Case Study: Banca Popolare di Sondrio achieves 20% faster development and 40% lower dev/test costs with OpenText (Micro Focus solutions)

Boosting developer productivity and delivering new customer offerings with Micro Focus

Banca Popolare di Sondrio, a cooperative bank in Italy with 2,600 employees and over 330 branches, needed to deliver new digital services faster while keeping overheads low. With core systems on the IBM mainframe, development and testing competed for scarce capacity, limiting agility and slowing time-to-market amid growing customer and regulatory demands.

The bank deployed Micro Focus Enterprise Developer, Enterprise Test Server and Data Express on cost‑effective x86 servers to move development and initial testing off the mainframe into an Eclipse-based, protected environment. The change boosted developer productivity and shortened test cycles by 20%, cut costs by 20% compared with expanding mainframe capacity, and is projected to reduce total development and testing costs by 40% over three years while improving code quality and attracting new talent.

Banca Popolare di Sondrio

Milo Gusmeroli

Vice President