Transforming Legacy Infrastructure to Enable Agile, Scalable Banking

The client is a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions for banks, credit unions, retailers, and government institutions, providing mobile retail banking solutions to over 2,800 financial institutions and serving a user base exceeding 9 million. They help their clients through innovation in account processing, digital banking solutions, card issuing, merchant acquiring, payment gateways, and cloud-based point-of-sale solutions.  

Challenge

The client needed to migrate and modernize their on-premises mobile retail banking solution hosted on VMware to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce product deployment cycles. Their primary challenges included:

• Aging infrastructure and increasing operational overhead
• Scalability and resilience issues affecting business-critical applications
• Lengthy deployment cycles, hindering innovation and responsiveness to market demands

Solution

To ensure a smooth transition, a phased migration strategy was implemented:

• Discovery & Assessment: Portfolio rationalization to identify optimal migration pathways. 
• Fast Migrate: Lift-and-shift applications into Microsoft Azure to reduce downtime. 
• Cloud Modernization: Adoption of cloud-native services including Kubernetes, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation for enhanced performance. 

Impact

• 200 Virtual Machines migrated seamlessly. 
• 16 applications refactored to Azure Cloud-native services. 
• 99.9% uptime for business-critical applications. 
• Reduced technical debt and eliminated end-of-life (EOL) VMs. 
• Deployment time reduced from weeks to minutes. 
• Improved scalability, flexibility, and resiliency, ensuring a future-proof cloud infrastructure. 
• Lower operational overhead and optimized cloud costs. 
• 40% reduction in infrastructure costs

This transformation enabled the financial institution to innovate faster, enhance security, and drive operational efficiency while delivering an improved digital experience for millions of users.