Case Study: Finanz Informatik improves banking uptime and monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Firm improves IT services to German banks with centralized monitoring solution

Finanz Informatik, a major IT services provider for the German savings bank sector, faced significant challenges in managing its complex infrastructure of approximately 32,000 servers. The maintenance of its self-written, decentralized monitoring tools was labor-intensive and time-consuming, preventing proactive management. To achieve its best-in-class strategy, Finanz Informatik sought a centralized solution and chose to implement Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to automate configuration and gain better insight.

By deploying Microsoft's solution, Finanz Informatik centralized monitoring for thousands of Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers. This resulted in drastically improved agility, with management pack deployments reduced from weeks to days. The Microsoft product provided deeper diagnostic data, enabling technical teams to respond to problems faster and more proactively. The company expects the solution to reduce labor costs and, most importantly, ensure the continuous service availability required by millions of banking customers.

Finanz Informatik

Astrid Clausen-Grube

IT Specialist–Monitoring