Bendigo and Adelaide Bank wins award for transformation

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has been announced as the winner of the 2023 MongoDB APAC Innovation Award in the Organisational Transformation category, recognising the bank’s innovative way of using data to drive new efficiencies.

The organisation has been on a multi-year journey of transformation using MongoDB’s cloud database service, Atlas, to build new capabilities, reduce complexity, uncover efficiencies and deliver a better customer experience.

Recently, Bendigo Bank’s cloud team launched Ready-Set-MongoDB (RSM). This event-driven framework allows developers to streamline processes and apply data transformations, leading to faster and improved outcomes.

These improvements allow the technology team to identify cost savings and save time as the initiative automates projects that would normally need to be done manually.

Andrew Cresp, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s Chief Information Officer, is pleased with the early results the team has produced with the assistance of RSM and MongoDB.

“We needed a database that was great for developers to work with, was inherently scalable, had great operational tooling and, of course, had best-in-class security and privacy features,” he said.

Within the first 18 months of launching these programs, the automation had saved the organisation more than 1100 days of work for developers. It also helped reduce human involvement, removed stale data, and allowed engineers to focus on the things that matter.

Matt Vermeer, Cloud Platforms Services Owner at Bendigo Bank, was on the ground for the rollout of the project and can’t wait to see what more it can do for the business.

“It’s fantastic to see the team be recognised for this work and it has already made such a difference to how the team operates. There’s so much capability and we can’t wait to build on it even more,” Vermeer said.

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