Case Study: Societe Generale achieves business continuity and 5x faster DNS/API automation with EfficientIP SOLIDserver DDI

Ensuring Business Continuity and Efciency with Proven DDI, APIs and Automation

Societe Generale, a leading European bank operating in 66 countries with 131,000 staff and 26 million clients, was struggling with home‑grown DNS, DHCP and IPAM tooling across 70,000 servers. The in‑house DDI stack drove outages, slow DNS changes, high MTTR, limited scalability for cloud/DevOps workflows and growing regulatory/compliance pressure.

The bank implemented EfficientIP SOLIDserver DDI plus an abstraction/self‑service layer to unify DNS/DHCP/IPAM, enable IaC/CI‑CD and automate via stable APIs. Results included near‑zero API errors, APIs 5× faster and DNS propagation 10× faster, switchovers reduced from hours to ~10 minutes (overall RTO for critical apps dropped from ~2 hours to under 1 minute), expert time savings of 30–40%, fewer servers and rapid compliance certification.

Societe Generale

Olivier Laigle

Deputy Head, Server Operating Systems