Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 02 | Page 66

CASE STUDY integrity requirements. The solution is also easy to use. Staff simply access the data through an intuitive Archiving Platform web interface. Searching across a variety of parameters including transaction date, customer, location and similar, employees can quickly retrieve specific data from datasets containing billions of records. With Archiving Platform, Credit Agricole staff have significantly increased efficiency and productivity by decreasing search times for documents from hours to only seconds. Archiving Platform is also highly cost-effective. Mr Lundi illustrates this by explaining that recently another bank within the Group was considering a new archiving system. Mr Lundi had to internally sell his new OpenText solution against stiff competition. “We beat all competitors by demonstrating that Archiving Platform was not only more effective, but it had a less expensive cost per archived gigabyte of data than any other option, including external options.” 66 INTELLIGENTCIO WITH ARCHIVING PLATFORM, THE GROUP EASILY MEETS ALL SEPA AND PCI-DSS COMPLIANCE, INCLUDING DATA SECURITY, AVAILABILITY AND INTEGRITY REQUIREMENTS. Securely managing massive volumes with archiving platform Mr Lundi notes that the key to meeting vital compliance and certification requirements is keeping close control of data archiving processes. “We have to comply with regulatory requirements and we knew it would be difficult to do so with a cloud- based SaaS offering. Goals “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. Staff are happy because they can retrieve required data quickly and I’m happy because OpenText is always there to enhance their solutions, allowing us to reap even more benefits.” n www.intelligentcio.com