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IBM PureFlex provides an ideal environment for deploying Temenos T24

The challenge facing the banking industry is clear: banks need a smarter way of doing business. Today’s banks are facing unprecedented change, so they must also change if they wish to remain competitive. Banking business models and their supporting IT infrastructure need to be able to keep up with the new industry realities of risk, regulation and customer retention.

In addition, new entrants to the banking industry, such as Paypal, Bitcoin and Tesco, are not encumbered by antiquated core banking systems, creating even more pressure on traditional banks to update their way of doing business. To be successful, next-generation banks must be ready to compete in a manner that decreases costs, encourages business agility, and lowers risk.

Many banks have turned to Temenos, a leading global banking software company and IBM Premier Business Partner, to find a smarter way to meet the demands of the modern banking environment. Temenos T24™ (T24) is the world’s most widely used core banking system, providing 24-hour, real-time access to banking information. Together, Temenos and IBM provide customers with compelling joint solutions, combining Temenos’ technology and application banking software with IBM’s complementary hardware, software and services solutions.

If you’ve already selected Temenos T24 as your core banking system of choice, then you are most likely aware of all the benefits that T24 has to offer: comprehensive business functionality with an advanced, secure, scalable and modular architecture that ensures consistency of service across all branches and delivery channels.

Deploying T24 on IBM PureFlex can help you build on these benefits with additional simplicity, flexibility, availability and virtualization.

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IBM PureFlex Banking

IBM PureFlexA part of the IBM PureSystems line of expert integrated systems, the PureFlex System is a flexible infrastructure system with integrated expertise that senses and anticipates the resources required to optimize your infrastructure. IBM PureFlex deeply integrates compute nodes, storage, networking and virtualization into a single system with a single, unified management console. Its built-in expertise helps organizational leaders more simply manage and flexibly deploy integrated patterns of virtual and physical resources.

SimplicityPureFlex is designed, built, and delivered as a complete, ready-to-use system. Once the IBM service engineers complete the installation (usually within four hours), you’ll have a working system in place that could help take weeks off the infrastructure deployment of T24.

With IBM Flex System Manager, PureFlex also provides a single application to manage your entire environment, making it much easier to manage resources. Whether you’re in the office or on the go, Flex System Manager provides everything you need to manage your compute, storage, network and virtualized resources.

IBM Flex System Manager is designed to help you get the most out of IBM PureFlex System. By automating repetitive tasks, IBM Flex System Manager frees up more of your time, so you can focus your efforts on business innovation.

FlexibilityCompared to other pre-integrated systems, IBM PureFlex is extremely flexible in its design and layout. When you first roll out your PureFlex implementation, you can start with as few as one compute node. As your business needs change, you’ll be able to add nodes (up to 41 in a rack) without having to pay for an expensive system upgrade.

One of the key benefits of T24 is its flexibility to work across operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and AIX. PureFlex gives users the ability to deploy T24 on the operating system of their choice, allowing them to take advantage of the flexibility offered by T24.

AvailabilityFor banking institutions that deploy T24, the ability to keep systems up and running is of the upmost importance. IBM PureFlex has many features that are designed specifically to provide high availability for business-critical systems, including internal duplexed network switches and multiple redundant power supplies and fans. IBM PureFlex is designed to protect business applications from outages of virtually any kind.

VirtualizationIBM PureFlex offers a state-of-the-art virtualization environment, including virtualized systems, storage and networking. This gives you a complete virtual datacenter, which can be easily managed using software. Thanks to the virtualization capabilities offered by IBM PureFlex, you’ll be able to perform complex system reconfigurations without having to touch a single cable.

PureFlex also operates as a private cloud environment, allowing you to make some or all of your capacity available to users as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud. Delivering T24 development and test environments over the cloud gives your developers the ability to access these environments through a self-service portal.

“IBM PureFlex System takes the IT industry beyond delivering IT components to start delivering integrated expertise that maximizes optimization and automation. IBM Pure Systems provides greater agility reduces risk and allows greater predictability for banks.”

—JohnSchlesinger,ChiefEnterpriseArchitect,TEMENOS

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About TemenosFounded in 1993, Temenos Group AG is the market leading provider of mission-critical software systems to retail, corporate, universal, private, Islamic, microfinance and community banks, wealth managers, and other financial institutions.

Headquartered in Geneva with 59 offices worldwide, Temenos software is proven in over 1,500 customer deployments in more than 140 countries across the world. Temenos’ products provide advanced technology and rich functionality, incorporating best practice processes that leverage Temenos’ expertise around the globe.

Why IBMIBM has decades of experience in the banking and financial services industry and provides a wide range of business consulting, financing and information technology services, including a broad choice of server platforms, related storage, databases and middleware. IBM’s Smarter Computing strategy can help banks and other businesses address customers’ increasing service expectations and control rising costs while laying the foundation for breakthrough productivity, gains and accelerated value creation.

IBM brings the credentials and commitment that comes from working for many years with some of the world’s leading financial services companies. Working together with Temenos, we can help you build a smarter bank and create a robust, dynamic, scalable platform for growth and innovation.

For more informationTo learn more about IBM PureFlex, contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner or visit: ibm.com/pureflex

To learn more about how IBM and Temenos can benefit your banking institution, please contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner or visit: ibm.com/banking

Simplicity• Get up and running in hours.

• Manage your entire environment with a single application.

• Free up time for business innovation by automating repetitive tasks.

Virtualization• Easily manage a complete virtual data center using software.

• Allow users to access T24 development and test environments through a private cloud.

Availability• Ensure high availability

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• Deploy T24 on the operating system of your choice.

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