1. finance
2. bank

CUSTOMER PROFILE
COMPASS BANK
Compass Bank drastically reduces processing time
on heavy data loads thanks to inUnison’s unifyALM,
a fully automated lifecycle solution that scales to
enhance performance under large data volumes.
BUSINESS / OBJECTIVE / SOLUTION / ACHIEVEMENTS
CUSTOMER PROFILE
PROFILE
Compass Bank operates nearly 700 branches in America’s Sunbelt region under the trade name BBVA Compass.
BBVA Compass is one of the top 25 largest U.S. commercial banks and is ranked among the largest banks in Alabama,
Texas and Arizona. Its diversified business is geared toward high-growth markets and relies on technology as a key
sustainable competitive advantage.
OBJECTIVE
Compass required an Application Lifecycle Management solution that could perform efficiently under heavy data
loads. It was crucial for the system to be able to scale to accommodate over 400 applications and handle large
volumes of information without issues. Compass Bank’s existing solution was taking between 15 and 18 hours to
process and was ultimately deemed insufficient for the business’ needs. Additionally, the company needed a solution
that would enable them to have full traceability of artifacts and applications; according to Benje Evans, Configuration
Management Manager, “there was no single place that we could go get the end to end picture of change requests,
exception work, testing, sign offs by the various people that had to sign off, turnover in the change control meetings
or the scheduling or resource conflict issues that were resolved through to production and in post-production
implementation”
“There was no single place where we could see
the end to end picture.”
Benje Evans, Configuration Management Manager
SOLUTION
After requesting a proof of concept to ensure their new ALM solution could in fact scale to handle their 400+ crucial
applications, Compass Bank chose unifyALM because of its “flexibility, capability, scalability, the robust features of the
toolset, and the ability to build a flexible repeatable workflow that we could template and use as a starting point for
other applications and not have to totally rebuild a workflow for every application,” said Benje.
The inUnison team implemented a highly scalable enterprise ALM 2.0 solution, unifyALM, which is now providing
the orchestration for Compass’ enterprise release management and deployment management processes. unifyALM
control forms have been created to control how binaries are built and deployed to servers for all distributed
applications. The administrators are able to use this customized front end to manage all builds/deployments in an
efficient, automated fashion, with all build results captured back to unifyALM for full workflow traceability at any stage
- from requirements to source, binary or deployment.
“We needed flexibility, capability, scalability,
the robust features of the toolset, and the
ability to build a flexible repeatable workflow.”
Benje Evans, Configuration Management Manager
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“We can, by any measurable means, look at the number of emergencies and the number of issues and outages we
had and see that we gained greater control, more governance, more insight, and a more accurate picture of the things
that are moving. We moved to an environment where we have more automated deploys and less manual hands on
involvement and we see the number of outages and incidents decreasing, and total time of outages trending lower
and lower as we gain better control over our environment.”
“We see the number of outages and incidents decreasing,
and total time of outages trending lower and lower as we
gain better control over our environment.”
Benje Evans, Configuration Management Manager
Benje and his team are very satisfied with the final result: “Our internal customers like the inUnison tools much better
than what we were using previously,” Benje said, “my team likes it a lot better to use the workload on and they are
eager for the day that we can have the last of the applications migrated out of the other two open systems control
tools and strictly have everything in the inUnison solution.”
ACHIEVEMENTS
This project was successfully delivered and exceeded all the client’s requirements. unifyALM offered “integrations,
flexibility, scalability, the versatile robust lifecycle that we needed in order to build the real world thing that we had
created on our whiteboard.”
unifyALM provides Compass bank with the powerful, efficient technology it needs to keep its competitive edge by
delivering
• Fully automated lifecycles which are deeply integrated with existing CA Harvest SCM software allowing ease of use
• A comprehensive system provides orchestration, business rules and forms for tracking all changes moving through
the lifecycle which are then bundled into efficient releases
• The ability to schedule automated moves through the lifecycle for both releases and individual work items as
required, freeing time and resources for other tasks
• Powerful data processing executed in less than 15 minutes, equating to a 5900% improvement in processing time
CONTACT US
For more information or to request a demo, contact us at:
www.inunison.com
[email protected]
Office: +1-866-866-0057
Fax: +1-250-984-0709
HQ: PO Box 8464, 709 Yates Street, Victoria BC, V8W3S1
DISCLAIMER: This document is produced solely by inUnison and is not an official BBVA Compass Bank release.
Image credit: “Blue Suitcase” is copyright © 2012 Franck Blais (https://www.flickr.com/photos/66971402@N04/) and
made available under an Attribution-Noncommercial Share Alike 2.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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