Intesa Sanpaolo innovates banking with new services supported by advanced technology

Intesa Sanpaolo is the banking group formed The created a roadmap to move Intesa Sanpaolo: by the merger of and Sanpaolo away from its old banking model—a Size: More than 93,000 employees IMI bringing together two major Italian proprietary UNIX environment—to converged with shared values to increase their infrastructure and open systems. The Industry: Financial services opportunities for growth, enhance service new platform needed the performance Location: , for retail customers, significantly support and simplicity to respond to new market the development of and make demands as well as cost and regulatory an important contribution to the country’s pressures. The solution also had to be Solutions growth. Intesa Sanpaolo has focused on scalable, because the bank is constantly • Flexible infrastructure expands opportunities for profitable growth through adding new services. quickly to support new services continuously evolving online services. And that means developing a new banking model Intesa Sanpaolo collaborated with Cisco for • Virtualized environment reduces to reduce infrastructure costs and improve a simplified platform that supports innovation costs, power, and footprint while time to market for new applications. and growth by delivering new application increasing performance environments in minutes and at far lower cost. • New cloud, analytics, and big data Challenge: Growth Through New Services The role of technology in financial services Embracing New Speeds services drive growth ® is changing. Banks that are able to bring With Cisco UCS servers and Cisco new services to market quickly capture the management tools, the Intesa Sanpaolo most market share. Intesa Sanpaolo wanted IT team can manage the complete to be the face of new banking in , infrastructure lifecycle from a single pane so it began looking at ways that it could use of glass. Automated provisioning delivers technologies such as cloud, big data, and virtual machines quickly and consistently. predictive analytics to drive new services. With the platform’s simple and fast management, Intesa Sanpaolo doubled the “For new innovations to succeed, first you size of its virtual environment and delivered need a strong foundation to build upon,” a new Internet banking platform. For More Information says Nicola Carotti, Intesa Sanpaolo Group For more information about Cisco Services. “We had to reduce the cost and “We view Cisco as a key partner, and Cisco UCS solutions, visit http://www. complexity of our environment and create a UCS is a wonderful platform for innovation,” cisco.com/go/ucs platform that would support our transition to says Carotti. “We can embrace the future of a client-centric software architecture.” banking and adapt to the new normal as the speed of industry change increases.” Intesa Sanpaolo Financial Services

With Cisco UCS technology, Better Performance, Lower Costs to use big data to be more proactive to the Intesa Sanpaolo: The bank’s most critical applications, including needs of the business and fuel its customer- CRM, payment, and risk management and centric vision. Cisco UCS delivers a robust, business intelligence systems, now run on cost-effective platform for big data initiatives Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) that enable the organization to be predictive for improved performance and scalability. rather than reactive in its approach to IT and the business at large. “Cisco UCS is more reliable than our previous environment,” says Carotti. “It’s Faster Compliance also more cost-effective. By consolidating With risk analysis applications running on onto powerful, virtualized Cisco UCS servers, Cisco UCS, Intesa Sanpaolo can quickly Speeds time to market from and easily provide insight and reporting weeks to minutes we reduced software license costs while reducing power consumption by 30 percent for the , reducing risk and and hardware footprint by 80 percent.” streamlining compliance.

Secure IT as a Service What’s Next? Using Cisco Intercloud Fabric, Intesa Intesa Sanpaolo is conducting a proof Sanpaolo is adopting a secure and of concept with Cisco UCS for cognitive effective hybrid cloud strategy so that computing—simulating human thought it can offer customers highly secure processes to predict future infrastructure connectivity across multiple clouds. needs. Improves performance for CRM, payment, and business “We’ve moved into a new era in which intelligence applications “We’re creating an integration hub to allow the business to securely use public cloud business innovation is no longer held back resources where appropriate,” says Carotti. by infrastructure,” says Carotti. “Without “Again, Cisco is giving us flexibility while Cisco, we would not be able to deliver the reducing costs.” same level of service or meet the pace of innovation that the business demands. Harnessing the Power of Big Data We’re staying ahead of the curve.” Intesa Sanpaolo recognized the opportunity

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