Societe Generale won the National 2014 Cloud Computing Project special funds support

In order to implement the "Twelve-Five" national Strategic Emerging Industry Development Plan, "on the promotion of information consumption to expand domestic demand," a number of views to promote the development of cloud computing innovation in China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, Industry and Information Technology department, the Ministry of Science and Engineering decided to jointly Recommended by the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Societe Generale declared the "Financial cloud service platform for banking financial institutions to build and apply the project" in recent days through the national departments of assessment, into the national cloud computing projects, received 2014 National Cloud Computing project special funding support.

According to the project leader, Societe Generale business Department general manager Zheng Ninh, the project is to be built in two years to support 300 small and medium-sized financial institutions of science and technology output, wealth management, payment settlement and job support and other financial services demand, with independent intellectual property rights of the cloud computing platform system, the formation of a complete financial proprietary The total project investment plan is about RMB 220 million.

As early as 2005, Societe Generale in the industry pioneered the launch of interbank cooperation services, "silver platform" for the vast number of small and medium-sized financial institutions to provide a full range of products and services, the initial financial cloud services in the embryonic form. Among them, the technology management output service is an important part of the silver and Silver Platform service system. As at the end of June 2014, there were 228 financial institutions working with Societe Generale to establish a cooperative relationship between information systems and construction, including 90 online. At present, the bank has become one of the largest commercial bank system providers in China.

Facing the new competition pattern brought by Internet finance, the existing information system of small and medium-sized financial institutions will generally not meet the demand of new business development and innovation, but due to their own scale limitation and cost consideration, they are unwilling to bear the high cost of system construction, operation and maintenance, and huge operation management manpower costs, Therefore relies on the financial cloud service to become the majority medium and small financial institution's realistic choice. Societe Generale is keen to capture this market demand and business opportunities, in the past, based on the successful experience of scientific and technological output, further in-depth exploration, to create a cloud computing platform with independent intellectual property rights, to form a covering technology output, wealth management, payment settlement and job support in a number of areas such as financial cloud solutions In the banking industry has been actively applied, has formed a certain scale of users.

SocGen is looking forward to the realisation that the construction of financial informatization based on cloud computing is not a simple use of cloud computing infrastructure virtualization coupled with traditional financial applications, the combination of the two must be to solve the financial industry faced with the actual problems, improve the financial institutions operating management, service capabilities and even profitability as the goal, can play its real role. The bank's declaration of "Financial cloud service platform for banking financial institutions and application Promotion" project, through the construction of financial cloud services platform infrastructure, breakthroughs in heterogeneous virtualization, distributed mass storage, large-scale resource scheduling and management of cloud computing key technologies, construction services operations, service management, Develop deployment and operational management platform to solve key technical problems such as service metering, application development and automation deployment and integration, and build a sound financial cloud product platform.

The platform is built to provide customizable, scalable multi-tenant financial services are beneficial to improve the resource utilization of the financial Industry Data center, reduce the cost of system construction and management burden, help many small and medium-sized financial institutions to improve the fine management level, accelerate the pace of business development, and deal with the imminent challenge of interest rate marketization and financial de-media. At the same time, will also promote all kinds of financial products more efficient to the domestic three or four-line cities and the vast rural areas to transport, more widely meet the urban and rural financial needs.

"It will be a financial cloud service platform with the vast number of small and medium-sized financial institutions to build, share, and win together." "Zheng Ninh said.

Participating in the project planning and design of the information technology personnel, said that this cloud computing financial practice will not only "Pu-hui Finance" further expand the social significance, and because the platform will give priority to the application of domestic security and reliable hardware and software, or will become the High-quality software and hardware to ensure financial information security "model It has positive demonstrative significance for speeding up the nationalization of financial informatization.