Operations experience
Updated: November 12, 2004
Financial institutions today have no choice but to do more with fewer resources. The need to support outdated technology across a distributed branch environment while trying to reduce costs is a headache for most banking IT departments. To ensure a superior employee and customer experience, banks need to:
| • | Easily and flexibly integrate with multiple systems to rapidly implement innovative ideas and build solutions that fit into your current infrastructure. |
| • | Reduce expensive forms management. |
| • | Compress the time it takes to train new employees. |
| • | Effectively manage branch workers—within both the single branch and region. |
| • | Reduce total cost of ownership of technology. |
| • | Offer choice. Microsoft has partnered with the industry’s leading technology providers, which means you can select a solution that’s right for your business. |
The Microsoft platform simplifies IT infrastructure and processes, and reduces the costs and headaches of managing multiple technology platforms. Having to rip and replace systems every time the market evolves does not make sense. Microsoft software easily integrates with banks’ existing systems and generates new value from them, instead of replacing them. Rapid development, short implementation, and familiar user interfaces mean quicker deployment of branch infrastructure.
At Microsoft, we are committed to helping customers realize their potential through an integrated IT platform—from servers to desktop applications to mobile devices—that provides a powerful, yet affordable, computing environment, optimized for simplicity, customer choice, and productivity.
Operations experience: Wells Fargo, Inventure, and NSBS
Wells Fargo Saves $350,000, Speeds Development 25 Percent
“MIIS 2003 is... ensuring that the right information and program access goes to the right people.” –Suzette I. Statz, Systems Architect, Corporate Authentication Services Team, Wells Fargo.
Inventure Cuts Costs, Ignites Productivity
“We were able to buy just a few new servers and reduced our hardware spending by more than 80 percent. Any way you look at it, not buying 50 new servers is an immediate cost savings and significantly reduces our overall hardware spend.” –Rowena Liang, CEO, Inventure Solutions.
New Serbian Bank Goes from Blueprint to Launch in Three Weeks
"We could not have afforded to waste a single day. Our business plan was quite clear–planning one week, implementation two weeks. We'd seen Microsoft presentations in Belgrade and Hanover. However, there was some pressure from consultants not to go with it. Microsoft was my choice from the beginning and I have never doubted that it was the right decision." –Mladen Jevtic, Executive Director of IT, NSBS.
