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Itaú Bank Case Study

Largest bank in South America chooses Piql

Itaú Unibanco is a major financial institution based in Brazil with over 5,000 branches in Latin America and 5,119 offices worldwide.

CHALLENGE Financial institutions have unique archival challenges managing both contemporary and historical content, in a variety of mediums and archival management sys tems. As one of the largest banks in the world, Itaú Uniban co had a number of data management challenges with data spread across separate systems and formats and with different protocols for digitally born content than for digitised or analogue content.

In the past, the bank has maintained a large archive of client information preserved on microfilm and micro fiche. This presented management challenges, for ex ample, as microfilm and microfiche must be carefully scanned, frame by frame, access is a slow and resource intensive access process. This decade old approach also posed risk to the data as reels were handled regularly exposing them to wear and tear.