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	A Banking Newcomer Leads the Way from Its Founding to GDPR Superstar with ARIS & Alfabet Software AG

A Banking Newcomer Leads the Way from Its Founding to GDPR Superstar with ARIS & Alfabet

Software AG

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	The bank, founded in 2010, faced several challenges as it grew rapidly to over 1.2 million customers and 55 branches in just a few years. The high barrier to market entry, consumer stickiness, and extraordinary growth were some of the challenges. The bank also lacked a unified process management system and had to deal with looming GDPR regulations and manual documents. As a newcomer in the field, the bank sought to find a balance between well-worn protocols related to process planning, optimization, and efficiency, and the demands of savvy customers for legendary service and great products. The looming deadline for enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in early 2018 only added fuel to the fire. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a bank founded in 2010, which became the first new mainstream bank to go to market in the U.K. in more than 100 years. It has achieved phenomenal growth in a notoriously tricky market, mainly by acquiring customers from its rivals through focusing on the in-branch user experience. Just seven years from its founding, the bank’s 3,000 employees are responsible for assets of more than £16 billion a year. The bank scaled these heights in such a short time by taking a laser-like focus on customer experience, for example, by opening on Sundays, launching its brick-and-mortar locations as retail-like stores rather than staid branches and measuring success based on customer experience. Read More
Solution	In 2017, the bank turned to Software AG's solutions, ARIS and Alfabet. With ARIS, the team mapped processes at an award-winning rate. Starting from manual, dispersed records, the bank mapped more than 280 processes in less than a year—20 percent of which was regulatory. Then, using Alfabet, the bank is set to gain new clarity on its enterprise architecture, giving it the keys to leverage the power of new apps and better services, face regulations like GDPR effectively, and mitigate risks through full lifecycle visibility of its IT capabilities. The combined business and IT transformation capabilities of ARIS and Alfabet have opened the way for exciting new services and applications based on greater data and process transparency, third-party data transfer and accessibility, and enhanced privacy protection and risk reduction. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

The bank, founded in 2010, faced several challenges as it grew rapidly to over 1.2 million customers and 55 branches in just a few years. The high barrier to market entry, consumer stickiness, and extraordinary growth were some of the challenges. The bank also lacked a unified process management system and had to deal with looming GDPR regulations and manual documents. As a newcomer in the field, the bank sought to find a balance between well-worn protocols related to process planning, optimization, and efficiency, and the demands of savvy customers for legendary service and great products. The looming deadline for enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in early 2018 only added fuel to the fire.

About Customer

The customer is a bank founded in 2010, which became the first new mainstream bank to go to market in the U.K. in more than 100 years. It has achieved phenomenal growth in a notoriously tricky market, mainly by acquiring customers from its rivals through focusing on the in-branch user experience. Just seven years from its founding, the bank’s 3,000 employees are responsible for assets of more than £16 billion a year. The bank scaled these heights in such a short time by taking a laser-like focus on customer experience, for example, by opening on Sundays, launching its brick-and-mortar locations as retail-like stores rather than staid branches and measuring success based on customer experience.

Solution

In 2017, the bank turned to Software AG's solutions, ARIS and Alfabet. With ARIS, the team mapped processes at an award-winning rate. Starting from manual, dispersed records, the bank mapped more than 280 processes in less than a year—20 percent of which was regulatory. Then, using Alfabet, the bank is set to gain new clarity on its enterprise architecture, giving it the keys to leverage the power of new apps and better services, face regulations like GDPR effectively, and mitigate risks through full lifecycle visibility of its IT capabilities. The combined business and IT transformation capabilities of ARIS and Alfabet have opened the way for exciting new services and applications based on greater data and process transparency, third-party data transfer and accessibility, and enhanced privacy protection and risk reduction.

Impact #1	Achieved first profitable year in 2017
Impact #2	Unified process management platform
Impact #3	Established a governance paradigm

Impact #1

Achieved first profitable year in 2017

Impact #2

Unified process management platform

Impact #3

Established a governance paradigm

Benefit #1	Mapped more than 280 processes in less than a year
Benefit #2	20 percent of the mapped processes were regulatory
Benefit #3	Achieved ROI on its ARIS investment in less than three months

Benefit #1

Mapped more than 280 processes in less than a year

Benefit #2

20 percent of the mapped processes were regulatory

Benefit #3

Achieved ROI on its ARIS investment in less than three months

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A Banking Newcomer Leads the Way from Its Founding to GDPR Superstar with ARIS & Alfabet

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