More than ever, digital services often stand centre-stage when customers interact with their bank. As a result, both front and back office business processes must transform to keep pace with the rapidly-changing digital landscape. As a result of the collaboration, CREALOGIX and IBM will now offer new consulting services, as well tools to help banks implement and operate digital financial services.

Backed by the IBM Cloud, CREALOGIX will deliver standardised SaaS solutions tailored to regulated requirements and help ensure that innovative technologies can be integrated into digital banking at any time, regardless of the provider, thanks to open interfaces. As a next step, CREALOGIX intends to join the Financial Services Cloud of IBM in order to integrate even better into customer's IT and offer added value to seamless processes.

"This is more than just a partnership," explains Thomas Hager, Vice President Banking and Financial Markets EMEA from IBM, "we are positioning financial service providers into the digital banking of the future, and we will leverage CREALOGIX's many years of expertise in digital and mobile banking to offer our customers added value with our Global Business Services. Initial talks with customers have shown that they see value in the cooperation; it will provide them with a complete range of services from a single source. Our IBM Financial Service Cloud is built for financial services industries with a sophisticated policy framework. We are now rolling out the joint proposition globally.”

With a total of 150 years of experience between them, two industry leaders in the banking industry are helping their customers take advantage of the latest developments in user experience design, innovation and cloud technologies.

"We are delighted to announce the strategic partnership with IBM. We will offer together some of our key products such as Financial Advisory Workbench and our innovative Digital Banking Portal - available as a cloud solution. We will also offer fully integrated solutions jointly," says Oliver Weber, CEO of CREALOGIX.