace have always been the most important factors in the art of managing commercial relations. Although several thousand years passed since the advent of commercial activities, keys to successful management still didn't change.

This is most notable in the transportation of valuables of all kinds including the money itself. The code of Hammurabi, created as early as in 1760 B.C in ancient Babylonia, dealt with trade extensively including the security measures.

The Babylonian law was the first in history that regulated trade of valuables; it even extended a "liability cover" to merchants by exempting them of their responsibilities in case of a robbery. As our societies evolved and business became an art of sophistication, so did the necessity of transporting valuables and money, and a whole industry of CiT (Cash-in-Transit) came to develop.

CiT industry of Turkey is one of the fastest expanding among the emerging economies. Recent introduction of the new currency, abandonment of inflationist growth policies, highly competitive business environment, and introduction of a new legal framework that regulates security services market have all been boosting factors for the national CiT industry. Banks, financial corporations, and large retail operators that traditionally ran their CiT operations in-house, are nowadays looking for more cost-conscious solutions, and independent CiT service companies develop fast both in size and sophistication.

Today, efficiency has become the answer to both security and cost concerns in CiT industry.

Managing cash center activities at both ends of the CiT and valuable cargo transport chains, monitoring of field operations in real-time, forecasting and optimizing of cash stocks at every level are some of the tasks that require a sophisticated management solution such as Maestro.

High implementation costs, aged and inflexible designs of the competing products in the global CiT industry makes Maestro best option for cost-conscious banks and CiT operators.

Solice Technologies, with years of expertise and insight in design and development of operational systems, presents Maestro suite not only as an end2end CiT and Cash Management solution, but also as a suite of innovative ideas and a business process system that can be implemented in a tailor-made fashion depending on the requirements of the customers.

Maestro is a state-of-the-art new product that is developed by a team who understands service level and quality issues very well. It comes with Business Intelligence and B2B modules, which we believe, will revolutionize established business performance paradigms not only in Turkish market, but also in the global CiT industry.

Bülent Göven
Director, BI Solutions