GETIN Bank's Nationwide Expansion Powered by Scalable Intel Architecture
Like many financial institutions in today’s market, GETIN Bank was formed through a complex series of mergers and acquisitions. In 1990, Górno´slaski Bank Gospodarczy (GBG) SA was founded, with a network of ten branches across southern Poland. It grew in 1995 with strategic investment from Powszechny Bank Kredytowy SA and, from 2002 until 2004, functioned within the Capital Group of Bank Przemyslowo-Handlowy. By this time the bank had expanded to operate 40 branches. In May 2004 the bank was acquired by Getin Holding.
The bank’s Information Technology (IT) system was consequently fragmented, inflexible, increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain so the management team launched an ambitious nationwide expansion program supported by a complete IT overhaul. Today the bank is recognised as one of Poland’s top 20 banks and has an impressive € 35 million (US$41.6 million) profit forecast for 2006.
GETIN Bank realised that effective response to industry demands and competition demanded an IT infrastructure to enable the introduction of new products and services through multiple channels and over a wider geographical area. It wanted a centralised system, built on open standards technology to connect all existing and future branches. The solution had to be scalable to support its plans for growth and highly reliable to ensure good customer service.
Measures of Success
• The fast responsiveness of applications running on Intel® Itanium® 2 processor technology has dramatically improved customer service by reducing response and transaction time
• The high performance server platform has significantly reduced end of day processing time, enabling 1 million transactions to be processed in just 25 minutes
• Fast, powerful back end servers support new products and services such as online banking, attracting new customers
GETIN Bank purchased HP 76* series servers powered by Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running HP-UX* and Oracle 9.2* database. The platform supports the DEF 3000* core banking system and electronic banking, training and reporting applications. A cluster of 32-bit Intel® Xeon® processor-powered HP servers supports online banking services for 250 large enterprise customers with plans to support 750 customers by the end of 2006.
The powerful Intel®-based solution unifies all branches, and scales effectively as the company expands. This centralised system speeds businesscritical reporting and allows users companywide, to access a consolidated view of customer interactions quickly and easily. This improved visibility of activities has improved the bank’s ability to respond quickly to market changes and gives a consistently high standard of customer service across all channels.
“The Intel hardware is extremely reliable and stable,” commented Janusz Wojdyla, IT Director, GETIN Bank, “and has run without failure since implementation, which is essential for good customer service”. The high performance has boosted application responsiveness, leading to an increase in employee productivity. The scalability of the Intel-based system will allow additional branches to enjoy these benefits in the future without compromising performance.
“Intel® technology has played a fundamental role in GETIN Bank’s growth strategy, supporting our expansion across Poland, the introduction of new products and acquisition of new customers,” said Wojdyla. “As we grow, we will continue to be a technological leader and to benefit from Intel’s support.”
Return on Investment
• Excellent scalability of Intel® technology means GETIN Bank's IT framework can grow as the company expands
• GETIN Bank expects a 300% increase in users in six months without compromising system performance
• Plans to expand online banking services to retail banking customers on Intel® Xeon® platform demonstrates ability to improve services at reduced cost
• Since implementing Intel® architecture, the bank’s branches have grown from 44 to 119, and are expected to be 150 by 2007
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The bank’s Information Technology (IT) system was consequently fragmented, inflexible, increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain so the management team launched an ambitious nationwide expansion program supported by a complete IT overhaul. Today the bank is recognised as one of Poland’s top 20 banks and has an impressive € 35 million (US$41.6 million) profit forecast for 2006.
GETIN Bank realised that effective response to industry demands and competition demanded an IT infrastructure to enable the introduction of new products and services through multiple channels and over a wider geographical area. It wanted a centralised system, built on open standards technology to connect all existing and future branches. The solution had to be scalable to support its plans for growth and highly reliable to ensure good customer service.
Measures of Success
• The fast responsiveness of applications running on Intel® Itanium® 2 processor technology has dramatically improved customer service by reducing response and transaction time
• The high performance server platform has significantly reduced end of day processing time, enabling 1 million transactions to be processed in just 25 minutes
• Fast, powerful back end servers support new products and services such as online banking, attracting new customers
GETIN Bank purchased HP 76* series servers powered by Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running HP-UX* and Oracle 9.2* database. The platform supports the DEF 3000* core banking system and electronic banking, training and reporting applications. A cluster of 32-bit Intel® Xeon® processor-powered HP servers supports online banking services for 250 large enterprise customers with plans to support 750 customers by the end of 2006.
The powerful Intel®-based solution unifies all branches, and scales effectively as the company expands. This centralised system speeds businesscritical reporting and allows users companywide, to access a consolidated view of customer interactions quickly and easily. This improved visibility of activities has improved the bank’s ability to respond quickly to market changes and gives a consistently high standard of customer service across all channels.
“The Intel hardware is extremely reliable and stable,” commented Janusz Wojdyla, IT Director, GETIN Bank, “and has run without failure since implementation, which is essential for good customer service”. The high performance has boosted application responsiveness, leading to an increase in employee productivity. The scalability of the Intel-based system will allow additional branches to enjoy these benefits in the future without compromising performance.
“Intel® technology has played a fundamental role in GETIN Bank’s growth strategy, supporting our expansion across Poland, the introduction of new products and acquisition of new customers,” said Wojdyla. “As we grow, we will continue to be a technological leader and to benefit from Intel’s support.”
Return on Investment
• Excellent scalability of Intel® technology means GETIN Bank's IT framework can grow as the company expands
• GETIN Bank expects a 300% increase in users in six months without compromising system performance
• Plans to expand online banking services to retail banking customers on Intel® Xeon® platform demonstrates ability to improve services at reduced cost
• Since implementing Intel® architecture, the bank’s branches have grown from 44 to 119, and are expected to be 150 by 2007
Copyright © 2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel. Leap ahead., the Intel. Leap ahead. logo, Itanium, Itanium Inside, Xeon and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
This document is for informational purposes only. INTEL MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS DOCUMENT.
*Other names and brands may be the property of their respective owners.
