In one particular financial services company, for example, IT experts were brought in to update a client management system.

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Citadel, the Chicago-based hedge fund, sold its sophisticated fund management system, Omnium, to Northern Trust in 2011 and became a client.

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We have also had the good fortune of developing national award programs for such clients as Schwab and American Management System (since acquired), a billion dollar software company, where the client in each situation was the donor and recipients were current or perspective clients.

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