[March 05, 2014]

Suruga Bank Launches Next Generation Platform Developed by Accenture to Deliver More Personalized Products and Services to its Customers

Suruga Bank, a leading regional Japanese bank, has launched a strategic information platform that Accenture (News - Alert) (NYSE: ACN) helped build to further personalize and customize the products and services the bank offers to its customers.

The new platform enhances Suruga Bank's delivery of relevant and timely financial products to customers through sophisticated analysis of customer characteristics, behavioral interests and life events. It is designed to continuously adapt to new inputs in customer activity, and complements Suruga Bank's mission to provide personalized services to its clients. It may also help the regional bank, which is based in Shizuoka Prefecture, expand its business across Japan into new markets.

"The platform improves our ability to truly respond to our customers' needs and preferences by helping us customize their financial products and services," said Yoshihiro Okazaki, senior managing executive officer, customer support division, Suruga Bank. "Furthermore, it strengthens our bank's role as a life and business concierge for our customers. Suruga Bank has a long history of outstanding customer service and this platform strengthens that capability."

The bank's new platform, which was built by Accenture, provides more flexible customer insight capabilities by linking the bank's customer relationship management application with the data warehoue from Teradata, analytics functions provided by SAS (News - Alert) and a dashboard provided by MicroStrategy. By applying Accenture's operational architecture, the platform will help reduce the bank's IT maintenance costs and give the bank more flexibility to handle increasing mobile banking volumes and to link to other systems.

"Retail banking is becoming increasingly important to the Japanese financial services industry," said Kentaro Mori, a managing director in Accenture's Financial Services operating group in Japan. "The rollout of this platform comes at a time when digital is fundamentally changing the way organizations operate and interact with customers. It presents a great opportunity for the bank by moving from a one-size-fits-all approach to more individualized and customized services. Based on our deep industry knowledge and long-standing analytics and systems development expertise, provided through Accenture Analytics, we continue to provide new and innovative solutions to financial institutions that are looking to transform and achieve new competitive advantages."

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 281,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital, delivers insight-driven outcomes at scale to help organizations improve their performance. With deep industry, functional, business process and technical experience, Accenture Analytics develops innovative consulting and outsourcing services for clients to help ensure they receive returns on their analytics investments. For more information follow us @ISpeakAnalytics and visit www.accenture.com/analytics.

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