with in taking over the 10 year old software
code from India. Even though the code was
in reasonable shape, there is always room
for improve­ment when a number of different
developers have maintained it.
One of the first things needed was to move
the code into the standard development
environment used by Seavus. This included
moving from Apache Ant to Apache Maven.
The second step was to write scripts for unit
testing so they could start reshaping the code
without changing functionality.
Member presentations
There is a strong interest in learning how
others are doing things and we were happy
to have presentations from 3 members on IT
Audit, Infrastructure and Contingency.
IT Audit and Security
A member of the Eurogiro Security Group,
Marian Illovsky, gave a presentation on how
Postova Banka, Slovakia, is using ISO27000
as the base for their Information Security
Management System and how they are
conducting audits.
Infrastructure
Shri Gaurav Mehta, of India Post, presented
the new core banking initiatives and the
money order services, including remittance
services. With its 155,000 post offices, of
which 135,000 are in rural areas, it is a chal-
lenge to IT to enable the delivery of financial
and retail services in the last mile.
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Software takeover
It only took 2 months to migrate from the
previous vendor to Seavus. Seavus gave a
presentation on the issues they had dealt
Technical User Group meeting 2013 in Copenhagen
The annual Eurogiro meeting for IT-managers – the TUG – celebrated the company’s 20-year
anniversary. At the meeting, we presented our new supplier for software development
The 20-year anniversary was a good op-
portunity to look back at the technological
develop­ments in Eurogiro. Starting with the
first generation of the appli­cation developed
in COBOL and supported on a single plat-
form, to the java based applications of today
supported on literally any platform. From
X.25 network technology, to Internet support,
MPLS and SWIFTNet.
New software vendor
Eurogiro has selected Seavus as our supplier
for software development - as described in
the February issue of the Newsletter. The
TUG was an excellent opportunity to present
the new developers and for our members to
meet and discuss software-related issues.
The TUG is about the members and the Community
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Unit testing
Postova Banka is using the PDCA model
to improve the quality in their audit
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