1. Introduction

Hanseatic Bank, with its headquarters in Hamburg, has long been known especially for its expertise in the area of consumer loans (i.e. credit cards and personal loans). Since its foundation in 1969, additional core competencies have been added. The credit institution now has extensive knowledge in the areas of deposits, insurance and factoring. As a subsidiary of the Otto Group and Société Générale, the Hanseatic Bank is also represented in France in addition to its core business in Germany.

2. Initial situation and project assignment

Hanseatic Bank has set itself the goal of outsourcing zeb.control to the cloud, which will increase the company's flexibility through on-demand pricing and scaling and reduce the technical complexity as well as the operation and maintenance of the server infrastructure (on-prem). At the same time, maintaining the security and quality of the company's own architecture is an important concern for the Hamburg-based credit institution.

3. Project content and approach

In a first step, zeb carried out a proof-of-concept for Hanseatic Bank. For this purpose, the zeb.control applications from IMAC 2.0 (AAF) were transferred to zeb's AWS cloud in order to examine their basic behaviour and possible runtime potential. The proof-of-concept showed that all modules run reliably and stably in the cloud. After a basic presentation of the SaaS service model with cloud operation by zeb, the concrete details of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for Hanseatic Bank were discussed and worked out in a next step.

The implementation of the project is divided into three major task areas, with the setup of the cloud environment in AWS initialising the implementation phase, while task areas 2 (cloud adaptations to zeb.control) and 3 (testing & going live) largely ran in parallel.

4. Project results

The proof of concept has made it clear that the transition to cloud use does not lead to any showstoppers. This means that day-to-day business can continue as usual. In addition, the proof of concept has already revealed the existing runtime advantages and scaling options. This results in a high probability that the increase in flexibility, reduction of complexity and dependencies and maintenance of security and quality desired by Hanseatic Bank can be achieved in the further process.

5. About zeb.control

Since its foundation in 1992, zeb has established itself over the years as one of the leading strategy and management consultancies for the European financial services industry. With zeb.control, the company has created a flexible information system for the holistic presentation of all profit, risk and cost ratios of banks, FinTechs and insurance companies. The banking software provides the basis for efficient and agile management in the areas of strategy, financial, accounting, risk, treasury and regulatory, among others. zeb.control is a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN).