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Lean Isn’t Always Lean: There Are Lean Cores And Lean Cores In Banking

Forrester IT

A few days ago, I discussed application architecture in banking with a banking software vendor. Starting from there, we had a look at that vendor’s core banking solutions and further back-end systems such as trade finance. Now, you may ask […].

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Customer Centricity And Personalization In Banking Need Product Externalization

Forrester IT

Application architectures in banks cannot afford to treat product-centricity as a stepchild, but need to focus on it as much as on customer-centricity. Product externalization helps banks move in this direction.

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Forrester’s 2021 Financial Services Architecture Survey Needs Your Input

Forrester IT

Banks and other financial services firms always ask: “What are the others doing?” They leverage the answer to this question to assess their overall strategic position, compare their key challenges with those of others, and plan for the transformation of their application landscape to a more powerful customer-centric approach.

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Success Of New-School Vendors Shows That Lean Core Banking Is Finally Here

Forrester IT

Modern banking platforms allow banks to elevate their customer experience and deliver more business value more seamlessly and more effectively. Banks and their technology teams can leverage market dynamics to make digital transformation more feasible both architecturally and economically.

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Banking Functionality Doesn’t Differentiate Banking Software Anymore, But Technology And Ecosystems Do

Forrester IT

Functionality in retail and corporate banking is not highly differentiating anymore. In the future, only those that can support partner solutions in their ecosystem seamlessly can fully cope with banking industry's expanding requirements.

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Banking Software Vendors Won’t Differentiate With Just Functionality For Long

Forrester IT

A few days ago, Forrester published two Forrester Waves, one focusing on retail banking, the other on corporate banking. With these Forrester Waves, we separated off-the-shelf banking back ends for retail and corporate banking for the first time.

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To Replace Or Not To Replace Core Banking Systems Is Not The Question

Forrester IT

Banks don't need new core banking systems, they need new paradigms to deliver core banking capabilities - and they need them today or tomorrow.

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