Case Studies: Financial Services

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Server Consolidation

Turkey's Garanti Bank Reduces Mainframe Loads Using SQL Server 2005 Solution

Garanti Bank, one of the largest private banks in Turkey with assets of U.S.$21.7 billion, has earned numerous industry awards for its technological innovations, including being named “Turkey’s Best Internet Bank” for the past five years. To reduce processing loads on its mainframe, Garanti has steadily improved existing internal applications and designed its new applications to run on Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 database software. In 2005, the bank became an early adopter and upgraded to the new SQL Server 2005, running on Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition. Bank management wanted to take advantage of a number of new features in the new system to, among other things, eliminate scheduled offline time for database re-indexing and to gain near real-time reporting. Garanti's testing has shown SQL Server 2005 to be 270 percent faster in transaction processing than SQL Server 2000.