IBS Journal June 2015
Run Simple
The vendor has been promoting this idea of simplicity since last year when a new motto – ‘Run Simple’ – was introduced. Speaking at the opening of the latest Sapphire event, SAP’s chief executive, Bill McDer- mott, stated that ‘simple is the answer when the going gets tough’. In the banking space, a number of initiatives have been introduced to achieve this. There is a set implementation methodology, such as the Sprint (SAP Banking Reference Architecture and INTegrated IP) approach and One Touch Banking Toolbox. The latter is akin to a sandpit environment that can be deployed in two days for the full core and analytics, with built-in scenarios, says Rieker. ‘It is perfect for proof-of-concept exercises’. Much progress has been done with BIAN, of which SAP is a founding member. Its principles are incorporated into SAP’s products and methodologies. BIAN has recently unveiled Service Landscape 4.0, the completed global standardised IT architecture for banks, touted as a worldwide standard for core banking technology (see front page).
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Major projects and upgrades ANZ
with SAP’s Omnichannel Digital Platform
360). The bank is rolling out a new mobile platform across its non-domestic opera- tions in Asia, covering retail, commercial and SME businesses. At the back-end, ANZ uses Infosys’ Finacle in these locations. Mexico-based Compartamos, SAP’s -
brought to market at the end of last year and is a major revamp of the Sybase solu- tions. The three main components that comprised the Sybase 360 solution (inter- net, mobile wallet and mobile payments)
Rieker. Compartamos will implement the latest version of the system, which was
last 18 months, says Andy Mikesell, bank- ing solution manager at SAP (and ex- Sybase). They are now based on one plat- form, rather than being brought together by a common middleware layer, as was the case in the past, he says. Compartamos is a broad taker of SAP’s software: it has already implemented the Loans Manage- ment component of SAP for Banking, the
CRM software and the payments engine (all are now live). The bank is now moving into deposit taking (previously, it was a pure- play lender) and is implementing Deposits Management. ING
software for its cash management oper-
using the agile scrum methodology, com- ments Rieker. The banking group is going through a major standardisation initiative, moving from a decentralised, country-led mod- el into a centralised bank that looks and behaves the same everywhere in the world. It is known as the ‘One Bank’ project, and involves an array of technology ventures, including bringing its commercial lending operations onto Misys’ LoanIQ. Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
(SAMA) is working with SAP to automate the ERP and BI functionality (Business Objects), and is also interested in Bank
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the vendor. The core banking software automation is penned for the next phase of the project. SAMA took a range of SAP’s banking software components in Q2 last year, namely Deposits Management, Loans Management, treasury and collateral man- agement solutions. The project with SAMA is hoped to unlock the banking market of Saudi Arabia, which has eluded SAP so far. ‘We are moving more into the central banking sector,’ Rieker comments. ‘We see
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