IBS Journal March 2016


BNP Paribas Egypt | Key IT Integration Figures # of Branches


# of ATM’s 63 201 # of Employees


# of Applications 35+


Key Applications


Finacle - Core Banking FinnOne Eximbills Calypso BPM


Approach


Phase 1. The bank hired Cedar Manage- ment Consulting as advisors and pro- gramme managers to run the programme across two phases. The first phase, which involved the definition of the programme strategy and plan, focused on:


• Defining key programme elements: Scope, governance,


roles and responsibilities, risk tracking and reporting, escalation matrix, key measurement metrics, entry and exit criteria for milestones.


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Prudent resource planning to formulate a specialised project team. Resources with right skill sets were recruited internally and externally to fill in gaps as per the project’s requirement.


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Team structure: Two core teams were formulated - IT (with largely ENBD Dubai members) and Business (representing different business units from Egypt). Cross- training initiatives to bring both core teams up the learning curve on technology and processes followed at UAE and Egypt.


• Mapping exercise: Detailed mapping of products, services,


operations, processes, segmentation, reporting & regulation for the Egypt entity .


• Gap analysis and feasibility study for the bank’s application and


technology architecture. This was critical to ensure there were no surprises in the integration.


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Target application landscape design, covering external (Egypt specific) interfaces.


Budget: Capacity planning for target technology landscape


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and detailed budgeting for the project.


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Phase 2. Execution included focus across six core areas, which are typical of large technology transformation. The roll-out was adopted using a big bang go-live model. The key elements of the execution of the programme included the following:


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Requirement finalisation: Key business and IT subject matter experts were encouraged to focus beyond current product and servicing needs through workshops; Business case driven decisions for ATM and cards architecture design and introduction of new systems including BPM, Calypso, HRMS.


• Development activities ran in parallel to requirements


gathering, providing sufficient time to design and quality. Investment in multiple environments with focus on re-usability, and retro-fitting customisations from existing cross-country/entity instances.


Infrastructure readiness: Upgrade of network bandwidth and optimisation of traffic to prioritise cross-country transactions, communication, file-sharing, migration. Separate instance created for Egypt for several key core applications to provide added flexibility and focused support.


Data migration: Independent track with a dedicated team from the bank and specialist vendor,


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