Sectors/Financial services
Financial services
The IT infrastructure decisions you cannot afford to get wrong.
Multinational banks, credit card providers, core banking estates and trading platforms: the hardware underneath them is a board-level commitment, and getting it wrong shows up in resilience, in regulatory exposure and in capital. Interact gives you the independent evidence to make those calls with confidence, so everyone who owns the decision, from engineering to the board, is looking at the same proven numbers.
These are not routine purchases. They are multi-year investments on the systems your customers and the market depend on, and they are too often signed off without adequate information to make the best decision. Interact has measured what server hardware actually does at a scale no one can match, and we put that evidence under the decision before you commit. The investment becomes a calculation.
What it means for the business
- Board-level confidence. Every major hardware decision backed by measured, independent evidence you can put in front of the board.
- Resilience, sized right. The capacity and performance latency-critical systems demand, proven before you buy.
- Regulatory and audit standing. A decision trail that satisfies the risk function, the regulator and internal audit.
- Capital that works harder. Proven reductions of 40 to 70% in cost and energy against a like-for-like refresh, with no new risk pushed into the estate.
- One view, one decision. Procurement, engineering, finance, risk and leadership aligned on the same numbers, so the call gets made and sticks.
Why you can trust it
Our authority is independent and on the record: nine years of peer-reviewed research, the largest body of measured server-performance data in the category, a Gartner Cool Vendor, and a methodology proven across hundreds of projects. We sell no hardware and take no vendor commission. It brings the same cost discipline your teams already apply to cloud spend under FinOps to the hardware you own, where the commitments are larger and the evidence has always been thinner.
"You understand our challenges. You are not telling us to work our hardware harder. You are giving us more information to buy well."
A tier-one UK bank running 25,000 servers
How we work with you
Start self-serve with Interact Verify, the tooling that benchmarks your estate and models the options in front of you. Or bring in Interact Advisory for senior, hands-on partnership across the decisions that carry the most weight. The same dataset and the same authority sit behind both.
Often the most expensive decisions are the ones that stall internally. The vendor's sizing is in doubt, no one has the independent measurement to settle it, and the decision drifts while it costs money. Interact is built to unblock that moment, with evidence the whole group can act on.