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74 BayernLB – our company
} Shared system
house for Bavarian
Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe
to be
implemented step
by step
by 3.5 percent to almost 830,000 cards. The 2004 transaction volume was EUR 4.17 bil-
lion. BayernLB has a 4.2 percent market share of the German credit card business in
terms of number of cards, while its share is 12.1 percent when measured in terms of
transaction volume.
Information technology
The 2004 joint “IT Bayern” project represents another important step in the coopera-
tion of Bavarian savings banks and BayernLB with its dependent institutions Bayerische
Landesbausparkasse (LBS) and Bayerische Landesbodenkreditanstalt. The aim is to
bundle the information technology of the companies involved into IZB SOFT in order to
create a shared system house. The necessary legal and organisational requirements for
IT bundling will have been met by mid-2005. The next stage involves the step-by-step
transfer of systems and applications. This process takes into consideration the needs of
day-to-day business and projects to be implemented.
As computer services provider, Informatik-Zentrum München-Frankfurt am Main GmbH
& Co. KG is responsible for the provision and operation of large computer systems,
client / server systems and telecommunications technology. The company was founded
in 1993 by the Bavarian savings banks and BayernLB with the aim of sharing computer
resources. Since 2001 Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) also holds a stake.
Foreign entities
The optimisation of BayernLB’s foreign entities, initiated in 2003, is being further
pursued.
At the beginning of 2004, as part of the restructuring of the Corporate Services Divi-
sion, the back office and IT units of the foreign entities were subsumed into the Inter-
national Corporate Services Division under joint management.
This allowed efficient control and coordination of day-to-day operations. Furthermore,
it created the necessary processes for implementing change.
The structures and sizes of the Corporate Services units abroad are rapidly being har-
monised with the new business model. Here, the focus is on the standardisation and
extensive centralisation of processes and IT systems in line with BayernLB’s strategic
orientation.
General services
The Shared Services Division provides general administrative and operational services.
This division initiates, carries out and manages outsourcing plans within its sphere of
responsibility. This, together with the identification of potential outsourcing targets,
aims to create lasting positive economic effects for BayernLB. So far, the companies BLB
Bankett Gastronomie GmbH, LB Corporate Services GmbH and Bayern Facility Manage-
ment GmbH (BayernFM) have been launched onto the market.