Solutions on System z

The need to improve efficiency, reduce risk and grow revenue confronts all firms in banking, financial markets and insurance today. Here are a few ways System z can help financial firms accomplish their goals:

Fast response times: Financial institutions need to provide fast response time to their customers. With the ability to share resources and direct them dynamically and virtually, whenever and wherever they are needed, according to priorities and objectives set by the customer, System z helps enable financial institutions to consolidate and tightly integrate multiple workloads on a single server with centralized systems management to reduce costs.

Centralized customer data: System z provides the strategic, centralized access point for customer and corporate data used for marketing and analytics. Multiple applications running in individual logical partitions on System z access the centralized data repository. This approach provides very high systems availability with attractive total cost of ownership for customer insight solutions.

Security: With its leading-edge security technologies, including high-performance cryptography and supporting middleware, System z enables the efficient processing of large volumes of retail payments transactions, including card management and ATM point-of-sale transactions in a continuously available and resilient environment.

Availability: The availability of Business Continuity and Recovery Services, which leverage System z industry-leading capabilities including GDPS, enable financial institutions to maintain customer service, minimize vulnerability and restore operating conditions if a disaster occurs, capabilities critical in today's environment. Financial institutions are also utilizing System z scale out flexibility with Linux to implement risk management and compliance applications on the mainframe.