Case Study: Bank Asya achieves 50% lower hardware costs, 80% lower data-center expenses and faster transaction processing with Oracle SPARC, Solaris and Database

Bank Asya Cuts Hardware Expenses by 50%, Data-Center Expenses by 80%, and Software Costs by More Than 30%

Bank Asya, a Turkish retail and corporate bank founded in 1996, needed to modernize its business-critical IT—supporting core banking, credit card and internet-banking systems—while lowering costs, maintaining high availability and improving performance and scalability. The bank faced obsolete servers, rising energy, cooling and space demands, slow server provisioning, and the need to accelerate time-to-market for new services without compromising reliability.

Bank Asya implemented an Oracle full-stack solution—SPARC T5-2 and T5-4 servers, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Database 12c and Oracle VM Server for SPARC—consolidating more than 30 Intel servers into eight machines. Results included a ~50% reduction in hardware capital expenses, an ~80% cut in data-center operational costs, software savings of over 30% and an expected ROI in about one year; online and ATM transactions sped up ~30%, end-of-day processing ran up to 15× faster, server deployment became up to 80% faster, and physical space and administration costs fell dramatically.

Bank Asya

Cengiz Benli

IT Director