Punjab National Bank (PNB) is one of the 500 largest banks in the
world, and enjoys a rich history and heritage. PNB was the first
Indian bank to be started solely with Indian capital. Established in
1895 at Lahore, and nationalized in 1969, it has worked
assiduously to build the banking sector in rural and urban India. It
has presence in remote areas of the country, cutting across cultural
and linguistic boundaries. Computerization of the branches for data
accuracy, operational ease, facilitation of customer interaction with
banking products, and centralization of data was of concern for
remote branches. One of the important reasons for choosing
BancMate—a multilingual Total Branch Automation (TBA) package
for rural and semi-urban branches—was that it is based on
Microsoft® Windows Server System™, which provides ease of
learning and intuitiveness, as well as the ability to easily implement
and support solutions based on it.