Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) embarked on a refresh of its enterprise architecture strategy with a goal of rationalizing applications and to reduce operational cost and improve time-to-market. The industry specificity and comprehensive definitions offered by the BIAN framework meant it was the obvious choice for delivering tangible value to the bank’s initiative.
As the largest Portuguese bank, CGD plays a central role in Portugal’s financial system, offering a wide range of banking services. CGD had an extensive estate spanning over 700 applications in its legacy systems. Leveraging CC&C Solutions’ specialist skills as BIAN subject matter experts, as well as tooling from Link Consulting, the team continues to conduct a thorough mapping exercise of application names, descriptions, and functionalities.
This is leading to a clear roadmap for change which reduces both costs and operational risks by identifying duplicated functionality and migrating workflows to a more streamlined and integrated architecture. This has been made possible through use of the BIAN Service Domain model, which provides the canvas against which all applications can be classified in a transparent and collaborative way.
Following a successful, on time and on budget first tranche of mapping, CGD is now planning a broader second phase, using a BIAN-driven methodology, to cover API specifications as well as applications.
“Tackling a project of this scope, in tranches that make sense for the business’s goals, might not have been possible without the underlying understanding provided by the BIAN Service Domain model” – Paulo Jorge Pereira, CGD Architecture Director
