Case study

Achieving 80% Performance Boost with Rocket® Enterprise Suite 

LABORAL

LABORAL Kutxa needed to move beyond their existing infrastructure to meet growing customer demands for digital services. They sought a way to enhance system performance, reduce costs, and empower their development teams without interrupting their core operations. Here’s how Rocket® Enterprise Suite facilitated a seamless modernization.

Challenge

Declining system performance and rising costs, paired with talent acquisition hurdles, were stalling innovation and the bank's ability to meet multi-channel banking demands.

Solution

Rocket® Enterprise Developer and Rocket® Enterprise Server provided a powerful test environment for a flawless migration, equipping developers with modern DevOps tools.

Results

The bank achieved an 80% improvement in system efficiency, an 80% reduction in operational IT costs, and a significantly faster digital experience for their 1.1 million clients.

In the Rocket-powered environment, one batch process was reduced from 2 hours to just 12 minutes. Others that used to take over 100 minutes are now completed in only a minute. The efficiency of our systems improved by over 80% overall, while select processes improved by more than 90%.”

Joseba Maruri Director of Technology and Systems LABORAL Kutxa

Company

Industry: Banking

LABORAL Kutxa, based in Spain, believes in a different way of banking, building transparent and trusting relationships with their 1.1 million clients. This unique philosophy drives their business decisions.

Challenge

LABORAL Kutxa faced declining mainframe performance, rising support costs, and a lack of skilled developers, impacting their ability to deliver fast, secure mobile banking services.

To stay competitive, the bank required a robust modernization strategy that could significantly boost system performance and fortify security protocols. This transformation had to be achieved while simultaneously driving down operational costs, all without causing any downtime or disruption to the critical systems their clients depend on every day.

 

Solution

To ensure a seamless transition to an open systems platform, the bank implemented a robust test environment that automatically verified millions of nightly transactions.

The new environment offered powerful DevOps capabilities and supported multiple programming languages, creating a more versatile and modern development landscape. This modernization enabled development teams to collaborate more effectively and work in the languages they were most proficient in, helping the company attract and retain top-tier talent to drive future innovation.

Results

The bank achieved transformative efficiency and 80% cost savings with a flawless, ahead-of-schedule switchover.

The system switchover occurred over a single weekend with zero downtime. Performance gains were immediate: batch processes that previously took hours now finish in minutes, and digital banking homepages load in under 3 seconds. By reducing operational IT costs by 80%, the bank successfully redirected funds toward cybersecurity and advanced analytics.

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