{"id":16932,"date":"2015-09-01T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=233791"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:29:57","slug":"ibm-signs-cloud-development-agreement-with-anz-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-signs-cloud-development-agreement-with-anz-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM signs cloud development agreement with ANZ bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANZ has signed a five-year, A$450 million (\u00a3208 million) strategic agreement with IBM, the centrepiece of which is the establishment of a cloud-based Innovation Lab based on IBM\u2019s Bluemix cloud development platform-as-a-service, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankingtech.com\/\">Banking Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lab will allow the Bank\u2019s developers to build, test and deploy new applications and services at \u201ca fraction of the time and cost previously taken\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the Innovation Lab and cloud capabilities, the agreement includes access to IBM\u2019s software portfolio and core systems infrastructure. The IBM agreement will provide common platforms across ANZ\u2019s network as it continues to grow as a super-regional bank and will allow the bank to deliver a \u201cmore integrated and innovative banking experience for digital customers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>IBM will deploy its newest z13 mainframe and Power8 infrastructure as part of ANZ\u2019s private cloud environment. The infrastructure will provide the bank with the reliability, security and resiliency needed to service the needs of mobile customers across the bank\u2019s network. IBM integration, content management, data, analytics and cloud software will support ANZ\u2019s core banking and infrastructure needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding our customers\u2019 needs and preferences around mobile and digital banking is critical to our business and to providing a superior customer experience,\u201d said Scott Collary, ANZ\u2019s chief information officer. \u201cWe therefore need to ensure we\u2019re meeting these needs in an innovative, consistent and seamless way and with this partnership with IBM, we\u2019re working to achieve this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IBM has been a strategic partner of ANZ for more than 40 years said Scott Barlow, IBM client director for ANZ Bank: \u201cThis new agreement continues to build on this by enabling ANZ access to an arsenal of leading edge technology to provide the agility, speed and innovation essential in the rapidly changing financial services marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANZ has signed a five-year, A$450 million (&pound;208 million) strategic agreement with IBM, the centrepiece of which is the establishment of a cloud-based Innovation Lab based on IBM&rsquo;s Bluemix cloud development platform-as-a-service, reports Banking Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3351,415,2919,3352,799,1976,73],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anz","category-asia-pacific","category-banking","category-development","category-ibm","category-news-analysis","category-research","tag-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}