Case Study: Banca Carige achieves secure, customer‑centric mobile banking and faster analytics with IBM zEnterprise software

Providing superior customer service by launching innovative mobile services on a secure platform

Banca Carige, one of Italy’s largest banks serving about 1.2 million customers, needed a more customer‑centric approach to understand customer behavior and launch modern mobile services while preserving the security and 24/7 availability critical to banking. To meet this challenge the bank partnered with IBM, deploying IBM software on IBM zEnterprise EC12 mainframes—including DB2 for z/OS, IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS, WebSphere, IBM Campaign and CICS—to build a secure, high‑performance platform for analytics and mobile banking.

IBM implemented a consolidated analytics environment and a new mobile banking architecture on the zEnterprise platform: centralizing the data warehouse on DB2 for z/OS, adding DB2 Analytics Accelerator to speed queries, migrating marketing databases, and running mobile web services on WebSphere/Linux on zEnterprise with transactions processed through CICS and DB2. The result for Banca Carige was faster, secure 24/7 digital services, a single “version of the truth” for analytics, reduced cost and complexity by eliminating distributed data marts, and the ability to deploy innovative mobile services quickly for its customer base.

Banca Carige

Daniele Cericola

ICT Governance Manager