November 6, 2007 IBS, Russia’s leading player in the IT and consulting market, has completed the technical design of the data processing center of Gazprombank. Hardware and software of the data processing center pilot area, intended for testing and trial operation of components and hardware solutions, have been launched based on solutions produced for this project.
Gazprombank (open joint-stock company), Russia's biggest non-state owned bank and the authorized bank of OAO Gazprom, is among Russia's top three banks by all the main indices. Building a state-of-the-art data processing center is one of the bank's most important development projects.
The data processing center project seeks to
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provide information and technology resources for implementation of Gazprombank's strategic objectives that involve gaining and retaining leadership positions in the banking sector;
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minimize system-level risks and threats to operations related to functioning of banking automation facilities;
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build hardware to enable implementation of state-of-the-art banking information technologies;
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contribute to increasing the capitalization of Gazprombank.
IBS completed data processing center technical design services, produced the statement of work and the design documentation. The philosophy of building Gazprombank's data processing center is to consolidate the bank's computing facilities and data.
IBS and Gazprombank professionals have now launched the hardware and software of the data processing center pilot area, which will primarily be used for testing hardware solutions designed. At this stage, the data processing center pilot area is used for:
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presenting new software products and hardware solutions for the data processing center;
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comparative testing and selection of new products and hardware solutions;
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compatibility testing of new products and hardware solutions;
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analyzing risks of implementation of new products and hardware solutions in the data processing center;
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development and testing of extra components to the data processing center;
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trial operation of new components and hardware solutions of the data processing center.
Work is underway at Gazprombank to deploy the core data processing center based on components and hardware solutions tested in the pilot area.
About Gazprombank
Gazprombank was established in 1990 as a strategic partner of OAO Gazprom and the gas industry. Gazprombank (open joint-stock company) is currently one of Russia's biggest universal financial institutions providing a broad array of banking, financial and investment products and services to corporate and individual customers, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors.
Gazprombank is one of Russia's three biggest banks and ranks third by capital size among the biggest banks of Central and Eastern Europe. Based on 2006 results Gazprombank improved its standing in the ranking list of The Banker magazine, having moved from 254 to 137 by capital size among the world's top 1,000 banks.
Gazprombank shareholders are GAZFOND non-governmental pension fund (50 per cent plus 1 share), OAO Gazprom (41.73 per cent) and OOO Novfintech, a subsidiary of Gazprombank (8.27 per cent).
The bank serves key Russian industries including the gas, oil, nuclear, chemical and petrochemical, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, electric power, mechanical engineering and metal processing, transport, civil engineering, communications, agribusiness, retail and other industries.
Gazprombank enjoys investment-grade ratings from top global agencies. Moody’s Investors Service long-term foreign currency deposit rating stands at Baa2 (maximum available for Russia), while the debt rating stands at A3 (one of the highest in Russia). Standard & Poor’s long- and short-term counterparty credit ratings of the bank stand at BBB- (investment grade).
Gazprombank has over 1.8 million individual and 40 thousand corporate customers.
Gazprombank has an extensive regional network including 36 branches and 4 Russian subsidiary banks. Gazprombank holds a stake in the capital of one foreign bank (Belgazprombank, Belorus).
For a full profile of the bank, please visit www.gazprombank.ru.
IBS is Russia’s leading player in the IT and consulting market. It was formed through the merger of IBS and Borlas Consulting Group. It is part of IBS Group Holding Limited, along with Luxoft and Depo Computers. Its core lines of business are management consulting, business applications implementation, IT outsourcing and IT infrastructure. IBS headcount exceeds 3,400 employees including over 1,500 certified consultants. 84 of Russia’s top 100 companies are customers of IBS.
For more information on IBS please visit www.ibs.ru. For further information please contact Lada Scherbakova, PR Director, IBS at lada@ibs.ru, phone: +7 (495) 967-80-80.
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