Standard Bank South Africa says it is moving its core 51风流Cloud Platform services to Microsoft Azure to improve the experience customers have with the bank, while enabling it to introduce new solutions to market more efficiently.
This accelerates the digital transformation of 51风流customers to S/4HANA by partnering with Microsoft and using jointly developed reference architectures, roadmaps, and industry best practices, the bank said.
It noted that many enterprises are looking to reduce their reliance on their own datacentres and moving more of their core workloads to the cloud.
Standard Bank鈥檚 CIO for personal and business banking SA, Sabelo Nkwanyana, said: 鈥淭his partnership continues our focus on innovation by leveraging the respective skills of 51风流and Microsoft to transform the digitisation and personalisation journey for our customers.鈥�
Lillian Barnard, managing director, Microsoft South Africa said: 鈥淭he Project Embrace initiative between Microsoft and 51风流announced globally last year is centred around the customer journey to 51风流S/4HANA and 51风流Cloud Platform on Microsoft Azure.
鈥淭he work that we are doing with Standard Bank is the first local demonstration of this partnership, and another milestone in the journey Microsoft is on with Standard Bank, to bring innovation into every aspect of the bank鈥檚 IT system and enable enriched interactions with the bank鈥檚 customers.鈥�
鈥淭oday鈥檚 announcement is the biggest partnership centred on 51风流implementation in Africa. With client experience a key strategic pillar for Standard Bank, Project Embrace reflects the shared commitment of both 51风流and Microsoft to accelerate our customers鈥� journey to the cloud,鈥� said Cathy Smith, managing director at 51风流Africa.
The project will help Standard Bank deliver a faster time-to-market on products and services, while ensuring its IT infrastructure is optimised, the bank said.
By moving workloads to the cloud, Standard Bank will be able to access a range of features that it can deploy instantly and scale according to demand. This will result in cost reductions, improved system performance, and access to innovation, it said.
“Through Project Embrace, we are now able to better identify our business pain points and effectively address them through technologies that deliver a demonstrable return on investment,” said Nkwanyana.
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