IBM Systems and Technology Group
Solution Brief
Financial industry
Silverlake Axis Integrated
Banking Solution (SIBS)
Built and optimized on IBM i
Highlights
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Build optimal customer relationships with
multiple touch points throughout the
entire customer lifecycle
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Achieve greater business process
efficiency, transparency and effective
control through total integration of
pertinent data
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Define new products and services rapidly through configurable solution attributes
and parameters
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Ensure data integrity and safety through
comprehensive security features
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Benefit from the mainframe-class
reliability, security, availability,
performance and scalability offered by the
IBM i platform
Today’s economic climate and competitive business landscape give rise
to the need for financial institutions to quickly address various
challenges and opportunities driven primarily by market forces such as
customer choices, compliance requirements, need for cost efficiency,
business consolidations, and competition.
Silverlake Axis Integrated Banking Solution (SIBS) is a comprehensive,
yet flexible and scalable solution designed to assist financial institutions
respond rapidly and innovatively to these challenges in a cost-effective
manner.
It is completely business-driven and designed to support multiple
institutions, branches and currencies. It provides the capabilities to
meet the needs of each department or branch within an institution, yet
allows for the total integration of all pertinent data so as to facilitate
effective control and informed decisions.
SIBS supports customer centricity for all transactions and provides the
right level of customer interactions and experience throughout the
entire customer lifecycle, which helps towards building optimal
customer relationships. Users are accorded flexibility to quickly define
new products and services through SIBS’ more than 10,000 user
configurable and pre-integrated solution attributes / parameters and
objects.
Its comprehensive information repository can be used for risk
management, data mining, customer analytics, cross selling, customer
care, products development and performance management. Its
advanced set of security features helps financial institutions manage
system access and ensures information confidentiality, and data
integrity.
Built and optimized on the IBM i operating system running on the
IBM® Power® platform, SIBS takes advantage of the strengths of
IBM i and the large scaling capability, flexibility and speed of IBM
Power Systems™.
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Solution Brief
Financial industry
Figure 1: SIBS end-to-end integrated solution
Summary
SIBS provides Silverlake Axis customers with an end-to-end
integrated banking solution that enables banking
transformation through information, operations and
technology innovations. With IBM i running on IBM Power
as the platform of choice, customers can benefit from the
mainframe-class reliability, security, availability, performance
and scalability offered by the platform.
About IBM i
Running SIBS on IBM i with IBM Power Systems allows
companies to focus on business and innovation while
maintaining the exceptional reliability and security that the
financial industry demands. Companies are able to quickly
respond to changing workloads to ensure business continuity
in a dynamic environment with large scaling capability of
IBM i and IBM DB2® for i (formerly known as
DB2 for i5/OS).
IBM i is one of the most secure and stable systems in the
marketplace, with a proven reputation for exceptional business
resiliency. It is an integrated operating environment with a
trusted and cost-effective combination of relational database,
security, web services, networking and storage management
capabilities. IBM i is renowned for its ease-of-use and
powerful systems management features.
DB2 for i is the advanced 64-bit relational database
management system (RDBMS) built into the IBM i operating
system. Through its unique autonomic (self-managing) and
self-tuning features, DB2 for i automates many of the
common database administrator tasks required by other
database management systems.
Financial industry
IBM Power Systems add to the strengths of IBM i. The IBM
POWER7® and IBM POWER7+™ processor-based family
of servers was designed for compute-intensive workloads.
They provide scalability with dynamic resource allocation and
also include reliability, availability and serviceability features.
Such attributes, which together help to avoid unplanned
downtime, are crucial assets for a core banking environment.
It is not surprising that IBM i is a dominant platform in
financial institutions globally.
About Silverlake Axis
Silverlake Axis Ltd (SAL) is a leading provider of digital
economy solutions and services to the banking, insurance,
payment, retail and logistics industries. The SAL Group’s
Silverlake Axis software and services are delivering operational
excellence and enabling business transformations at over 100
organizations across Asia including 40% of the largest banks
in South East Asia.
With years of experience, Silverlake Axis understands the
challenges that financial institutions are facing in meeting the
demands of their customers, in staying ahead of the
competition, in responding to the changing economic climate,
be it locally or within the region. A trusted solutions provider,
Silverlake Axis has a 100% success track record in delivering
end-to-end core banking implementation and enhancement,
backed by strong management and key software development
team.
For more information
To learn more about Silverlake Integrated Banking Solution,
visit: www.silverlakeaxis.com.
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