United Mississippi Financial institution continues to make use of Jack Henry’s Hosted Community Options to reinforce its IT infrastructure with out including staff.  

In 2017, United Mississippi Financial institution Govt Vice President and Chief Data Officer Christopher Maxwell was seeking to enhance IT operations, together with the necessity for 2 full-time IT staff, he instructed Financial institution Automation Information.

Nevertheless, including headcount was expensive, with some IT candidates anticipating to be paid greater than a financial institution’s chief govt, Maxwell mentioned. “That doesn’t match” for the $452 million, Natchez, Miss.-based financial institution, he mentioned.  

“Hosted Community Options (HNS) was particularly designed for monetary establishments to host any Home windows- or Linux-based servers in Jack Henry’s safe and absolutely redundant personal cloud platform,” Nick Shirk, nationwide director of gross sales and data safety and know-how, instructed BAN.  

The financial institution’s third-party service contracts had been expiring in 2017 and it was time for a {hardware} refresh, anticipated to price about $1 million, Maxwell mentioned. Whereas figuring out the very best path to enhance {hardware} and digital servers, Maxwell talked with the Jack Henry group in addition to banks that had already carried out HNS. 

The financial institution is in its third three-year contract with HNS, Maxwell mentioned. The platform meant the financial institution wouldn’t want to rent extra full-time staff.  

“By successfully transferring dangers and administration obligations to Jack Henry, monetary establishments can free inside IT assets to give attention to strategic initiatives to raised serve their account holders,” Shirk mentioned. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based FirstBank and Panama Metropolis Seaside, Fla.-based Improvements Credit score Union are amongst monetary establishments which have moved their community infrastructure to HNS, in accordance with the Jack Henry web site.  

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