Faced with an unprecedented financial crisis and a drastic reduction in their profit margins, the industrialization of business processes allows banks to defend their result by reducing their operating costs. As part of their development strategies on the domestic market or abroad, the industrial design is more than ever a real growth area. .

Within the same company, this type of project can be generalized to all sectors of banking and includes any activity that could be rationalized either by standardizing processes and practices, either by standardizing tools or by a combination of both technical and organizational approaches. Beyond the traditional approach of pooling the activities of production of the same business sector (eg, creation of a central check processing in network support), decoupling of platforms is now operated in an approach SOA (Service Oriented Architecture ) to allow a move towards the model distributor / producer (out of the organization in silos and sharing of cross-treatment).

Some general trends emerge, however. The success of these projects is determined by a mobilization and a strong sponsorship from corporate management and anticipate the actions of change management at all levels (divisions, social partners, employees, etc.).

This offers data warehousing, high availability is now offered commercially by Sun, with all the hardware and software installed, configured and ready to use. This saves time, contributing to the rapid deployment of this application represents an additional advantage, as well as support for an architecture by a couple of actors known for their expertise. Limiting the risk insurance for the IT manager who will then have a single point of contact for hardware and software, without the possibility of passing the buck. A too common scenario.

Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun is positioning itself to respond to requests for data warehouse up to 10 terabytes of data, a good part of this market. However, the two partners have already announced they planned validation platforms more ambitious, including the use of modular architectures in the form of blocks.

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