Banks need flexible IT that delivers real time insights to enable innovation. To protect their market position, banks need the ability to gather and act on real time customer insights to drive innovation and reduce time to market. They also need to take advantage of new digital technologies such as blockchain, IoT and AI to develop new products and experiences. Drive Innovation with Better Access to New Technology Continued However, most established banks’ capability for innovation is constrained by their inflexible, centralised IT architectures, which keeps data in silos, limits timely collaboration with partners and slows the deployment of new technology.
Interconnection provides the IT flexibility needed to drive innovation. Enabling banks to: Improve collaboration and real time information sharing to drive faster innovation. By distributing core IT infrastructure to the network edge, interconnection brings banks closer to partners, to improve collaboration and reduce time to market for new products. Harvest and process customer data where it is generated to accelerate innovation. Interconnection means data and analytics can be located closer to customers so banks can gain real time intelligence of changing customer needs. Access new technologies required for innovation. Equinix interconnection hubs give banks access to an ecosystem of cloud, network and SaaS providers and on-demand access to IT resources and applications, to offer new digital capabilities.
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