FCM is a Maltese bank specialising in savings and fixed term products. The bank is expanding rapidly and wanted to maximise the value it was able to extract from its existing back office solutions, to further improve customer relationships and make better and more-profitable business decisions.

Luke Calleja, FCM Financial Controller,explained that the banking industry in Malta is becoming more competitive and that banks will continue to face increasingly complex data analysis requirements. The bank chose SAP due to its superior solutions in the field of analytics and data management.

“FCM Bank takes a very innovative view to maximise the value it realises from its IT investment.  We needed aproven  BI platform able to give us real time insight into our business as well as satisfy the reporting requirements of our industry.  SAP BusinessObjects allows us to achieve this and more while at the same time minimising our IT overheads.”

The bank entrusted the deployment of the BI solution to Alert Solutions Ltd, a company that has been responsible for the deployment of similar BI setups in other local banks and financial institutions. “Alert Solutions is very experienced in this field, which gives us peace of mind that we will be able to extract maximum return on investment from this solution” said Mr Calleja.

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