
Case Studies
Case Studies
Country: Portugal
Sector: Banking
Company: Santander Totta
Need to streamline the communication and coordination of the Bank with its commercial network of managers, improving its ability of setting goals and achieving them.
Using a web tool known as “Caravela – Attracting Clients”, developed by Infosistema and already used by the network to build and manage new client portfolios, providing 6 planning features.
Luís Silva, Head of Business Network Support.
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Santander Totta, with about 1.8 million customers and more than 700 branches spread across the country, holds a share of approximately 12% of the Portuguese banking system.
In a difficult economic climate, in which client management traditional models have to be renewed in the banking sector, Santander Totta felt the need to streamline communication and coordination with its commercial network of managers, improving its ability to set goals and to achieve them.
The main difficulties to be overcome were:
The solution defined by ISBAN and Infosistema consisted in the implementation of automated processes with routines extracting customer information and objectives of each manager to a Web planning tool, accessible on the Intranet by commercial managers.
This Web tool then synchronizes management planning with the Data Warehouse (DW) and Trade Agenda. The dashboards needed to control processes and hierarchical validation are made available online.
Management information reports are extracted from the DW by batch processes, thereby allowing monitoring the activity of the manager.
The Web application known as “Caravela – Attracting Customers“, developed by Infosistema and already used by the network to build and manage new client portfolios was used, as the platform for the provision of new planning features.
The following Web application features were implemented by: Infosistema
The results of the system reached all the objectives proposed, the new system, the management reports and the Planner were very well received by the entire Companies Network representing a significant advance in terms of planning (first and foremost), implementation and follow-up of the commercial activity of the commercial teams and consequent effectiveness in commercial objectives.
The implemented system enabled:
“Great flexibility and performance of a single team, and one, with excellence results recognized by the final customer ”
Nuno Antunes, Director IG&CRM, ISBAN-PT
“ This project had the success it had because we worked as a single team, always aiming towards the needs of the user and finding the best way to overcome the problems encountered. Flexibility was another strong point, it helped adjust concepts and situations that confronted with the reality and were not completely well defined. It was and is a successful team/project.”
Marisa Martins, Project Manager, ISBAN-PT
“ This project is framed in the new Companies Network systematic business defined within the FORCE Project. The great virtue of the project consisted in the standardization of commercial and systematic preparation/planning exercise of the quarter for the entire commercial network of companies as well as the possibility to carry out the follow-up of planning during each quarter. I give the project team full marks for the way it was created and for the design of the tool. The preliminary stage of architecture was decisive as well as the willingness demonstrated by the teams involved in terms of development to obtain the final product that is recognized by the Commercial network as a great commercial management tool.”
Luís Silva, Head of Business Network Support, Santander Totta
“ Another Project resulting from the cohesion between elements of a dynamic and flexible team, critical to the success of this type of projects and with these timings. Well Done!”
Elisabete Costa, Head of Management of Planning and Technical Implementation, Santander Totta
Fig.1 – Dashboard
Fig.2 – Delegation
Fig. 3 – Management
Fig. 4 – Planner