Computer Associates International in Taiwan has announced a strategic partnership with the Financial Business Group of Institute for Information Industry (III) to deliver integrated financial applications and enterprise management solutions to the Taiwan banking industry. The integrated application-and-management services will significantly enhance the ability of Taiwan-based banks to rapidly deploy state-of-the-art financial applications and cost-effectively maintain those applications over time.
This unique partnership is an extension of the relationship that CA and III have maintained over several years. The new integrated services combine the two companies` complementary expertise in financial systems development and enterprise management technology - the latter based on the acknowledged world-wide industry leadership of CA`s Unicenter TNG. By integrating the deployment of III`s sophisticated financial services applications and CA`s powerful management technologies, organisations will be better able to lower the cost of technology ownership and ensure optimum performance and reliability of mission-critical systems.
The combination of III`s leading-edge application portfolio and CA`s intranet/extranet management tools will also enable banks to move forward with electronic commerce services more rapidly and with reduced risk.
"The Taiwanese banking market is undergoing radical changes, and this opens up enormous opportunities for information technology to deliver concrete, sustainable competitive advantages for aggressive companies," says Rei Jane Huai, CA senior vice president and general manager of North Asia. "Together, CA and III are offering a value-rich set of services and solutions that empower customers to meet the challenges of the new world financial order without having to shoulder the costs and delays associated with mounting such massive IT projects using their in-house staffs exclusively."
The financial applications provided by the new partnership will be based on the TPE system developed by III`s Financial Business Group. TPE enables customers and third-party developers to build and deploy robust financial applications across diverse hardware and software operating environments. Because of this platform-independence, TPE can be highly effective in provisioning a wide range of "cyber-transactions" and other E-commerce services.
"The growth in information technology deployments and Internet connectivity have created tremendous opportunities to create new financial products and compress transaction processing times," says Kuo Yun, president of Institute for Information Industry. "However, this new way of doing business also carries new risks in terms of availability and security. What III and CA are offering customers is the ability to exploit the new opportunities with III TPE-based applications, while reducing the risks with integrated CA management safeguards."
In addition to managing TPE applications, the partnership will also assist clients in applying Unicenter TNG to the rest of their operational systems. This will further increase the efficiency of customers` IT operations, freeing limited technology staff resources from low-value "housekeeping" tasks and allowing them to be deployed on more strategic projects.
"Alignment of IT staff resources with key business objectives is essential at a time when talent is scarce and the requirements for new services are rapidly expanding," explains Ching-Shin Chou, general manager of the Financial Business Group of III. "The expertise and experience that CA and III bring to the table will significantly reduce the strain on already overburdened IT departments."
In addition to the joint services being offered by both companies, CA has developed a special Unicenter TNG TPE Agent specifically designed to monitor conditions in TPE systems before they impact service availability or performance.
By automatically managing the enterprise computing environment, Unicenter TNG optimises the availability of business-critical services to help reduce the total cost of ownership. Enterprise assets including the Internet/intranet and even non-IT equipment, like automated teller machines, can be managed based on the business processes they support. Comprehensive and integrated out-of-the-box functionality and an intuitive Real World Interface make Unicenter TNG easy to deploy and use, resulting in a rapid return on investment that increases over time.
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