(Boursier.com) – IBM announced an extended collaboration with Crédit Agricole through a new seven-year agreement. Together, the bank and IBM will focus on providing customers with an enhanced digital experience. The new agreement will relate to the modernization of part of the Crédit Agricole group’s applications, in particular the management of accounts and loans. This modernization will allow the bank to benefit from the latest IBM technologies, including IBM Z, in terms of cryptography, security, resilience and interoperability.
Crédit Agricole plans to improve the modularity and openness of its applications and to gain in agility with a modern development tool common to all DevOps platforms.
A team of engineers and experts from Kyndryl will work in collaboration with the Crédit Agricole teams to supervise the project and ensure operational continuity by setting up a dedicated Kyndryl Services and Skills Center (CDC / CDS). at IBM Z.
“We are very happy and proud to continue working with the Crédit Agricole group with which we share many corporate values”, declares Christophe Desachy – Vice-President IBM France – Managing Director. “This new step in our long-standing collaboration materializes the confidence of the Crédit Agricole Group in IBM’s technologies and expertise to carry out its transformation.”
The modernization project opens up new development prospects, in particular AI and “Cloud-native” offers, in order to meet the demands of the current rapidly evolving digital economy.
This will help optimize customer journeys, deploy useful innovations on a large scale in Crédit Agricole’s markets and improve operational efficiency in the service of the bank’s customers.
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