Blog | July 15, 2026
Focus on Hogan Health Checks
Core banking systems are expected to do more than simply run reliably.
They must scale efficiently, support continuous change, meet increasing regulatory scrutiny and above all, control cost. For banks running Hogan, a Hogan Health Check is a proven way to assess current performance, reduce risk and create a clear, actionable modernization roadmap.
DXC’s Hogan Health Check is a structured assessment designed to evaluate the performance, capacity, architecture and operational efficiency of a bank’s Hogan environment. Product, mainframe and integration specialists provide fact‑based recommendations that can be implemented immediately or staged over time.
What is a Hogan Health Check?
In plain terms, a Hogan Health Check is a collaborative engagement where DXC subject‑matter experts work alongside the bank’s business and technical teams to review:
- Hogan application configuration and customizations.
- Online and batch processing performance.
- Infrastructure, capacity and workload distribution.
- Integration patterns and dependencies.
- Operational processes and change management practices.
A Health Check is typically initiated when a bank experiences performance pressure, capacity concerns, rising operational costs, or when preparing for growth, acquisitions or major change programs. The outcome is a clear set of prioritized directives centered on improving performance, reducing cost, increasing stability and enabling future modernization.
Customer story
A leading Portuguese bank
Our client is a large, privately owned European universal bank with a leading position in its domestic market and a significant international footprint. Its retail, corporate, commercial and investment banking operations are complemented by insurance, asset management and digital banking services. This particular Health Check focused on performance optimization and mainframe cost reduction, specifically to:
- Reduce MIPS consumption and performance impact.
- Review Hogan applications alongside Umbrella and UMBPlex usage.
- Assess both online and batch processing efficiency.
DXC’s assessment examined Hogan’s workload characteristics, processing windows and configuration to identify practical opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs, while maintaining system stability and regulatory resilience. In addition to performance analysis, the Health Check opened discussions around managed services for ongoing support and a longer‑term operational partnership.
Customer story
A pan-European payments and cards management provider
Nexi is a pan‑European PayTech and payments infrastructure provider, operating at scale across merchant acquiring, card issuing, digital banking platforms and real-time payment services. Based in Southern Europe and listed on a major European exchange, Nexi plays a leading role in the continent’s payments ecosystem, serving financial institutions, merchants, public sector bodies and large enterprises.
Hogan Health Check principles were applied within a broader Hogan Managed Services and optimization context to:
- Standardize operating models for Hogan application support.
- Improve governance, capacity management and service continuity.
- Support both run-the-bank and change-the-bank activities.
- Reduce MIPS.
The engagement demonstrated how Health Check insights can be used to diagnose technical issues and to establish a sustainable operating model with clearly defined KPIs, governance and continuous improvement mechanisms. This approach has supported long‑term service stability while enabling the platform to scale and evolve in line with business growth.
Why Hogan Health Checks matter
Hogan Health Checks consistently deliver value by:
- Reducing risk through early identification of performance, capacity and stability issues.
- Cutting costs via improved workload efficiency and infrastructure optimization.
- Improving agility by detecting bottlenecks that slow change and upgrades.
- Creating clarity through a fact‑based roadmap aligned to business priorities.
Crucially, a Health Check is not a one‑off audit. It’s often the starting point for modernization, feeding directly into Hogan managed services, testing, DevOps and data initiatives.
From insight to action
Experience shows that Hogan Health Checks are most powerful when treated as a strategic enabler rather than a diagnostic exercise. By combining deep Hogan expertise with operational and architectural insight, DXC helps banks move from reactive problem‑solving to proactive, planned improvement.
In an industry where stability, resilience and speed coexist, Hogan Health Checks give banks the confidence to modernize without jeopardizing the core systems they rely on every day.
