Polish Bank

Project

Description:  Dedicated Front and Back Office software as well as maintaining Middleware for the leader of the Polish banking sector.

Key topics:

• The design, construction or expansion of applications:
  • the realization of financial calculations and reporting in accordance with the CRD, EMIR, FATCA, MiFID and NDS regulations,
  • the management of payment, credit and prepaid cards,
  • the integration of mobile payments PeoPay,
  • support for the process of evaluation of employees,
  • aggregation of data from the CRM system and reporting using BIG DATA.
• Migration of the SharePoint platform to dedicated web applications based on ASP.NET.
• The layout and design of methods for migrating IBM WPS to IBM BPM with BPEL data production environment and its implementation.
• Planning and design for a new installation of IBM BPM with the launch of a pilot production process BPMN.
• Maintenance of ESB class solutions: WMB and MQ.
• Management of license costs thanks to the IBM License Metric Tool.

Business goal:

• Adjustment of the Bank’s IT environment to the requirements of European and banking law
• Providing better information about customers of the Bank in order to increase sales of products
• Expansion of the functionalities of systems used by the bank employees allowing the bank to get ahead of the competition
• Ensuring a stable environment for the employees of the bank by stabilizing the Middleware layer
• Control of costs related to the used Middleware platform.

Range (solutions):

• The applications are used by more than 1,000 branch offices of the Bank in Poland, by up to 15 000 people simultaneously.
• In addition, users of selected applications are those of the group of highest executives, working in the headquarters of the Bank.

Challenges:

• Requirements concerning high availability and application performance.
• The pioneering nature of the migration of IBM WPS to IBM BPM.
• Wide range of migration and installation environments within the framework of the Bank’s infrastructure, the implementation of the tasks for the production environment.
• Advanced administration of IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM BPM.
• Conducting performance tests and planning of resource requirements for the Client’s Middleware.
• Analysis of errors, improving performance, monitoring, communication with the support of IBM PMRs, mentoring –developing best practices, standards, and building prototypes. Migration of 2 million documents totaling more than 250 GB.

Evaluation of results:

• “Especially Mr. Piotr [consultant of Consileon] thanks to his knowledge quickly realized all the tasks and supported us with his own ideas and solutions that helped improve the work system. As a result, the system … better and more effectively supports the needs of the Bank.” [translated from Polish]- The directors of the Department of Human Resources Development, Human Resources Division of the bank.

• „The company Consileon is a reliable and trustworthy business partner, implementing services with due diligence.” [translated from Polish] – Managing Director of the Department of Information Systems