ONE Automation platform manages all internal processes.

REGION: Europe
INDUSTRY: Banking
SOLUTION: Workload
Automation
ONE Automation platform
manages all internal
processes.
• Staff freed up to focus on higher value business critical tasks
• Applications now communicate seamlessly to achieve total business integration
• Increased reliability and performance for cross-
platform data processing
Société Générale Bank & Trust (SGBT), a subsidiary of the Société Générale Group, is one of the top
banks in Luxembourg, and is ranked eighth among
the world’s most important financial centers.
The Challenge
Efficient technology is key to a bank’s global
competitive strategy. SGBT, one of the largest banks
in Luxembourg, found itself continually adapting its
IT systems to meet the constantly changing demands
on the bank’s internal business processes.
The bank’s mainframe, a Siemens BS2000, was the
core of its business operations. Over the years, the
mainframe had been upgraded with new software
products and open systems connectivity – making it
increasingly difficult to manually control and monitor
SGBT’s internal production processes.
By mid-2002, SGBT began looking for a
platform- independent scheduler that could automatically manage and centrally control the bank’s many
internal systems. The new solution had to integrate
the mainframe, some 20 Unix midrange systems, and
more than 40 Windows (Intel) servers into a single,
consistent IT infrastructure.
Concerned about the bank’s dependence on a few
specialists to manage hundreds of jobs, SGBT wanted
the new solution to automate internal business
processes (both time and event dependent), and
minimize manual interventions. The solution also
needed to be easy to use, with simple reporting
and process documentation capabilities. Finally, to
support SGBT’s existing IT environment, the solution
had to seamlessly integrate externally purchased
commercial applications, many of which had poorly
documented APIs.
With ONE Automation,
applications now
communicate seamlessly
to achieve total business
integration.
The Solution
After a request for proposals (RFP) from leading
workload automation vendors and a series of proofof-concept trials, SGBT selected the ONE Automation
platform from Automic. The company’s reputation
as the leading provider of business automation, as
well as Automic’s flexibility and open design, proved
to be the winning factors. SGBT also praised ONE
Automation’s unique feature combination of its user
interface and powerful script language – providing
“After evaluating the top workload automation solutions on the market, we decided on Automic. What
convinced us most was the solution’s unmatched flexibility and openness, as well as its powerful technical
and functional capabilities.”
Luc Dosquet, SGBT
ease of use when managing complex workflows while
delivering the flexibility needed to automate the most
complex tasks.
Once the underlying conceptual work was complete,
SGBT transferred all open systems to the ONE
Automation platform. The mainframe soon followed
suit. By early 2003, ONE Automation was handling
the bank’s internal processes, from basic file transfers between different systems to centralized system
backups. Soon ONE Automation’s scope was further
extended to include the control of all external
applications as well.
The Results
With ONE Automation, SGBT was able to automate
all of the regularly recurring bank tasks to some 1,500
jobs, with approximately 1,000 jobs running on a daily
basis.
A key advantage for SGBT was the fact that ONE
Automation checks the availability of necessary
files before executing a task – avoiding poorly
timed or ineffective job starts, and ensuring that all
systems and dependencies involved are perfectly
synchronized.
ONE Automation’s extensive documentation and
reporting features are also an instrumental part of the
platform’s success. Each job run is fully documented
in ONE Automation. Additionally, ONE Automation
accelerates all processes, and operational efficiency has been dramatically improved. A job run no
longer depends on rigid, pre-defined timetables, but
responds in real time to events as they occur, saving
considerable time while fully maximizing both human
and technical resources. As a result, SGBT has been
able to free up operations staff, who can now focus
on ensuring top quality service and reliability.
Job scheduling with ONE Automation has been
extremely beneficial to SGBT, supporting the
seamless management of all business-critical data
processing and enabling true event based automation, enterprise-wide. All applications communicate
seamlessly via ONE Automation to achieve total
business integration.
SGBT has been
able to free up
operations staff,
who can now
focus on ensuring
top quality
service and
reliability.
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