Royal Bank of Scotland Powers Open Experience with Red Hat Mobile, Container and Cloud Technologies
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform and OpenShift Enterprise at core
of new innovation and entrepreneurship technology solutions center
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Royal Bank of Scotland is powering its
new Open Experience center with Red Hat technologies, including the Red
Hat Mobile Application Platform and OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat's
web-scale container application platform.
Open
Experience is a technology solutions center launched by Royal Bank
of Scotland in February 2016 at its headquarters in Edinburgh, U.K., to
pursue innovative new technologies for the bank and its customers. Not
only a physical space, Open Experience represents a new way of thinking
to help Royal Bank of Scotland develop innovative products and services
within a framework that promotes closer, more collaborative work between
colleagues, businesses, and customers.
The Open Experience’s team of experts is working with financial
technology companies to develop new ideas and grow them into customer
pilots, as well as searching for emerging trends and technologies around
the globe.
The Open Experience center sits alongside the bank's Entrepreneurial
Spark business accelerator hub, which includes a 'Hatchery' for
early stage startups and a 'Nest' for high growth businesses, giving the
accelerator's participants access to Open Experience’s technologies and
innovations. Since it launched in 2011, the Entrepreneurial Spark
accelerator has supported more than 660 businesses.
Using OpenShift, Red Hat's award-winning container-based application
platform, the bank's Open Experience developers can more quickly
develop, host, and scale applications in a cloud environment.
OpenShift’s elastic, multi-language, container and Kubernetes-based
architecture automates the provisioning, management and scaling of
applications, so developers can focus on writing the application code
for their business, startup or next big idea. OpenShift’s support for
multiple languages and frameworks, databases and development tools,
offer a lower barrier to entry, so developers can start their project
more easily and start coding faster, using the languages and tools they
already know and prefer.
Mobile is foundational to enabling digital transformation and innovation
in the modern enterprise because of its capability to profoundly change
business models, processes, and the customer experience. The security
and integration of back-end data for mobile apps should be of the utmost
priority, and mobile application platforms can be an integral component
for efficient development and deployment of back-end services for mobile
applications. Red Hat Mobile Application Platform provides participants
with award-winning technology designed to simplify the development,
integration, deployment, and management of mobile solutions.
Royal Bank of Scotland anticipates expanding its relationship with Red
Hat to bring additional technologies from the open source leader
available to Open Experience in the future.
Supporting Quotes
Craig Muzilla, senior vice president, Application Platforms Business
Group, Red Hat
“Innovation and community have long been hallmarks of open source, and
we have seen firsthand the power of creating technology the open source
way. We laud Royal Bank of Scotland's commitment to creating an open
environment where innovation can thrive, and are honored to play a part
in helping launch the next generation of ideas into the marketplace.”
Richard Crook, head of innovation engineering, Royal Bank of Scotland
“With Open Experience we spike, challenge and dream. We are makers,
thinkers, and builders. We are pleased to be collaborating with Red Hat
to provide an innovation platform for our innovation engineers. The use
of Red Hat Mobile Application Platform and OpenShift Enterprise enables
us to maximize the chances of our best ideas reaching the hands of our
customers.”
Simon Johnson, head of infrastructure strategy and architecture,
Royal Bank of Scotland
“By leveraging Red Hat’s OpenShift and mobile software we were able to
help support the Open Experience. The infrastructure spike we ran,
supported by Red Hat, was critical in helping to build our innovation
platform for Open Experience.”
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About Royal Bank of Scotland
RBS is a UK-based banking and financial services company, headquartered
in Edinburgh.
RBS provides a wide range of products and services to personal,
commercial and large corporate and institutional customers through its
two main subsidiaries, The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest, as well
as through a number of other well-known brands including Ulster Bank and
Coutts.
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