Micro Focus Visual COBOL delivers a future-proof infrastructure for SNS Bank

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Visual COBOL delivers a future-proof infrastructure for SNS Bank

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How modernization made the difference for SNS Bank

Significantly reduced business risk

Improved developer productivity

Future-proof IT infrastructure

Single, consolidated development environment

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About SNS BankINDUSTRY: Financial Services

CORE APPLICATIONS: Banking application for all financial transactions

COUNTRY: The Netherlands

Founded in 1817, SNS Bank is a top

four bank in The Netherlands and

holds €70 billion in assets.

The bank is part of the SNS Reaal

group and provides financial services,

including mortgages, insurance,

bank accounts, investments and

pensions through a variety of

award-winning brands.

All SNS Reaal companies use a core

banking application which integrates

all key systems including an online

banking facility.

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ChallengeFor over 25 years SNS Bank has relied on its core banking

application, which runs on a Unisys mainframe and is used

daily by nearly all of its 5,000 employees.

Since the advent of the internet, the bank has seen a steady

rise in online transaction volumes, raising concerns over the

readiness of the Unisys mainframe to cope with the increased

business demand.

Business continuity was of paramount importance to SNS

and the bank decided to rethink its whole IT infrastructure

to meet the demands of a modern and dynamic world. At the

same time, the organization wanted to foster collaboration

between development teams while retaining a high-

performance core banking system.

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Successful team effort

The large modernization project began with the

automatic conversion of 95% of the current

COBOL code, using the Micro Focus COBOL

solution. The remaining code was rewritten to

C++ and COBOL.

Since this was a considerable task, involving

2.8 million lines of code and a sizeable DMS II

database, an environment was introduced to test

all major components, which involved up to

40 developers.

IBM Global Services managed the solution architecture,

development of certain re-platform components

and the data interface modules; while Micro Focus

performed an advisory role and was heavily involved

in software and architecture configuration.

The result was a successful transfer to a

distributed environment, with excellent

performance levels and full adherence to

current Service Level Agreements.

ORIGINAL PLATFORM: Unisys mainframe

APPLICATION RE-HOST TECHNOLOGY: Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Eclipse, Micro Focus COBOL Server

APPLICATION RE-HOST PARTNER: IBM Global Services

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“We wanted to streamline our development and standardize on a single environment so that our team of 25 COBOL developers can collaborate more effectively. Visual COBOL is a natural next step for us and we can see many benefits, including superior debugging capabilities which will enable earlier fault detection. We expect to see efficiency gains as well as a rise in developer productivity levels.”

Alex Pot, Head of Application Development Core Banking, SNS Bank

“Moving our core banking system to a distributed environment has drastically reduced our business risk and has given us a path to the future.”

Ramakant Patki, Head of IT Infrastructure and Operations, SNS Bank

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