Case Study

MainSource Financial Group, Inc., headquartered in Greensburg, Indiana, operates as the financial holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, MainSource Bank. In addition to providing traditional banking services, MainSource Bank is a complete provider of consumer and commercial financial services, offering insurance, brokerage, trust, and title services in all its 85 branch locations throughout Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky. MainSource Financial Group has total assets of approximately $2.9 billion.

The SituationMainSource Bank utilizes Signature from Fiserv as its core banking software on an IBM AS/400. MainSource Financial used check imaging software, also residing on the AS/400, to manage the bank’s check and document images and to backup those images to an IBM Optical Storage System. Not only were storage capacity and speed an issue with the optical equipment, but the technology was also quickly becoming obsolete.

Compliance regulations required MainSource to retain all check and document images for seven years. Purging the images that had reached their retention lifespan was a manual and time-consuming process on the optical system that often involved destroying the platters where the images were stored. MainSource Financial needed an archiving solution that could handle the ever-increasing data growth, with technology that had continuing reliability and, ideally, would offer the convenience of automated features.

The Challenge Looking to phase out the optical system, MainSource Financial engaged with Summit Financial Solutions, a server-based check imaging solution located in Missouri. Summit was providing tape and DVD copies of the data and was happy to accommodate MainSource’s request to instead use RDX disk cartridges as the removable media. MainSource also maintained a primary copy of the data on its Storage Area Network (SAN) and replicated the data for added protection. However, without Write Once Read Many (WORM) capabilities on the SAN, there was concern if the data was altered after a send that the documents would no longer be considered legally binding.

MainSource Financial was in the process of implementing Hyland’s OnBase to manage the permanent document archive. With the SAN as the primary tier of data storage and the ability of OnBase to integrate into its workflow, the company needed an archival tier with technology that had WORM capabilities and the capacity to set data retention periods.

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AT-A-GLANCE

Industry:Financial

Application: Long-term Data Archive

Backup and Replication

Optical Replacement

Regulatory Compliance

Software: Signature from Fiserv

Benefits Realized: Cost-effective and reliable optical replacement; storage and data archive of digital information; fast, reliable backups.

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The SolutionThe Imation InfiniVault Active Archive Storage Appliance offered an easy-to-use data archive platform for retention and retrieval of its check images and legal documents. It also provided the capability to set defined data retention periods, satisfying state and federal compliance regulations. When data reached its retention lifespan, the wipe-off was no longer a manual undertaking—the InfiniVault completed the task automatically.

Imation InfiniVault also provided an ideal replacement to the obsolete optical equipment. The document and check images generated through Fiserv on the AS/400 are now securely archived on the InfiniVault. In addition, the images previously stored on the optical system have been converted off and moved to the InfiniVault, creating a complete and cohesive collection of archived data. Since each disk on the InfiniVault holds a terabyte of data, issues with storage capacity and speed have been eliminated and there is never a need to manually switch out cartridges.

According to Brian Coy, the Chief Information Officer for MainSource Financial, everything came together with the Imation InfiniVault, “It has WORM capabilities; it has redundancy; it can automatically make multiple copies so we can keep them offsite. We checked around with some references and it works great for writing the information out to it.”

At MainSource’s request, Summit now uses Imation RDX disk technology instead of the tapes and DVD’s that were previously used for backup. New copies of the images are burned daily and, by taking advantage of the WORM capabilities, there is assurance that the data cannot be manipulated. The backup created by Summit currently acts as the permanent archive of check images for MainSource. The system also provides a sound DR solution—if anything happens to the SAN, a second copy is readily available.

MainSource Financial currently utilizes three InfiniVaults and has plans to implement a fourth. Once InfiniVault is dedicated to the check images collected by Summit, another archives the document images from the AS/400 that are managed by OnBase, and the third is located at the DR site creating a second copy of all the check images. The company plans to employ the fourth InfiniVault to replicate the data from the unit associated with the images managed by OnBase.

Would Coy recommend the Imation InfiniVault to others? Absolutely. He believes it is a good data solution for banks: “It writes the data right there and gives the bank an ease of mind knowing the data is there and it can’t be deleted.” Coy emphasizes, “We’ve got the Imation device doing the best of both worlds out there—backing data up from a server and then also converting data off our existing optical equipment.”

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“ We’ve got the Imation device doing the best of both worlds out there—backing data up from a server and then also converting data off our existing optical equipment.

”—Brian Coy

CIO MainSource Financial Group