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Accelerating Digital Transformation in Banking: A Case Study of anb and OutSystems

Technology Category
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
  • Robots - Wheeled Robots
Applicable Industries
  • Finance & Insurance
  • Retail
Applicable Functions
  • Product Research & Development
  • Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
  • Last Mile Delivery
  • Leasing Finance Automation
Services
  • System Integration
The Challenge
Established in 1979, anb is one of the largest banks in the Middle East, serving over two million customers with a comprehensive range of Retail, Commercial, and Investment banking services. Traditionally, the bank's customer experience involved face-to-face interaction via its numerous branches, sales centers, remittance centers, SME centers, and corporate branches. However, with the increasing demand for digital self-service and the Saudi Government’s sustainability agenda—“Saudi Vision 2030,” anb needed to invest in its digital channels. The bank needed to digitalize customer touchpoints to minimize the environmental impact caused by face-to-face banking and meet the increasing customer demand for digital services. The challenge was to speed up development, improve agility, deliver web and mobile applications, and enable continuous delivery.
About The Customer
anb is a leading bank in the Middle East, established by royal decree in 1979. It serves over two million customers, offering a comprehensive range of Retail, Commercial, and Investment banking services. The bank operates through a network of 136 branches, 10 sales centers, 83 remittance centers, 11 SME centers, and 4 corporate branches. However, in response to the increasing demand for digital services and the Saudi Government’s sustainability agenda, anb embarked on a digital transformation journey, investing in its digital channels to provide seamless, user-friendly digital experiences to its customers.
The Solution
To accelerate its digital transformation, anb selected OutSystems, a low-code application development platform. The bank aimed to provide customers with seamless, user-friendly digital experiences on web and mobile platforms. OutSystems was chosen for its ability to accelerate development, its enterprise-grade security, and scalability, ensuring anb could deliver and easily maintain finance-grade solutions. With OutSystems, anb’s developers could deliver all kinds of applications, including web, mobile, and back-end services, with a single skillset. The team delivered a wide variety of systems, including a mobile banking app, loan originations, SME loan originations, retail & corporate online account opening, IPO, and a financing credit engine.
Operational Impact
  • With OutSystems, anb found a high-performance low-code application development platform that was easy to implement, quick to learn, scalable, and secure. Over the past four years, the bank has used OutSystems to build all its digital systems, achieving award-winning results. The bank was able to launch a new digital loan origination process, a 100 percent digital mortgage approval process, and Saudi Market’s first SME digital loan application system. The bank also launched an award-winning mobile banking app, used by over one million customers. The Saudi Government selected anb to launch Aramco’s IPO, valued at 1.5 trillion dollars, and the bank delivered a digital platform to streamline the IPO subscription process. The bank also built its complete credit engine with OutSystems, customizing it to their needs and going live in just a month.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Loan origination process became three times faster, allowing anb to process loans in less than 24 hours, instead of three days or more.
  • Mortgage application process became 64 percent faster, reducing the approval process from 14 days to 5 days.
  • Launched Saudi Market’s first SME digital loan application system in less than three months.

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