Case Study
Overview
This customer was embarking on a digital transformation to simplify and digitise the customer journey for its consumers, partners and resellers.
Exploiting technology to deliver greater customer experience.
Industry:
FSI
Location:
South Africa
Size:
Enterprise
Company BIO
Investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.
Customer Objectives
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Adoption of a flexible infrastructure platform to enable them to develop and launch new products into the insurance market.
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Reduce technical debt of current infrastructure and adopt infrastructure as code principles for managing and scaling application services.
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Identification of potential mainframe migration options ensuring that business critical programs are not impacted.
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A safe rate of change approach.
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Migration away from high cost Oracle Platforms
The Approach
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Rapid discovery of I.T landscape from multiple sources including static CSV files and ITSM data.
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Migration strategy and technical debt analysis identifying initial migration move groups
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The creation of a full business case with on-premise and Oracle refresh comparison
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Identification of proof of concepts for mainframe modernisation.
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Development of migration programme plan providing mode 1 and mode 2 migration approaches.
The Results
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junkshon saved hours of spreadsheet data collection and assembly of configuration data from different data sources.
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Customer uploaded data across two weeks with minimal effort by the existing operational staff.
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Analysis performed remotely enabling data-driven workshops onsite with the customer in South Africa
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Development of migration strategy and roadmap using customer data for mainframe and midrange migrations
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Development of on-premise and AWS cloud business cases
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Rapid identification of Oracle replacement quick wins using AWS RDS and compute services using scenarios and licensing information uploaded into the junkshon platform