Commonwealth Bank of Australia's aging mainframe system supporting one of its wealth management services was becoming increasingly costly and cumbersome. To reduce costs and improve processes, the Bank wanted to move to a more advanced and efficient system.
EDS worked closely with the Bank and third-party vendors to migrate the Capital system to a UNIX platform. The team developed a prototype and benchmarked various configurations to determine the optimum price-to-performance balance, conducted database tuning, and installed supporting tools.
Today, hosting costs are a third of what they used to be, batch processing times were more than halved, and Web site bottlenecks have been eliminated. The project was a team effort that paid off for both the Bank and its customers.
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