Seeking to improve upon service levels to employees, the Human Resources department at Commercial Bank of Qatar, which was completely dependent upon manual processes, used Microsoft Dynamics AX, SharePoint, SQL Server and the .NET framework to automate and digitize their operations, standardizing and streamlining all HR processes into a single, consolidated, integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Human Capital Management-based platform.

Windows 8 has a structure uniting all channels on a unique platform where any screen can be a banking channel. This is very important because most of users are using different types of devices, more than one device and struggling with the disorder created by this. Application Store is an important point to reach to customers. TEB believes to the security applications coming with Windows 8 which are crucial for banking transactions.

The application has been written with a new generation user interface which let the field sales staff enter data very quickly when they come together with the customers. Field sales staff can complete data entry quickly on solely focusing on the application with the help of full screen application interface of Windows 8. Field sales staff can search in a single location in the application, can see all categories and main subjects and move to the point with a single zoom movement at the same time. Tablets have very long battery life and field sales staff doesn’t require to recharge the tablets during the whole day. Fibabanka has used all the existing security and system management software without any additional infrastructure investment.

Adopting the Microsoft Customer Relationship Management tool has allowed Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking to optimize its business relationships by developing a portfolio of 160,000 contacts at 50,000 different client organizations throughout the world, successfully taking control of its customer data, which was previously scattered amongst several different tools.

YapiKredi Emeklilik, is a subsidiary of YapiKredi Bank which is one of the largest banks in Turkey. YapiKredi Emeklilik has been offering life insurance and pension plans to the citizens of Turkey for over 20 years. In an effort to differentiate themselves from others in the industry, they implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM to deliver exceptional customer service. CRM also creates a unified view of customer data allowing them to provide the right products to their customers.

Nigeria’s first major financial institution is today, in its second century of operations, one of the nation’s biggest and most prosperous financial services groups. One of this historic institution’s stated aims is to build on its history and reputation by streamlining using new-age processes, technology and mindset. First Bank Nigeria’s IT team opted to use Microsoft SharePoint to automate its account opening processes – with results that exceeded even their most optimistic projections.

IT management of the bank was a necessity of choosing a new platform-development - an easy-to-use, cost-effective, functional and reliable.

Facing a highly competitive domestic market, Bank SinoPac lacked the scale to compete with other major banks, and while international expansion offered greater promise, it was constrained by existing systems and resources. Its answer: the TEMENOS T24 core banking solution running on Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server. The outcome: a 50 percent drop in software and hardware expenditure, a platform future-proofed for domestic and international expansion and the flexibility to continue out-innovating its competitors.

Principality Building Society in the United Kingdom wanted to further automate its data centre operations and manage its IT environment with one set of tools. It deployed Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 and the Windows Server 2012 operating system with Hyper-V technology to monitor its infrastructure, including third-party tools such as VMware. The upgrade is boosting productivity by reducing manual processes and saving tens of thousands of pounds.

The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) was established in 1898 and is the oldest commercial bank as well as being one of the leading financial institutions in the country. Moreover, the bank has a pivotal role in boosting Egypt’s economy by supporting several strategic economic sectors such as oil, energy and tourism. One of its main goals is to provide world-class banking services and products to its local and international clients, both public and private. However, with an aging IT infrastructure, the bank’s management realized that there was a major need to modernize and completely overhaul its entire IT infrastructure. Deploying several Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server 2012, where they were one of the first early adopter customers in Egypt, gave the bank a very powerful and highly scalable virtualization platform that allowed it to meet and exceed its goals.