Validata Group, the leading provider of Validata SAS, the first truly integrated Automation Lifecycle Management solution for the Banking and Finance Sector, is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) to provide its flagship Validata ATS for end-to-end automated testing for the bank’s upgrade project from Temenos T24™R08 to R13.
The model to be used will follow Validata’s proven QuickStart methodology, successfully deployed on a number of T24 sites already, which allows for a rapid development and implementation of VALIDATA ATS locally, including Validata Test Workbench and T24 Environment Comparison, all integrated. The QuickStart project structure produces a well documented and tightly managed business certification process that provides an immediate return on investment and a long term foundation for continuously expanding test coverage.
Validata ATS is part of Validata SAS, a central suite of integrated tools compatible with any platform, database, user interface (UI) and application program interface (API). It is focused on managing core application lifecycle activities from requirements and process management, through testing and configuration management. Doing this allows banks to encourage best practice by capturing and reusing project assets and process knowledge.
Validata ATS is designed to validate the various configurations across the complete TEMENOS T24™ software stack from Core to Country Model Bank, ISB and Local code and support continuous delivery. It enables end-to-end testing from front office applications with Desktop, Web and mobile UIs to backend processes and operations. It also integrates with both Business and IT tools and repositories without taking customers to rigid platforms, and providing end-to-end traceability, dashboards and reporting.
Vaios Vaitsis, CEO and Founder of Validata Group commented, “We strongly believe that our innovative approach to delivering testing in the Banking market space delivers unrivalled benefits to our clients not just at the time of engagement but long into their future usage of the applications used for covering the business. We have already made significant strides to secure more of a presence in the region and having KCB as a customer helps us deliver against our strategy for this region. We look forward to working with KCB moving forward and in helping the company deliver real, measurable return on its IT investment."
Charles Karuga, Ag CIO at KCB added, “We are very happy to have Validata partner with us as we move to upgrade our Core Banking System. The benefits to be derived from the robust end to end testing of applications, processes and operations will add value to KCB in minimizing time taken to test systems as well as reduce incidents of reworks and downtime”
About Validata
Validata Group is the leading provider of Validata the first truly integrated Automation Lifecycle Management solution for the Banking and Finance Sector. Validata SAS is a central platform of integrated tools, agnostic of any software, database, UI and APIs designed to validate Core Banking Systems, aligns testing to business processes and/or requirements whilst improving productivity and automation coverage, achieving reduced test cycle times in all phases of testing and enhanced ROI.
Unlike traditional tools where the underlying technical details of tests are not clearly partitioned from the business intent of tests, Validata SAS has a clear division between technical detail and high level business flow modeling which makes the delivery of reusable automated test suites and its maintenance an inexpensive and simple task.
The company is a Temenos partner since 2005, Global Testing Partner since 2008. It is the only Certified Temenos Partner on all three Validata product suites for Testing, Legacy Migration and Build & Configuration Management.
Validata Group has offices in Athens, Sofia, London, Dubai, Mexico, Thailand and Cyprus. For more information visit www.validata-software.com
About Kenya Commercial Bank
KCB is the largest local Bank in East Africa, with growing market shares in Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The Bank is also cross-listed in the regional borses including in Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), Uganda Stock Exchange (USE) and Rwanda Over the Counter Exchange.
In over 117 years of its operation the Bank has been a frontrunner in embracing technology and innovation in its operations. This has enabled the bank to roll out; KCB Contact Centre, KCB Mobile Banking, KCB Intelligent ATM, One-branch-banking network, KCB Agency banking, KCB-Postal Corporation partnership, KCB Diaspora banking, KCB Pesapoint partnership, KCB Account Based Money Transfer Services (ABMT) with Western Union, New-look KCB Group website, KCB I-Bank, and KCB M-Benki.