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S&T Ukraine upgrades IT for The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine

The relaunch at the leading Ukrainian financial institute was a complex effort with a number of demanding requirements. Above all, the solution had to be designed for evolutionary growth. The high-performance S&T application thus provides The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine with clustered IT functionalities that will allow the financial institute to maintain service levels as it grows over the next five years. “We are talking not about the launch of just a computer system, we are talking about the successful implementation of a system solution that enabled migration to a new, more powerful, more reliable technological platform,” said Sergei Tsokol, member of the board at The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine. “Through this project, we have also created new capacity to meet our mid-term needs.”

Reducing complexity, improving performance

The new cluster system is an integrated complex of hardware and software designed to handle all of the client’s internal and external IT processes. By offering a consolidated infrastructure, it reduces the number of technical processes required for the same IT outcomes, thereby shortening system reaction times. Equally important, more customers can now be served and more services provided without system overload. “Reliability” is also the watchword behind another critical feature: the system’s extensive back up and redundancy capabilities. Designed to meet today’s disaster-proof levels of dependability, the S&T Ukraine solution allows The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine to operate with greater security in the global IT network.

Mission accomplished for a major player

The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine is a key financial services player in Ukraine, and its new system is designed to help more than 700 corporate users carry out all necessary transactions. With an aggregated data transfer speed of 4 Gbps and 3 servers, including a 2-node Oracle RAC, the IT architecture provides the bank with a complete range of future-ready capabilities. In addition to the extensive technical specifications, The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine required that its ongoing operations continue uninterrupted during the project’s design, development and implementation phases. In addition, the upgrade had to preserve existing software and technical processes. Such technologically complex undertakings require a high degree of trust – something the two partner enterprises have developed over time. “We have a long and successful record of cooperation with The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine,” said S&T CEO Christian Rosner, “and some of our most prominent projects have been implemented for them.”

Uninterrupted operations

Ukraine’s state-owned import-export bank, The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine has a corporate network that services its headquarters, 30 branch offices and 91 regional offices throughout the country. It also boasts the largest network of correspondent banks in Ukraine, with a total of 850 partner institutions around the globe. “We are very pleased that one of Ukraine’s largest financial service organizations has entrusted us yet again with such an important task – upgrading its infrastructure while guaranteeing uninterrupted operations,” Rosner said. “Even more, we’re pleased to have completed the task smoothly and successfully.”

One of the winning bidders in a World Bank tender, S&T Ukraine implemented its first disaster-proof solution for The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine in 2001. Following years of use, the current upgrade reflects The State Export – Import Bank of Ukraine’s expanded IT needs in light of its recently adopted growth strategy. The comprehensive system meets those needs by bringing together a number of leading market components, including server solutions and storage from Sun Microsystems (Sun Fire V490, Sun StorageTek 6140), network hardware from Brocade, Sun Cluster software from Sun Microsystems, Oracle RAC and Veritas NetBackup.