Standard Chartered is one of the world’s most international banks, employing over 40,000 people, representing 80 nationalities, across its network. Standard Chartered operates in over 1,200 locations (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) in more than 50 countries in the Asia Pacific Region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom and the Americas.
“This is a long term partnership that will leverage the latest technology to deliver significant cost and capability benefits to the Bank.”
Peter Sands, Finance Director of Standard Chartered Bank
Business Challenges
- Greater exploitation of IT for the business across Asia Pacific
- Obtain an improved total cost of ownership for IT operations
- Raise the quality of the services to its customers
- Improve the resilience of the services
- Support the future growth plans of the business
- Achieve the above transformation with minimum risk
Solution
- Consolidation of infrastructure into 2 new Tier 1 data centers
- Technology refresh across mainframe, midrange and storage
- Deployment of Atos Origin CSDM service delivery model
- Deployment of Atos Origin GEMS management tooling
- Integration with the bank’s own IT service centers
Benefits
- 50% cost reduction for mainframe operations
- 30% cost reduction for midrange operations
- High resilience and DR capability across all production systems
- Higher performance targets within service level agreements
- No single points of failure within supported infrastructure
- A 7 year outsourcing contract worth around 200m USD
- Scalable pricing giving greater economy as the business grows
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