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Case study Company name: PostFinance
A major Swiss financial services company is poised to improve its market share with a growth strategy that has significant IT implications. IBM Global Business Services conducted an Enterprise Architecture study to align the IT environment with the overall business goals, outlining benefits and costs for developing and maintaining this kind of three-tier architecture to ensure IT is ready to support the business through its growth changes. |
Business need PostFinance recently adopted a business growth strategy that the executive management board was sure would have a significant impact on the bank's business and IT environment. The company needed to outline the exact IT implications, identify gaps where the existing structures wouldn't support growth and ensure IT objectives were aligned with overall business goals. |
Solution IBM Global Business Services conducted a feasibility study by describing a possible Enterprise Architecture, based on the CBM method, which links PostFinance's business, application and technical structures. The study identifies both the costs and benefits of developing and maintaining this kind of three-tier Architecture with regards to supporting the desired business change. |
Results The BCS solution highlights the IT implications of the PostFinance's business strategy and helps determine whether the current IT environment is capable of supporting the bank in achieving its goals. · Provides strategic and tactical business insight with a clear relation to the underlying IT environment · Aligns business goals and IT objectives · Outlines short and long term cost/benefit ratio · Positions PostFinance for growth and increased market share |
Customer information | PostFinance | | PostFinance is a Swiss financial services company and a division of the publicly-owned Swiss Post. PostFinance specializes in payment processing, personal finance and Internet banking. |
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