Deutsche Bank has trebled the productivity of its datacentres
worldwide after installing schedule planning software to automate
batch processing.
The investment bank has also slashed running costs. It halved the
number of datacentre operators in London by using BMC
software.
Previously much of the batch processing in the Deutsche Bank
datacentres was carried out manually by operations staff. They had
to access hundreds of different applications, each with its own
menu for scheduling tasks such as data feeds and outputs. The
commands are mission critical and need to run in a strict
sequence.
The BMC package, Control M, has also automated much of the batch
processing in Deutsche and has given managers an overview of every
job running in the UK. Staff access the scheduling functions of
each application using a single Windows-style user interface.
Adam Lovick, assistant vice-president of Deutsche Bank, said, "The
head of IT said that we could gain huge efficiencies from the data
and halve the costs of the work in the datacentres."
As a result of the new software productivity in the datacentres has
trebled, handling 160,000 jobs a night.
Deutsche Bank is keen to build on these savings by integrating the
scheduling software with its enterprise resource planning systems
and e-commerce infrastructure.
Deutsche Bank's data overhaul
1. Scheduling software from BMC standardises and automates
batch processing
2. It runs across 12 datacentres worldwide
3. It creates a single interface for operators to oversee
mission critical batch processing tasks, such as data feeds and
execution files. These jobs underpin all the bank's business and
need to run in a sequence
4. Deutsche Bank datacentres currently handle about 160,000
tasks a night. In the long term the bank hopes that the datacentres
will be able to process 2,500,000 tasks
5. BMC software integrates with various operating systems
including Linux, and with its hardware.