Advanced Bank of Asia – Together We Innovate

Our Partner

Biplan Global is an IT solutions provider in Cambodia that was started in 2012, with extensive experience in IT and telecom industries, business-process analytics, evaluation and modelling.

As a Local IT solutions provider Biplan Global was engaged in the implementation of VMware vSphere, they were able to deliver implementation and support on the ground as well as being flexible and responsive to the customer’s needs
A trusted advisor, Biplan Global has helped ABA by continuing proactively to provide maintenance support for ABA’s data centre

The Story

With Advanced Bank of Asia, or ABA Bank’s, reinvention, its focus was to attract new customers via digital banking innovations. However, its strategy of developing a mobile app was thwarted by an inflexible IT infrastructure. Working with partner Biplan Global it was able to virtualize the hardware servers with VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Suite, and was able to launch the ABA Mobile app, enabling customers to transfer money and pay bills easily, and which has become the most popular free financial app in Cambodia.

Customer Name: Advanced Bank of Asia
Solutions Platform: Multi-Cloud
Country: Cambodia
Industry: Financial Services
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As a challenger bank, ABA aimed to be creative through innovation and technology.
With smartphone penetration skyrocketing and fintechs emerging, ABA planned to develop a mobile application
Its inflexible IT infrastructure became an obstacle to the lifecycle of an application

VMware™ vCloud Suite

Essential cloud management suites that combine automation and operations with lifecycle management

VMware vSphere

Bring the benefits of the cloud to on-premises workloads. vSphere supercharges performance, enhances operational efficiency, and accelerates innovation.

The bank deployed VMware vCloud Suite, which combines vSphere and VMware vRealize Suite, to deliver a self-service consumption layer, an automation framework and self-driving Day 2 operations, to increase IT agility and speed while reducing the cost of IT.

Reduction in maintenance costs and staff time. Previously 30 engineers were required to maintain the physical servers, now it only needs five.
Significant reduction in time to market. By provisioning new servers in minutes instead of days, the digital team can roll out new app features faster.
10-fold growth in individual accounts in the last five years due to popularity of the app.

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