Financial-services company increases its efficiency by 50 percent

Technology solutions:

• Capgemini methodology
• Automation tools developed by DevOps team
• Online, an authorization system
• Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Challenge

• Company needed a partner to migrate a set of in-house developed environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Existing infrastructure is provided and managed by a third party with SOA support from Capgemini and apps support from another third party
• Needed to mitigate the four- to six-week delay in provisioning a new environment on the existing infrastructure, which could have a negative impact on projects
• Company had a five-day SLA for setting up or changing firewall rules, which impacted development agility speed

Solution

• Migrated a set of the client’s existing environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Provisioned a Virtual Cloud Network in OCI and the virtual machines for database, SOA, and applications into the VCN (Virtual Cloud Network)
• Deployed the data and online applications from the existing card-management system banking solution to compute virtual machines on OCI
• Cloned the card-management system’s data and online databases to PaaS Database Cloud Service (DBCS) on OCI
• Deployed SOA Database Cloud Service (DBCS) on OCI
• Installed SOA suite 11g on compute VM and re-deployed composites
• Provided an end-to-end card-management system, which holds the credit-card data. This system’s data application development was completed by a third-party vendor.
• Launched an authorization system called Online. Any changes in the prime rate, such as new card creation or status change, is authorized in Online.

Results

• The solution demonstrated the capability to increase efficiencies by 50 percent.
• The automated deployment and configuration tools and methodology developed by Capgemini DevOps reduced provisioning time from four weeks to only a few days.
• It was a successful migration with minimal need for manual interaction and less risk of errors.

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