Company Name: KOC Bank

Industry: Banking

Headquarters: Istanbul, Turkey

Founded: 1986

Number of Employees: 1000+

URL: www.yapikredi.com.tr

Year of Migration: 2003

Lines of Code: 2M in total

Mainframe: Clearpath NX 6800

Migrated to: Sun Solaris Server

Challenge

Koçbank is one of the largest retail banks in Turkey and has subsidiaries in several other countries. It relies on a banking package developed internally in the proprietary Linc language which ran on Unisys Clearpath and Sun Solaris equipment. It wanted to migrate the legacy application, interface programs and auxiliary libraries onto much lower-cost open systems based architecture. Koçbank had a limited window of opportunity since the Turkish Lira was due to be replaced by the New Turkish Lira at the end of 2004. Time and efficiency of delivery was of the essence.

Solution

Koçbank selected migration software from MSS International to port the application and database to open systems, and chose SUN to supply the enterprise-scale Unix platform. The bank also subcontracted from MSS the necessary training and education on how to efficiently use, modify and reconfigure the MSS Migration tools and products.

Results

The project was accomplished in time and went live in mid October 2004 giving enough time to complete the currency changeover modifications. The system was deployed in Turkey itself, the Netherlands and Azerbaijan. Koçbank now finds itself well positioned to expand further with a stronger system that is more scalable to cope with growth.

Quote

“The migration has saved over twelve million US Dollars. It also helped Koçbank to smoothly, easily and in a short time implement the mandatory currency change. This involved not only cutting 6 zeros from all amounts, but also converting and applying this to all historical data. This also included all delivery channels from Credit Cards and ATMs to Internet banking. The task was very intensive since all programs and logics needed to be revisited and code was modified to comply with the new currency rules. The new environment made it easy for the developers to conduct this task properly in quite a short time and have it ready by 1 January 2005.”

Hishem Laroussi, CIO of Koçbank

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