The technology refresh was crucial to the bank’s operations to ensure continuous maintenance and support from the vendors, as well as to improve the performance and scalability of its AS400 platform to support future business and operational growth.

The project included the upgrade of the AS400 servers, the operating system, data replication software, application lifecycle management software, infrastructure tools and enhancements to impacted business applications residing in AS400 platform to be compatible with the latest AS400 operating system.

Aristal was responsible for leading and managing the complex project which included the application, infrastructure, testing and deployment areas. The project went live successfully in Oct 2020 despite the challenges faced by project teams during the lockdown period due to the Covid 19 pandemic.