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Wholesale Branch of South Africa's Largest Bank Moves Successfully From Homegrown Appraisal System to Halogen
Standard Bank Group is a global bank with African roots. The Bank wanted the new solution to mirror the format of the old performance appraisal process, which included past objectives and its own set of competencies. Even though the system was new, the Bank wanted the form to look very...
Tags: Bank, Appraisal, Halogen Software Inc., Standard Bank Group, Financial Services
Case studies 2007-12-01

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Case Study: Standard Life Bank
Standard Life Bank SLB is the wholly owned, retail financial services subsidiary of The Standard Life Group. The incumbent IT system at SLB was inflexible and data-driven. SLB's goals, it was clear, could only be achieved by implementing a more flexible, adaptive platform for SLB staff to work with. Consequently,...
Tags: Bank, Business Process, BPM, Standard Life Bank, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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Logos Case Study: Zivnostenska Bank
Zivnostenska bank is the oldest Czech bank operating in the country, and it was the first bank in Central and Eastern Europe privatized by means of foreign capital. The outsourcing project provided Zivnostenska bank with a fully professional team of experts who can be flexibly changed depending on the current...
Tags: Bank, Zivnostenska Bank, Financial Services
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Novell Case Study: Metropolitan Bank Group
Metropolitan Bank Group consists of ten banks with more than 85 branches and over 100 automated teller machines. Rapid growth through acquisitions was taxing a small IT staff and a disparate infrastructure was contributing to rising IT costs. Metropolitan Bank Group reduced server costs by 60 percent with Novell Open...
Tags: Bank, Novell Inc., Information Technology, Metropolitan Bank Group, Strategy, Financial Services, Servers, Management, Hardware
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Bank Expects to Improve Security and Manageability With New Operating System
The Standard Bank Group staff grows by an average of 20 percent annually, partly from acquisitions. Although great for business, those acquisitions have resulted in a decentralized, less consistent IT infrastructure. To create a centrally managed IT environment, the bank plans to gradually move all Windows Server - based services...
Tags: Bank, Security, Acquisition, Microsoft Windows Server, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Corporate Law, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations
Case studies 2008-01-01
Unified e-Banking System in Finland
The second largest retail bank in Finland, OP Bank Group has a long history of inhouse mainframe, Windows, and Unix-based application development. Their vision was to create one view of the bank to their customers and one view from their customers. OP Bank Group would be poised to consolidate its...
Tags: Bank, Electronic Banking, BEA Systems Inc., Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Servers, Software, Hardware
Case studies 2005-12-01
GTnet Case Study: Standard Life Bank
Standard Life Bank SLB is the wholly owned, retail financial services subsidiary of The Standard Life Group. The business requirements were manifold. SLB business staff emphasized their desire to replace the non-intuitive, 'green screen' interfaces with which they had been working with a modern 'universal desktop'. GT-X integrated directly into...
Tags: Bank, Standard Life Bank, Basel II, Financial Services, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
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VP Bank Group Launches Communications System Based on Avaya and NovaLink Solution
One of the largest banks in Liechtenstein, VP Bank Group has more than 600 employees and draws customers from over 60 countries. VP Bank Group needed a system that would fulfill all its requirements in the areas of alarms, evacuation, unified messaging and call reporting. The system also needed to...
Tags: Bank, VP, Avaya Inc., Financial Services
Case studies 2008-01-01
A New Standard in Service for Standard Chartered Bank PLC
In Hong Kong, where Standard Chartered Bank PLC generates approximately one-third of its revenues, the banking environment has changed rapidly in recent years. This has forced financial institutions to become more nimble and creative with customer offerings - or to pay a high price for failing to do so. With...
Tags: Bank, Oracle Corp., Financial Services
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Visible Breakthrough: Alpha Bank Lays the Foundation for a Real-Time Infrastructure
Alpha Bank is the second largest bank in Greece and the biggest privately owned bank in the country. Part of the Alpha Bank Group, its international operations cover Cyprus, London and New York. The company wanted to support a mission-critical banking application while enhancing flexibility and business agility. Alpha Bank...
Tags: Bank, Unisys Corp., SAP R/3, Alpha Bank, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software
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Lloyds Bank Argentina Centralizes Its IT Structure With Citrix Software
Lloyds Bank is part of the Lloyds TSB Group, one of the leading financial services groups worldwide. The challenge was to update and centrally manage all bank software. Not only was the operating system difficult to use, but it was also unable to support many of the applications that bank...
Tags: Bank, Information Technology, Citrix Systems Inc., Lloyds Bank Argentina, Lloyds Bank, Financial Services, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
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Connecting Kiwis With Services
What if a person had to create a new bank? How would he or she quickly bring the bank online with the kind of IT services it takes to support a bank? What would one do to keep the bank competitive and keep it moving forward? Kiwi Bank has been...
Tags: Bank, Financial Services
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HSBC Use eLearning to Improve Understanding of Business Continuity
Until a few years ago, the HSBC Group had recovery plans for their businesses but these had been developed over time in an unstructured manner. The HSBC Group didn't have any standard requirements within the bank which their operating countries could use either raise their own levels of business continuity...
Tags: Siemens AG, Business Continuity, It Services, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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Novell Case Study: ABN AMRO Bank, Capital Markets Group
ABN AMRO Bank, headquartered in Amsterdam, is the 14th largest bank worldwide based on total assets. Supporting the treasury operations of the bank is the Capital Markets Group, located in ABN AMRO's North American headquarters in Chicago. In 1995, they decided to make the transition from Novell NetWare 3.12 to...
Tags: ABN AMRO, Bank, Capital Market, Novell Inc., Financial Services
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Cost Analysis and Benchmark for a Financial Bank
Any idea ? Im asked by my proffesor to analyse the cost of a bank´s IT department.In scope for cost analysis and benchmark is the INVESTMENT FUNCTION APPLICATIONS only. The IT department is responsile for overall 1. Application Maintainance, 2. Application Operations and Infrastucture Operations not in scope.I am only...
Tags: Application, Benchmark, Cost Analysis, financial, Financial Bank, ibidapo2@..., Investment, IT Department, IT-department, networking
Discussion threads 2004-11-20
Expanding Financial Institution Opens Bank Branches 11 Percent Faster
Banco Compartamos Compartamos leads the Mexican and Latin American markets in issuing microloans to entrepreneurs. In June 2006, Compartamos received a bank charter and is developing a new set of policies, procedures, and products to ensure bank regulatory compliance. To help Compartamos in its transition and realize its growth goals,...
Tags: Bank, Financial, Methods & Procedures Group, Financial Services
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Australian Bank Improves File Services and Software Deployment for Its Branch Offices
National Australia Bank NAB Group is a leading financial services organization with operations in multiple countries. Geographic dispersal of its offices has slowed regional application deployment in the Australian division, the bank's largest business group. NAB sought to both simplify deployment and maximize the efficiency of its low-bandwidth wide area...
Tags: Bank, Microsoft Office, National Australia Bank, Australian Bank, National Australia Bank Group, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Software
Case studies 2008-03-01
Success Story: People's Bank
Bridgeport-based People's Bank is one of Connecticut's largest banks. To support its growth and provide the level of service that customers demand, People's Bank relies on its complex and highly regulated IT infrastructure. The bank recognized that they were spending far too much time on manual processes and various other...
Tags: Bank, Financial Services
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Large South African Bank: Basel II
A large South African Bank was challenged to meet the compliance requirements set forth by the Basel II Capital Accord. The bank also needed a consolidated Basel II implementation plan, as well as a solid understanding of the impact of Basel II on its IT architecture and systems. The Accenture...
Tags: Accenture Ltd., Compliance, Basel II, Financial Services
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Gold Bank of Kansas Builds a Skilled, Cost-Effective IT Group
Gold Bank Corporation, Inc. eliminated reliance on a third-party IT service provider by developing an internal IT support group. Microsoft certification helped the bank's IT group work more productively, accelerate the development of IT skills, and deliver high-value services and solutions. Interview data indicate that compared to uncertified IT professionals...
Tags: Bank, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management
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