IBM Case Studies Large Bank in Japan increases re-utilization rate by 18 percent

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Large Bank in Japan increases re-utilization rate by 18 percent

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Middleware & Microservices Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) needed to satisfy customer demand for access to financial services anytime, anywhere, through any device. The bank sought to launch these new services using only its existing IT assets. In today’s banking environment financial institutions compete on the ability to quickly launch products and services and deliver them through new channels. As BTMU developed a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform to realize this “cloud-banking” concept it found that long-term effective use of existing business systems and information was essential. The bank's biggest priority was to ensure zero impact on existing systems. Read More
About Customer	The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) is Japan’s largest bank in terms of assets, with 40 million personal bank accounts and 500,000 corporate clients. The company delivers financial services in over 40 countries. In today’s banking environment financial institutions compete on the ability to quickly launch products and services and deliver them through new channels. Banking customers want freedom to execute a full range of transactions anywhere, anytime, and on any device. As BTMU developed a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform to realize this “cloud-banking” concept it found that long-term effective use of existing business systems and information was essential. Read More
Solution	The bank adopted IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker, with its MQ-based, high-throughput messaging backbone which has a successful track record in the financial sector. The SOA solution employed the IBM zEnterprise® 196 mainframe as its platform, with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the operating system, divided by IBM logical partitioning. An MQ-based, high throughput messaging backbone was then built using IBM WebSphere Message Broker. The SOA platform also linked BTMU systems with the system for The Bank of Japan, allowing the bank to clear large fund transfer data within the Zengin system, Japanese Banks’ Payment Clearing Network. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Middleware & Microservices

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) needed to satisfy customer demand for access to financial services anytime, anywhere, through any device. The bank sought to launch these new services using only its existing IT assets. In today’s banking environment financial institutions compete on the ability to quickly launch products and services and deliver them through new channels. As BTMU developed a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform to realize this “cloud-banking” concept it found that long-term effective use of existing business systems and information was essential. The bank's biggest priority was to ensure zero impact on existing systems.

About Customer

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) is Japan’s largest bank in terms of assets, with 40 million personal bank accounts and 500,000 corporate clients. The company delivers financial services in over 40 countries. In today’s banking environment financial institutions compete on the ability to quickly launch products and services and deliver them through new channels. Banking customers want freedom to execute a full range of transactions anywhere, anytime, and on any device. As BTMU developed a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform to realize this “cloud-banking” concept it found that long-term effective use of existing business systems and information was essential.

Solution

The bank adopted IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker, with its MQ-based, high-throughput messaging backbone which has a successful track record in the financial sector. The SOA solution employed the IBM zEnterprise® 196 mainframe as its platform, with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the operating system, divided by IBM logical partitioning. An MQ-based, high throughput messaging backbone was then built using IBM WebSphere Message Broker. The SOA platform also linked BTMU systems with the system for The Bank of Japan, allowing the bank to clear large fund transfer data within the Zengin system, Japanese Banks’ Payment Clearing Network.

Impact #1	The bank has accelerated its ability to build services in response to business issues.
Impact #2	The SOA platform is driving administrative reforms and streamlining branch operations.
Impact #3	The bank is considering implementation of an “intelligent ESB” for automatically assigning to ESB environments built on lower cost platforms.

Impact #1

The bank has accelerated its ability to build services in response to business issues.

Impact #2

The SOA platform is driving administrative reforms and streamlining branch operations.

Impact #3

The bank is considering implementation of an “intelligent ESB” for automatically assigning to ESB environments built on lower cost platforms.

Benefit #1	Service re-utilization rate increase of 18 percent.
Benefit #2	Use of the platform has been expanded to 23 systems and over 150 services in two-and-a-half years.

Benefit #1

Service re-utilization rate increase of 18 percent.

Benefit #2

Use of the platform has been expanded to 23 systems and over 150 services in two-and-a-half years.

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Large Bank in Japan increases re-utilization rate by 18 percent

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