Case Study: Leading European Bank achieves IT portfolio transparency and regulatory-ready strategic decisions with Software AG (Alfabet)

Banking on Alfabet For Continuous Architecture And Technology Improvement

This leading European bank, a global wealth management and investment-banking firm with over €500 billion in assets (2017), faced a fragmented IT landscape split across three separate application repositories for private banking, investment banking and infrastructure. The disconnected systems drove up costs, hindered compliance with increasingly stringent banking regulations, and left the bank unprepared for industry-wide digital transformation.

The bank implemented Alfabet from Software AG, consolidating its repositories beginning in 2008 and expanding to strategic planning and monitoring capabilities in 2014. Alfabet harmonized IT assets, integrated with management and control processes, and delivered analytics and reporting that improved regulatory compliance, enabled asset reuse, reduced unnecessary projects, and gave leadership a trusted source of operational and strategic insight—positioning the bank to accelerate its digitalization, cloud and AI/DevOps initiatives.