Smarter project planning for Equitable Bank

Company Overview

A leading mortgage lender for nearly 50 years, Equitable Bank’s mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and deposit services have helped brokers provide millions of Canadians with options for owning homes and businesses. Equitable Bank is currently Canada’s ninth largest independent Schedule I bank with approximately $32 billion in assets and growing.

Headquarters:

Toronto, Ontario

Department:

IT

Revenue:

$515M

Industry:

Financial Services

Employees:

800

Featured Highlights

  • Schedule Management in Work Planner
  • Centralized document repositories
  • Custom workflows & governance
  • Seamless integration with Microsoft cloud technologies
  • Enterprise grade security

Top Challenges

Siloed operations within its IT Portfolio, as each department operated independently, leading to a lack of transparency, collaboration, governance and effective problem-solving.

With OnePlan, Equitable Bank improved the project intake process by integrating SharePoint using OneConnect. This provided an inexpensive intake environment using SharePoint and automated connectivity to OnePlan for prioritization. OnePlan also met the customer’s requirement for RAID integration by implementing OneConnect to JIRA. OnePlan helped Equitable Bank eliminate the proliferation of emailed spreadsheets containing resourcing and financial information, centralizing this in OnePlan.

Customer Benefits

  • A common system for project forecasting (resource and finance) and project status
  • Automated report generation
  • Connection with JIRA and SharePoint
  • Improved project intake process, scoring, and prioritization
  • Ability to track project information in one tool vs back and forth emails and spreadsheets communication