Microsoft Financial Services Australia

Bank of Queensland

Customer Service Automation · Real-time Analytics · System Migration

Bank of Queensland wanted to launch a digital modernization strategy to ensure agility and resilience, build and scale for the future, and support its customer-first approach to business.

As Microsoft emerged as a market leader in generative AI innovation, BOQ began discussing how to optimize its relationship with Microsoft and adopt Copilot as the foundation of its move into AI.
Deploying a solution that included Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Copilot, Bank of Queensland aimed to modernize its operations to enhance collaboration and productivity across the organization.
Lowered time to build reports and plans by 93%
To drive agility and scalability, BOQ adopted a solution that included Copilot, Microsoft Azure , and Microsoft 365 . Copilot, the AI-powered tool integrated across Microsoft 365 apps and services

Reported impact

Business outcome

Lowered time to build reports and plans by 93%

  • Compliance
  • Cost Reduction
  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement

Solution

Bank of Queensland wanted to launch a digital modernization strategy to ensure agility and resilience, build and scale for the future, and support its customer-first approach to business. Deploying a solution that included Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Copilot, Bank of Queensland aimed to modernize its operations to enhance collaboration and productivity across the organization. By utilizing Copilot, Bank of Queensland streamlined processes and enabled its workforce to shift their focus to higher-value activities. The low-risk approach delivered gains in productivity, helping accelerate broader digital transformation. We want to be a forward-thinking, agile organization that is able to leverage cutting edge technologies. To achieve that, we had to move from complex to simple, and by doing that, create greater opportunities for automation, and better ways to run our business.

Solution architecture

3 components · 2 layers
  1. Serving
    • Microsoft 365 Copilot Assists employees inside Microsoft 365 apps with drafting, summarization, analysis, and task execution.
    • Microsoft 365 Provides the collaboration and productivity applications where employees consume the new workflows.
  2. Orchestration
    • Copilot Studio Lets the team build and govern custom copilots and conversational workflows.

Architecture clues

  • By utilizing Copilot, Bank of Queensland streamlined processes and enabled its workforce to shift their focus to higher-value activities.
  • Copilot Studio: Lets the team build and govern custom copilots and conversational workflows.
  • Deploying a solution that included Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Copilot, Bank of Queensland aimed to modernize its operations to enhance collaboration and producti...
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: Assists employees inside Microsoft 365 apps with drafting, summarization, analysis, and task execution.
  • Microsoft 365: Provides the collaboration and productivity applications where employees consume the new workflows.
  • We want to be a forward-thinking, agile organization that is able to leverage cutting edge technologies. To achieve that, we had to move from complex to simple, and by doing that

Evidence from the source

Bank of Queensland wanted to launch a digital modernization strategy to ensure agility and resilience, build and scale for the future, and support its customer-first approach to business.
By utilizing Copilot, Bank of Queensland streamlined processes and enabled its workforce to shift their focus to higher-value activities.
Deploying a solution that included Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Copilot, Bank of Queensland aimed to modernize its operations to enhance collaboration and productivity across the organization.
Lowered time to build reports and plans by 93%
With 150 years' history, Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has long been a trusted name in Australian banking, known for its customer-centric approach to financial services.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 82/100 reference value · 85% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value82/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth15/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity12/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    2 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence85%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity6/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    Bank of Queensland customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/20729-bank-of-queensland-azure
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Dec 27, 2024
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Dec 27, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.