All financial institutions acknowledge the need to harness the vast opportunities provided by cloud computing. But migrating established platforms and applications to the cloud is more than a change in technology. GFT's deep financial service insights and technology capabilities provided tremendous business benefits to the collateral management platform of this leading collateral systems provider.
El reto
- Migrate a 10-year-old collateral management platform to the cloud, hosted on AWS
- Simplify and overhaul the customer experience without significant changes to underlying systems
- Introduce an agile delivery model to client organisation
- Reduce delivery lead times for software releases of customer experience
- Deliver within a 6-month timeframe
Compromiso
- Mobilised a mixed-shore, multi-disciplinary team comprising:
- Onshore/on-site (London): customer experience designers, visual designers, front-end developers, architect, BAs, PM
- Nearshore (Lodz/Warsaw): software engineers, QA
- Applied DevOps practices to the end-to-end development and deployment of all GFT deliverables
- Decoupled customer experience development from core platform engineering
- Rolled out upgraded customer experience and visual design for key user journeys
- Introduced a new technology stack including Angular II, Redux, Material UI, JUnit, JMeter, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Protractor and Sonar
Beneficio
- Improved delivery capability in client organisation, including architecture, requirements management, delivery agility and automation tooling
- Significantly reduced the time for end-user execution of key system configuration and business process execution activities
- Enabled provision of system as a cloud-based service
- Reduced release cycle time of new end-user functionality from months to days
