How IT projects work in banks?

After the crisis, banks have been approached with special attention to the selection of a necessary strategy, but many did and changed the usual principles. Not the exception of steel and IT technology. What is the place allotted to them in the banking industry? What technologies will shape the future, as well as making it difficult for IT departments told Bank.ru CEO of Universal Kube and former director of the department of technological change "BIN" Sergei Vikhrov. - What role in the banking sector are an IT solutions? - Competition between banks is enhanced by the creation of complex new products, reduce time launching new services and reduce their costs for their implementation to provide clients with special conditions. One of the ways to achieve this - a modern, well-built and managed by the IT system. But the flaws in the construction or operation, on the contrary, deprive the bank to compete successfully. - What technologies can be called technologies of the future? - Of course, becomes relevant technologies that enable customers to get high-quality banking services without visiting the office of credit institutions. For example, the corresponding potential is a plastic card. These are technology and business process automation BPM. They certainly do not apply to new technologies, but I think it would be very popular in the near future. We also eyeing the technology of Cloud, which may change as the architecture of IT systems and IT management at the bank. - What is the latest IT solutions in the bank do you consider most successful? - Large-scale project to change the banking system is not finished yet, but already partially implemented in several branches. Of significant projects, of course, is integration, which now operates more than 90 infopotokov. Were interesting and implementation projects for constructing reporting SAP BusinessObjects. Regarding the latter, the use of the technology company SAP has allowed us to create a data warehouse, and quickly develop reports. In addition, we use SAP BusinessObjects, not only for creating reports from data warehouse, but also of our IT systems, which allows us to obtain the sophisticated analytical reports, and "operational" of IT systems. - What do you say about those projects that were implemented in 2010? They were able to improve BINBANK? - From the turn-key, in my opinion, the most interesting project was the monitoring of business processes to IT systems with regard to their integration. The Bank, in most cases are not interested in IT failures and problems in terms of IT, but discussion of the quality of support of business processes is very constructive. - What is the most difficult work of the department of information technology? - Observing the trend of IT departments, bank to outsource IT systems to the newly established IT company Universal Kube. We hope that this will remove the growing complexities associated with the shortage of qualified personnel, as well as make the dialogue between IT and the rest of the bank's business-oriented. - What are you face in 2011? - We have outlined an ambitious plan to complete the migration project of the bank for a new banking system BANCS.