About Client
Major Financial Institution - an investment research firm that provides stock indexes, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools to institutional investors and hedge funds.
Business Need
Migrate the entire on-prem infrastructure and software platforms to Microsoft Azure Cloud and exit from the Geneva data center by Dec 2022.
Leveraging Azure Cloud-Native Services wherever possible.
Open to Platform Modernization after Migration to Azure.
Eliminating administrative overhead of VPC and On-Prem customer Environments.
Addressing the cloud skills gaps with automation.
Improving security posture, uptime/availability to meet risk-averse customer requirements.
Achieving Operational efficiencies through standardization/simplification.
Reducing Cost and Increase Cloud Adoption Velocity to strategically align with their customer’s cloud adoption initiatives.
Solution
Wissen proposed a flexible and seamless solution to help our client to harness the full potential of data and application to the cloud to support their migration objectives.
Replaced legacy orchestration layer with Azure Service Bus.
Used Azure-managed Kubernetes (AKS) service for container orchestration and Helm charts for deployment.
Entire containerization, Sonar scanning, and deployment process are automated with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
By implementing Solution Assessment and thereby executing Azure Cloud Migration, we were able to empower the leadership with the right technology at the right time in the right framework that initiated a thoughtful and accelerated start to the migration.
In addition to this, Wissen put forth all the fundamental elements in place for the financial provider to leverage their 2022 growth initiatives. This also enabled them to adopt Azure as the Primary cloud provider.
Benefits
Speed & Agility – we were able to quickly spin up environments and deploy applications much faster.
Disaster Recovery – We finalized the DR strategy and were able to spin up the entire environment within 2 hours.
High scalability of the services & Network throughput and latency.
Centralized logging and monitoring & troubleshooting turnaround times.
Converting applications into microservices to make use of Microservices benefits like fault tolerance, agility, Faster deployments with Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) strategy, and Reusability across different areas of business lines.
Extensive use of PAAS services resulted in improved availability, scalability, security, and easier application deployment.
