Bank Central Asia (BCA) is one of Indonesia’s leading private banks. It has more than 16 million business and individual customers, served through more than 1,200 branches, 17,200 ATMs, and Internet and mobile banking apps.
State-of-the-art banking systems and services are among BCA’s major differentiators. However, the bank needed a better way to manage its growing network. So it implemented Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) in its two data centers, bringing policy based automation and centralized management to BCA’s banking network and 50 core applications.
BCA’s entire network is now managed from a single console, the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). Automation has replaced a host of manual tasks, speeding up infrastructure deployments and changes in support of business, customer, and application development needs.
“Moving from traditional networking to application-centric networking has made us all faster and more efficient,” says Lily Wongso, Data Center Network Manager at BCA. For example, the BCA IT team used to spend several days manually preparing systems and networking gear for long public holidays, when the use of Internet and mobile banking increases by 10–20 percent. With Cisco ACI, however, it can make the adjustments in minutes. It’s all done in software.