1 About Suramericana Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank is one of the largest banking institutions in Israel with hundreds of branches and over 3,000 employees. The bank runs dozens of production databases and hundreds of development databases. The requirements outlined in Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as a lack of development best practices, presented Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank with the following challenges: ? Managing Production – The bank did not have a structured method for following and tracking the changes that were made in their databases (as it did in the application code). Thus, they were unable to gather the information regarding who made changes, when they were made, and why. ? Version Control

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