Case Study
PostFinance
Overview Headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, PostFi nance is a full-service financial institute that serves 2.3 million customers via 2,500 post of fices and 28 service centers. All PostFinance’s business critical applications, including pay ment transaction applications, reside on Hewlett-Packard machines running OpenVMS. These core applications are accessed by us ers in multiple areas, such as customer service, back office, and sales. The company, a subsidiary of Swiss Post, wanted to improve the efficiency of its IT op eration. “We wanted to respond more flexibly to the demands of the market while also im proving the work processes of our 1,600 us ers,” said Fauzia Candrian, head of ZV IS GUI and Evaluations at PostFinance. T o that end, PostFinance modernized the GU