Finacle Digital Banking Suite on IBM Power for Banks
Finacle and IBM Power aim to simplify the modernization journey for banks. With Finacle solutions on IBM Power, banks are able to meet evolving customer demands, regulatory changes, and market dynamics. IBM Power has been trusted by Finacle customers for their mission-critical banking workloads for over 20 years. These banks rely on the reliability, security, scalability, and performance that IBM Power offers. The support for Finacle Core Banking and surround applications like Digital Engagement Suite and Cash Management with Power11 extends the value the platform delivers with impactful features for modern banking like Zero Planned Downtime and AI acceleration. Note that Finacle Core Banking for all versions are supported on Power11 with AIX and surround applications including Digital Engagement Suite and Cash Management are supported with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift.
Total Coverage for Unprecedented Business Continuity
- 99.9999% availability1 minimizes unplanned downtime: near-perfect availability ensures your critical banking workloads are always accessible when you need them most, minimizing disruptions and lost productivity.
- Be a leader in core banking uptime with Zero Planned Downtime2: Ensure banking services are always available with no planned service disruptions. Enhance regulatory compliance and posture by installing critical security fixes quickly and seamlessly without disrupting core banking applications. Ensure near continuous application availability.
- Address cyber incidents with Quantum-enabled IT: <1 min guaranteed ransomware detection with automated response and recovery within minutes3,4 to minimize the impact and potential finacncial losses associated with cyber attacks.
- Based upon estimated average entire-system unplanned downtime for Power E1180 systems as calculated in the Power11 Processor-Based Systems RAS (see section: Enterprise Single Server Availability Standard)
- Based upon IBM internal testing of system upgrade scenarios; many (i.e. VIOS, hot plug adapters, I/O adapter FW, and concurrent system firmware updates) can be done in-place while some (i.e. non-concurrent system FW and HW maintenance) may require Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support.
- This guarantee of an alert in less then one minute. Remediation is in the form of drive replacement up to the cost of the Covered Product. Terms and conditions apply; full details can be found here. (Coming to IBMi in 4Q 2025, Roadmap for PowerVS)
- Recovery is defined as the time it takes to for a Safeguarded Copy to be available in the same Flash System or moved to another defined host server attached to that Flash System. Does not include host server recovery actions that are application dependent. Terms and conditions apply; full details can be found here.
Performance for the Most Demanding Workloads
- Improve Operational Efficiency & Lower TCO for Finacle Core Banking leveraging Full Stack enhancements for dedicated processor configurations with faster per core database throughput performance.
- Power E1150 delivers 55% improvement in per core database throughput performance with 25% better transaction response time compared to Power E9501.
- Based on IBM internal measurements for similar throughput of a commercial banking transactional database(OLTP) workload executing on 1xE1150 with 9 Power11 CPUs @ 3.5-4.2GHz compared 1xE950 with 14 Power9 CPUs @ 3.2-3.8GHz
Designed for AI and Advanced Workloads
- IBM Power is focused on enabling integration of core data and applications into AI workflows and business processes with a full stack solution, from on- and off-chip acceleration with MMA and IBM Spyre™.
- Simplify deployment and realize faster time to value by leveraging LPARs (dark cores or MES) while ensuring HW isolation between core data and AI with PowerVM.
- Enable higher throughput by performing AI inferencing next to core. banking and leveraging higher memory bandwidth and I/O throughput
- Achieve ESG goals by reducing the need for energy intensive GPU infrastructure.
Flexible Consumption for Sustainable and Efficient TCO
- Respond faster to business demands while using fewer resources and reducing carbon footprint.
- Boost agility and flexibility with dynamic scaling to meet changing demands and optimize costs through flexible consumption options.
- Enhance energy efficiency with 2x better performance per watt vs x861 and 28% better server efficiency with Energy-Efficient mode2.
- Based upon Quantitative Performance Index (QPI) data as of May 15, 2025, from IDC available at https://www.idc.com/about/qpi and utilization. IBM Power E1150 (4x30c Power11 at 3.0-4.1GHz) QPI of 241,000E versus HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200 (4x60-core Intel cores at 1.9GHz) QPI of 208,898 and utilizations of 75% for E1150 based on IBM Power Performance Utilization Guarantee and 40% for x86. Energy consumption is based on maximum input power: IBM Power E1050 with maximum power of 5,200 W HPE Compute Scale Up Server 3200 with maximum power of 4,740 W
- Based upon IBM measurements of performance per watt on servers comparing Maximum Performance Mode to Energy-Efficient Mode while running compute-, disk-, and memory-based workloads on Power11 systems with fully configured sockets and memory as follows: E1180 with
"We’re thrilled about the transformative value that IBM Power11 with Zero Planned Downtime delivers to our Finacle Core Banking customers. Harnessing Power11’s extreme automation, customers can perform platform maintenance without disrupting their core banking applications, ensuring near continuous application availability. This innovation enables our customers to match consumer demands for modern AI-first experiences while redefining the standard for system uptime.”
K R Venkatraman
VP, Head - Product Architecture
Infosys Finacle
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