PARIS, April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) and Boursorama, a subsidiary of Société Générale group, today
renewed their agreement by signing a hybrid cloud contract for five
years to help enrich the bank's offerings of new products and
services.
Boursorama is a pioneer and leader in online brokerage, Internet
financial information and, since 2005, online banking. Designated
the least expensive bank in France
for eleven years, Boursorama pushes the borders to simplify the
lives of its customers at the best price and with the best quality
of service, according to Boursorama reports. Thus, in 2018,
Boursorama reports attracting a new customer every 50 seconds and
now has more than 1.7 million customers.
Today, Boursorama extends its original 2014 infrastructure
agreement with IBM to reinforce growth and a high level of
availability and security supporting its operations and compliance
with regulatory requirements, especially from the European Central
Bank. As part of the agreement announced today, Boursorama will be
able to use new IBM Cloud services for its banking business.
Boursorama has chosen IBM Cloud for:
- Its resilience, allowing it to continue to provide the best
service to its ever-increasing number of customers - since 2016,
the number has doubled to reach 1.7 million - day or night, every
day of the week
- The use of a cloud infrastructure which positions Boursorama to
constantly enrich its offer with new products and services,
including: everyday banking, loans (real estate, consumer, Lombard,
renewable), precautionary savings, life insurance and the stock
market. Today, Boursorama Banque offers a catalog of 827 free
features to help simplify the lives of its customers on a daily
basis
- Its Hybrid Cloud catalog including SaaS and PaaS, allowing them
to dynamically respond to business innovations at the service of
customers
- Enhanced Cybersecurity services on Web servers to help prevent
denial of service attacks, complemented by the expertise of the IBM
X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team who
can assist the customer to deal with a cybersecurity incident by
helping them prepare and implement a remediation plan.
"IBM's secure hybrid cloud offering, as well as the security
services around Web platforms, are designed to be real innovation
assets for our customers in the context of their digital
transformation, especially in the banking world subject to the
ECB's regulatory requirements," says Béatrice Kosowski,
General Manager, Global Technology Services, IBM France.
"We are very proud to continue to support Boursorama in its
growth and conquest of new markets."
"The hosting of a large part of our IS on IBM Cloud solutions
allows us to continue our development on proven technological
infrastructures capable of responding to the strong growth of
Boursorama," declares Benoit
Grisoni, CEO of Boursorama. "By also using public
cloud solutions, we will simultaneously seek to optimize our costs
and offer more and more innovative services to our
customers."
IBM and Boursorama signed this transaction in Q1, 2019.
About IBM Cloud
With $19.5B in annual cloud revenue, IBM is the global
leader in enterprise cloud with a platform designed to meet the
evolving needs of business and society. Moving past productivity
and cost improvements, the IBM Cloud is tuned for the AI and data
demands that are driving true differentiation in today's
enterprise. IBM's private, public and hybrid offerings provide the
global scale businesses need to support innovation across
industries.
For more information about IBM Cloud:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/
About IBM Security
IBM Security offers one of the most
advanced and integrated portfolios of enterprise security products
and services. The portfolio, supported by world-renowned IBM
X-Force® research, enables organizations to effectively manage risk
and defend against emerging threats. IBM operates one of the
world's broadest security research, development and delivery
organizations, monitors 70 billion security events per day in more
than 130 countries, and has been granted more than 10,000 security
patents worldwide. For more information, please
check www.ibm.com/security, follow @IBMSecurity on Twitter or visit
the IBM Security Intelligence blog.
About Boursorama
Boursorama, a subsidiary of Société
Générale, is a pioneer and leader in its three main activities:
online banking, online brokerage and Internet financial
information. For 20 years, Boursorama's promise has remained the
same: to simplify the lives of its customers at the best price and
with the highest quality of service.
With a development focused on new customer expectations,
simplicity and efficiency, but also safety and reduced costs,
Boursorama consolidates its position as a major banking player in
France every year.
The least expensive bank in France for ten years, has doubled its number
of customers since the beginning of 2016 and now has more than 1.7
million, while maintaining its high recommendation rate (90%).
Accessible to all without any income or wealth conditions,
Boursorama interests an increasingly large population, from the
Kador offer for 12-18 year olds to Boursorama Pro for individual
entrepreneurs. A wide range of products and services meet the
banking needs of customers: day-to-day banking, credit (real
estate, consumer credit, Lombard, renewable), precautionary
savings, life insurance and stock market, insurance. Today,
Boursorama Banque offers a catalogue of 827 functionalities to
simplify the daily lives of its clients, relying in particular on
new technologies. To discover all the Boursorama Banque offer,
click here.
Boursorama is also an online portal, www.boursorama.com.
Launched 20 years ago, it is ranked as the number one national
online financial and economic information site with more than 25
million visits each month (Source ACPM 2018).
A socially committed and environmentally responsible employer,
Boursorama has 800 employees based in Boulogne-Billancourt (92) and
Nancy (54).
Find Boursorama's news on the website:
http://groupe.boursorama.fr
Boursorama LinkedIn Page
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