Universal KUBE

History

2011

Subsidiary of the Indian consortium Tata specializing in solutions for the banking sector enters the markets of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The Tata Consultancy Services company signed the partnership agreement with the Russian integrator Universal KUBE. The B&N Bank which already implemented the automated system belonging to Tata became the first client of partners.

As RBC daily knew, Tata Consultancy Services entered the Russian market with the platform developed especially for the Russian banks. The management of Tata considered more effective to sign the partnership agreement with the Russian company Universal KUBE, but not to open office in Russia. According to a source in the market, development of the full solution for the Russian market took two years, and the license cost the first client of Tata in Russia - to B&N Bank - 10 million dollars.

According to the representative of the Russian side of the CEO of Universal KUBE Sergey Vikhrov, "within the agreement the Universal KUBE company will be responsible for marketing in the local market, to have the right to implement technologies and in general to act as the intermediary of negotiations of Tata with the Russian banks. As profit the Russian side will receive commission charges from transactions from purchase of licenses for software".

"In the near future we expect the raised product demand of TCS from financial institutions of Russia, Ukraine and Republic of Belarus, - the president of TCS Financial Solutions company Ganapati Subramaniam says, - Tata selected as the partner from Russia Universal KUBE company which has unique examination on implementation and support of different bank platforms and at the same time excellent knowledge of our products which will represent our interests in the CIS countries".

"Segment of banking systems - one of exceptional cases when domestic manufacturers with firmness hold the fort against the western competitors. Helps them with this Central Bank the unique, not having analogs in the world reporting system which besides regularly changes. Thanks to this feature the western core banking systems are implemented in Russia hardly, even in foreign banks. Though bankers very much want them directly from the first days of formation of the Russian banking system", - the CEO of Contour Components Nekrasov Vladimir says. The western systems are quite often designed a decade ago, have outdated architecture, technical solutions, nonideal in comparison with the Russian developments. But in them there is what sharply is not enough for the Russian business in general, and bank in particular, the business processes counted to trifles which are carefully thought over and materialized in methodology software. "In recent years in this market epic fight for clients between the Russian and foreign vendors is developed", - Vladimir Nekrasov summarizes.

The Universal KUBE company developed a single system of identification of employees and access control to physical entities and resources of corporate network based on ActivIdentity security aids. For authentication of users in network, systems and applications and also for secure access to physical entities – to premises, printers and the copy equipment the program and hardware products ActivIdentity were used. Authentication of users, visual and electronic, is performed using smart cards which at the same time execute a role of the classical admission with the photo and are universal electronic key of access to physical entities and electronic data. The solution allows to change the access levels of employees quickly. Control of use of the multiple copying equipment on the basis of sharing of the products ActivIdentity and Canon uniFLOW is also offered. Before accomplishment of printing of documents the office equipment requires authorization of the user a smart card directly on the printing device. The developed solution was implemented in one of large Russian banks entering in TOP-50.