CASE STUDY
roadmap and quickly deploy an enterprise-
level archiving solution. Archiving Platform
drives the Group’s archiving requirements
by storing vital structured and unstructured
content, including all transaction records,
ATM logs and customer digitised signatures
captured in-branch. Thousands of Group
employees, located across the bank’s branch
and administrative footprint, quickly and
easily access and retrieve data through the
Archiving Platform intuitive web interface
and/or through business applications.
To ensure security compliance, EMC RSA
Data Protection Manager encrypts PCI-DSS
data only (e.g. credit card data. Other data
such as SEPA data is not encrypted). Data
security and high performance is further
enhanced with EMC enterprise data storage
solutions: EMC Centera storage systems,
a primary platform and a secondary
storage device deployed at a separate
location, ensure full data protection and
synchronisation, as well as high levels of
data availability.
Full security for large
scale archiving
authentication, electronic signature and
archiving, Card and Payments Department,
Credit Agricole Group.
Mr Lundi also noted that the solution
must be cost-effective. “Each individual
bank within our Group has the right to
purchase its own archiving infrastructure.
As owner of the Group archiving solution,
I have to convince other Group banks to
use and financially contribute to a solution
recommended by the Group. The banks
make that decision based not only on
capabilities but also on price.”
Credit Agricole Group issued an RFP for a
new enterprise archiving solution. It not
only considered major vendors but also
SaaS models. However, Mr Lundi quickly
realised that achieving compliance would be
easier and more efficient by implementing
a solution on-site, one that he and his team
could tightly control.
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Following extensive analysis, Credit Agricole
Group selected an integrated archiving,
storage and data security solution from
OpenText Archiving.
Since deploying its OpenText archiving
solution (the CAESAR project Credit Agricole
Electronic System for Archiving and Retrieval)
Credit Agricole Group is securely archiving
data associated with eight billion credit card
transactions every year valued at more than
€250 billion every day. This includes more
than 100,000 digitised signatures captured
daily in the Group’s bank branches. This is a
new project that is being developed at Credit
Agricole for unstructured data.
The solution
Mr Lundi’s team worked closely with
Documentum Professional Services to
With Archiving Platform, the Group easily
meets all SEPA and PCI-DSS compliance,
including data security, availability and
WITH OPENTEXT ARCHIVING
PLATFORM, I CAN MANAGE MASSIVE
DATA VOLUMES AND MEET ALL
SECURITY STANDARDS BECAUSE I
USE A HIGHLY SECURE, IN-HOUSE
ARCHIVING SOLUTION.
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