Orange Bank, which has nearly 2 million customers in France and Spain, has just switched its information system (IS) to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. With the help of Ippon Technologies, the French online bank wants to merge its two technical platforms into one thanks to the cloud.
A migration of its information system to the cloud in stages
Since its creation, Orange Bank’s information system has been based on the infrastructure of Groupama Support & Services, a subsidiary of the Groupama group which was the bank’s majority shareholder until 2016. This is in 2021, under the impetus by Orange Bank’s Director of Information Systems (DSI), Emmanuel Yoo, that the company affirms its desire to modernize its IS. Thus the project was born go to the AWS cloud “.
While G2S’s IT infrastructure was practical for establishing itself in France and then Spain, it forced Orange Bank’s teams to split their IS in two. The French platform was already in the cloud, but the Spanish one was not. The online bank carried out a full-scale test to see if it was interesting to combine the two platforms into a single IS called One Bank.
Ippon Technologies, a technology consultancy and preferred online banking partner, is helping Orange Bank. She advises him to upgrade his IS by moving it to the AWS cloud. The Orange bank branch persuaded its parent company to start the project. The latter has requested guarantees from its subsidiary on the feasibility of this merger and this sale, as well as on a potential dependence on the cloud service of the e-commerce giant. Guarantees provided by Orange Bank.
Orange Bank merges its French and Spanish platforms into a single IS
At the end of 2021, the company started the migration, starting from its banking information system (SIRC), which forms the basis of its application. It was in March 2022 that its Personal Data Information System (SIDP) started moving to the cloud. The whole process took several months to complete in October 2022 with the integration of an AI system recently developed in-house by the company.
As indicated by Ludovic Lemperor, Head of Infrastructure of Orange Bank, in a blog post by Ippon Technologies,” The number of accidents has been significantly reduced. Infrastructure costs have also decreased, particularly with Ippon implementing FinOps best practices since the project’s inception. And today, Orange Bank takes full advantage of the catalog of services offered by AWS “.
However, the project isn’t finished. Now that he has defined the building blocks he wants to maintain in One Bank, the Orange bank branch will need to design its own hosting platform. The first works started in the year 2022 and are expected to be completed early next year. At that point, Orange Bank’s parent company is expected to offer its trusted cloud developed with the help of Capgemini, based on Microsoft 365 services and Microsoft Azure.
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