No more Oracle: Sberbank has completely transferred the issue and maintenance of bank cards to its own processing platform

On September 2, 2024, Sberbank announced a complete transition to its own processing platform for issuing and servicing bank cards. All card operations are now performed without the participation of solutions from Oracle. The transition went unnoticed by customers without causing disruption or requiring changes to the service environment.

The new processing was developed by the Sber Tech team and is based on the Platform V DataGrid database management system. This decision was completely patented and entered into the register of domestic software. During 2023, a pilot project was carried out, in which the system was tested on bank employees. Since the beginning of 2024, the migration process has entered the mass phase, and by August 2024 it has been fully completed. Sberbank processing supports about 200 million active debit and credit cards.

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First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Kirill Tsarev noted that the bank's most important task was to ensure the continuity of the service and the stealth of the transition for customers. As a result, debit card migration was seamless and credit cards were re-issued free of charge with improved user conditions.

According to representatives of Sberbank, the new processing architecture significantly exceeds the old one in a number of indicators. The former system was built on a monolithic architecture using a central database and many servers, which limited its performance and flexibility. The new Platform V DataGrid-based platform provides high load resistance and is adapted for high transaction volume in real time. This solution is designed to maintain stable operation of financial systems, large marketplaces and billing systems even in the face of a significant increase in the number of requests, for example, during sales periods.