Bankers Trust Standardizes on Seagate Software
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Seagate Software, a provider of business intelligence software, has announced that Bankers Trust, after a rigorous evaluation process, will deploy Seagate Crystal Info 6 as its worldwide enterprise reporting and analysis system. Determining factors included Seagate Crystal Info's information sharing, enterprise scalability, web capabilities and ease of use.

"We initially evaluated fourteen products including Actuate, Cognos, Brio and Business Objects," said Robert Ross, Assistant Vice President, Client Processing Services, Bankers Trust Company. "None of these tools met our requirements and we quickly found that we needed a more powerful and robust system to meet our enterprise needs. That's when we discovered Seagate Crystal Info."

With over 18,000 employees in more than 50 countries worldwide, Bankers Trust is a leading financial services company. Two years ago, Bankers Trust initiated an ambitious IT project to consolidate its non contiguous infrastructure worldwide.

"The New York office alone had over 300 proprietary reporting tools accessing different data sources," continued Ross. "Information delivery was at a standstill. Compounded by high report failure rates and zero fault tolerance, it was an incredible challenge to share information interdepartmentally, let alone with our clients. Seagate Crystal Info not only empowers Banker's Trust with one integrated reporting system, but we have already increased our productivity by 30 percent with Seagate Crystal Info's fault tolerance alone."

Another decisive factor to Bankers Trust selection of Seagate Crystal Info 6 was scalability. According to Ross, Seagate Crystal Info's scalability with its 3-tier architecture meant four things: load balancing, fault tolerance, clustering and distribution of reports.

"No other tool can touch Seagate Software's scalability. With thousands of users across the world, we need a reliable enterprise system, not just a departmental solution. Seagate Crystal Info's unique middle tier ensures that we can scale up to meet the demand from our users.

The web also provided Bankers Trust with an ideal way to distribute reports to remote users. Using Seagate Software's web technology and new Page-On-Demand feature in Seagate Crystal Info 6, Banker's Trust has seen a dramatic increase in performance as network traffic was reduced.

Ease of use of creating powerful reports in Seagate Crystal Info 6 was a final determining factors to Bankers Trust decision.

"Building reports should not be like building applications," concluded Ross. "It should be quick and ready to distribute. Seagate Software has learned from its customers how to build an intuitive system. What takes lines of code in other products, is a click of a button in Info. With Seagate
Software, we'll achieve our goal: to schedule and share over 100,000 reports a month worldwide by the year 2000."

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