The Challenge in the Banking Sector
Banks operate within an extremely complex technology ecosystem:
- Legacy mainframe systems that remain critical for core banking operations.
- Distributed environments and cloud migration, creating a hybrid IT landscape.
- Increasing regulatory pressure (Central Bank, GDPR/LGPD, SOX), requiring full traceability.
- Customer expectations for real-time responses — from instant payments to credit approvals in seconds.
Even after significant IT investments, many banks still rely on a mixed set of automation solutions, combining modern batch schedulers, custom scripts, and isolated monitoring tools. This leads to:
- Dependence on multiple solutions that are difficult to integrate.
- Constant need to maintain homegrown scripts and connectors.
- Partial, fragmented visibility into critical workflows.
- Slow reaction times to operational issues or business opportunities.
How Stonebranch Stands Out
| How Banks Operate Today | Stonebranch Approach |
| Advanced Batch Schedulers, but still tied to fixed processing windows and rigid dependencies | Real-time orchestration, triggered by events, reducing wait times and accelerating delivery |
| Homegrown scripts and manual connectors, creating high maintenance effort | Prebuilt connectors and native APIs, enabling seamless integration and lowering risk |
| Multiple tools to manage workloads across mainframe, cloud, ETL, APIs, and SaaS | Single unified platform, centralizing automation and simplifying governance |
| Basic monitoring and alerting, focused on job completion with limited predictive insight | Proactive observability, alerting before SLA breaches and enabling preventive action |
| Distributed governance, with audits requiring manual correlation of multiple logs | Built-in compliance, providing a unified audit trail to satisfy regulators |
| Manual, complex expansions when adding new applications or migrating workloads to the cloud | Dynamic scalability, with native support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments |
| IT teams overloaded with operational firefighting | IT freed up to focus on strategic initiatives like open banking, AI, and digital product innovation |
Direct Impact for Bank Executives
- Reduced operational risk: fewer failures, fewer regulatory fines, and improved customer experience.
- Increased business agility: faster delivery of new products and integrations — in weeks, not months.
- Executive-level governance: centralized dashboards with KPIs and SLA status.
- Financial efficiency: tool consolidation and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Future readiness: technology built for digital transformation, open finance, and AI adoption.