Case Study: Banco Guayaquil achieves 80% infrastructure cost reduction and faster digital banking with OpenText

Banco Guayaquil - Customer Case Study

Banco Guayaquil, a major Ecuadorian bank founded in 1923, set out to become the country’s leading digital bank but was constrained by an aging, costly IBM mainframe running 13,000 applications. Customers demanded 24/7, mobile-first services, so the bank needed virtually limitless scalability, faster application development, and lower fixed costs while avoiding instability and saturation from its legacy platform.

Banco Guayaquil partnered with Maint and chose Micro Focus Enterprise Server, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Analyzer to migrate its applications to x86 servers, modernize development, and perform impact analysis. The move doubled monitoring capacity, cut overnight batch times by about 25%, halved energy and datacenter footprint, reduced mainframe-related expenses by 80%, produced zero migration failures, and delivered a scalable, cost-efficient platform with an anticipated full ROI in about three years.

Banco Guayaquil

Franz Zambrano

Architecture and Innovation Manager