Concerned about growth, financial pressures, and competition, CEOs are making fundamental changes to the business to innovate and differentiate as key ways to keep pace with change and deal with thinning margins. CIOs are making investments in technology initiatives that provide a scalable, reliable, and secure foundation for business innovation. Banks are turning to the IBM System z platform as the base on which to build innovative and differentiated strategies. The new IBM System z10 Enterprise Class mainframe delivers breakthrough performance, extreme efficiency. and low cost through virtualization, unmatched resilience, and quality of service. The newest IBM mainframe provides a highly integrated system optimized as the enterprise backbone of a data center. The System z10 EC enables innovative approaches to meet the business objectives of growth, resilience and efficiency demanded in the banking industry.
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Building a Smart Bank Operating Environment Overview
A day-long briefing, demonstration and planning discussion which showcases a realistic cross section of major application processes at work in a large global retail bank. Proof points across front office, back office, payments and risk and compliance business processes demonstrate how IBM technology is designed to support clients' business requirements, and to provide a clear demonstration of the link between infrastructure and business value, using a set of scenarios representing 24 hours in the life of a bank. This briefing and demonstration is available at the IBM Executive Briefing Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, the IBM FSS Center of Competence in Montpellier, France and the IBM Briefing Center in Beijing, China.
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Wachovia's online banking service supports 4 million users with its SOA solution using IBM IMS, WebSphere and System z technology
"With the IMS Connect solution, users can access all of the client's core business applications–such as its retail banking, customer information, relationship and deposit systems–on the IMS system. Currently, the SOA environment supporting the online banking channel supports more than four million users."
Banco Itaú minimizes fraud exposure with integrated cryptography on IBM System
The IBM Crypto Express2 solution for System z has met all of Banco Itaú's expectations in terms of performance, system simplification, reliability and availability. It also offers considerable scope for expansion and is expected to comfortably support all 12 million smart cards when the rollout is complete.
Resources
- White paper: Managing 21st Century Business and Technology Innovation: Core Banking Transformation with System z (1.01MB)
This white paper explores how the IBM System z mainframe platform helps enable the growth, resilience, and efficiency goals of banks. Emphasis is placed on the recognition that technology, specifically the IBM System z platform, will be a critical element of success.
- Building a smart bank operating environment - IBM Executive Briefing Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (178KB)
A summary document that describes the "building a smart bank operating environment" demonstration and workshop offered in Poughkeepsie, NY.
- Building a smart bank operating environment - FSS IBM Center of Competence, Montpellier, France (132KB)
A summary document that describes the "building a smart bank operating environment" demonstration and workshop offered in Montpellier, France.
- System z and Data Encryption (188KB)
Consultant white paper that describes how increasing privacy regulations and data breaches are driving requirements for an Enterprise Tape Encryption (ETE) architecture and how the security capabilities of System z and tape encryption align with ETE requirements.
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Video introduction to the IBM customer demonstration workshop highlighting how key banking business challenges can be addressed by smarter computing based on zEnterprise System hybrid computing.