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_la force de l’engagement MC
An informal Report
IT Performance Management in a Financial Crisis
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Index
• Historical causes of the Argentinean financial crisis• IT situation at the Bank• The crisis starts• Impact of the crisis on the transactional channels• The “solution” to the crisis• Financial impact of the “solution”• Impact of the “solution” on software development• Long duration impact on the country and the bank• Lessons learned
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CGI – Some facts
Founded in 1976
31,000 professionals
125+ offices worldwide
2010 revenue $3.7 billion
Backlog $13.3 billion
Founded in 1976
31,000 professionals
125+ offices worldwide
2010 revenue $3.7 billion
Backlog $13.3 billion
One of the largest pure play IT/BPO services firms
• 1st in Canada• 4th in North America• 7th in the world among firms with client proximity
presence
One of the top global outsourcing firms• Among the top 10 IT/BPO providers within the Global
Outsourcing 100 ranking
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Argentina in the world
Argentina USA Canada
Area 1M 3.8M 3.9M
Pop. 36M 310M 31M
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Economic evolution of Argentina
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Causes of the poor economic growth
• Protectionist policies• Populist governments
• Commercial deficit• Fiscal deficit
• Inflation• Public debt
Commercial deficit Fiscal deficit
Inflation&
Public debt
Protectionist policies&
Populist governments
Political
Instability
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Inflation & hyperinflation
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Growth & Unemployment in the 90s
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1980 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
% GDP per capita % Unemployment
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Situation at the Bank (2001)
• From 40 to 130 branches• From 1500 to 4,000 employees• From 300,000 to 900,000 accounts
• Mainframe• 30 AIX servers• 300 Windows servers
• Transactional channels• Human tellers• ATMs• Call Center• Internet
• A Capacity planning and performance process in place and working
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Chronology of the crisis
• 30/11/01 : A run on the banks begins, with the central bank reserves falling by $2 billion.
• 01/12/01 : The government imposes a $1,000 per month limitation on personal bank withdrawals in cash. Checks and electronic transfers go up.
• New Year’s Eve party, the president told us that “this will be a hard year”.
• The Internet traffic and the call center calls suddenly skyrocketed. ATMs became empty in a matter of hours.
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Internet transactions
•The number of concurrent user increased 5 to 6 times from one day to the other.
•We proceeded to change the architecture of the main page of the bank to reduce the workload in the system, but it was only a partial solution.
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Internet infrastructure
Internet
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Call center
•The talk time increased
•People don’t like to talk with machines when in a crisis
•Having young call center operators is cheap, but it could backfire
•Having call center operators abroad is probably inconvenient
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The trick of the withdrawal limit
Bank 1
Bank 2
Bank 3
Bank 1
Bank 2
Bank 3
Interchange bank
system
The system became saturated
The checks clearing took more time than the allowed legal period
The number of bank accounts exploded, branches started to open Saturdays to cope
with the demand
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Mainframe – The perfect Storm
There weren’t enough resources for the on-line
The branches workedin extended mode
The nocturnal batch process took more
Than 24hs
The Perfect
Storm
There wasn’t an easy way to increase the capacity
There wasn’t hardware available to increase it
All the banks had the same problem
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Chronology of the crisis
• 30/11/01 : A run on the banks begins, with the central bank reserves falling by $2 billion.
• 01/12/01 : The government imposes a $1,000 per month limitation on personal bank withdrawals in cash. Checks and electronic transfers go up.
• 20/12/01 : A riot leaves 28 people dead, the president has to resign. The two subsequent presidents last only days. Several supermarkets are looted. Argentina declares itself in default.
• 02/01/02 : President Duhalde takes office. • 06/01/02 : The “solution” is approved by the
Congress.
• New Year’s Eve party, the president told us that “this will be a hard year”.
• The Internet traffic and the call center calls suddenly skyrocketed. ATMs became empty in a matter of hours. The IT infrastructure collapses under the workload.
• The software development team starts to work to adapt the systems to the “solution”
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The solution
• Default on the national debt. The country declares itself in bankruptcy.
• End of the dollar as a legal currency in Argentina.
• The old parity 1 dollar = 1 peso became 1 dollar = 3 pesos.
• The mortgages are converted to a 1 = 1 parity.
• All the bonds that the banks and the persons held became “junk bonds” with 0 value.
• All the bank accounts in dollars had to be converted to pesos, the same with mortgages and investments.
• All dollar investments lose 66% of their value.
• Most of the bank assets are reduced to 33%, all the banks are technically broken.
But, didn’t all this mess help protect the financial system from becoming insolvent?
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The people were not happy with the solution…
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Working in the Solution
• Modify or replace almost all the core programs of the bank.• Checks, mortgages, savings accounts.• General Ledger, financial reports• Transactional channels (web, IVRs)
• New programs like the system to manage the legal claims of those people which were on “especial situations” were made to extract more money that the central bank allowed
• Everything had to be done in a question of days.
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How they worked in the Solution
• There were only 3 environments :• unitary test • integration test• production
• The tests were reduced to their bare bones.• The emphasis was on the communication not in the
documentation.• The development teams were all on the same floor.• The technical support team was 2 floors below.• The operations people that had to interpret the Central Bank measures
were there. • Everybody understood the importance of what they were doing.
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Long duration impact in the bank
1992 2001 2003
Branches 40 130 60
Empl. 1500 4000 2000
Accounts 300,000 900,000 700,000
Hw = ↑ Outsourced
Sw = ↑ Opportunity
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Long duration impact in the country
• -11% GDP in 2002 alone (the 2008 financial crisis in US was a - 3.8%)
• 40% inflation in 2002
• 20% of unemployment
• 63% of families below the line of poverty
• 20% of families without enough money to buy food
• The emigration rate multiplied by 6 in 2 years• Larger between university graduates and post-graduates
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Can it happen to you? Can it happen now?
YES
The IQ of the governments doesn’t look like it has improved in the last years
The financial system is more and more dependent on IT
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But in 10 years it should have new solutions…
YES, and new problems…
The mainframe has reserve capacity like CPUs that can be activated on demand
Cloud computing could also help…
But the providers of these services could have an attitude of “pay now, use later”
If the cloud is shared by companies of the same market (e.g. banks), and the cloud is in the same geographical place it could
become saturated
What will be the impact on new technologies like smartphones?
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Not two financial crisis are equal but…
• Liquidity crisis (bank run)• A large number of customers withdraw their deposit
believing that the bank will fail, and in that way causes the failure.
• Nationalisations and quasi-nationalisations of banks, but banks don’t fail
• Short lived but source of “recessions”• More time to change the system
• Banking panics• The crisis affects many banks• The run take some time to settle but the recession takes
years• Generates changes in the banking system
• Systemic banking crises• Great Depression & Argentine economic crisis• Generalized failure of banks; all the capital of the financial
system is wiped out• The crisis take months to develop
• Constant change of regulations.
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Lessons learned
The possibility of a financial crisis has to be part of the IT contingency plan
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Always have a plan “B”
“Plan B” for the rescue effort of the Chilean trapped miners
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Document the way that performance can be improved
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Design infrastructures as flexible as possible
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Never underestimate “ad-hoc” solutions
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Keep an eye on your team’s morale
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Be prepared to throw everything you know out of the nearest window
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Don’t worry about what top management thinks
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SCCMG 2011