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A Platform for Innovating at Velocity While Remaining Controlled and Compliant
Enterprise DevOps on AWS in Financial Services
“This is not a growth sector.”
Wicked problems are ones that are “difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.”
Legacy technology, rising regulation, falling margins, rising customer expectations and globalized industry
disruption; these all come together to create a vicious circle of challenges for financial services organizations.
Faced with many of these wicked problems, the direction of travel for financial organizations is uncertain, contradictory and ambiguous.
That’s what JPMorgan recently proclaimed. This is because financial services organizations face a set of ‘wicked problems’.
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Bold Bets Are Needed in Financial Services
AWS as a Platform for Innovation
On the one hand, the rising cost of regulation and reduced appetite for risk that followed the financial crisis have significantly squeezed profit margins.
On the other, the rising threat of FinTech disruption means that they need to deliver digital innovation with speed and agility faster than ever, whilst ensuring security and compliance.
Traditional approaches mean week-long waits for infrastructure, inconsistent environments and slow, bureaucratic change management processes.
The result? It takes months or years to turn ideas into business value.
A modern, programmable platform such as AWS massively reduces the time it takes to put your ideas in your customer’s hands by enabling your developers to easily spin up the environments they need, when they need them.
But AWS is more than just infrastructure.
When you layer high-level services on top – big data, AI, machine learning, serverless computing – it becomes a true platform for innovation.
Some of the world’s most innovative businesses are run entirely on AWS, and this approach is increasingly being proven within some of the world’s largest regulated financial services organizations.
This platform enables you to accelerate time-to-value and concentrate on bringing the value that differentiates your business to your customers quickly and securely.
Forward-thinking organizations realize that a step change is needed in how they deliver digital innovation and how they adapt to regulatory change and security risks.
A DevOps operating model on AWS is the platform of choice for achieving this, enabling secure innovation at speed and scale.
The ‘wicked problems’ faced by financial services organizations are contradictory and challenging.
Limited, static infrastructure is one of the greatest barriers to rapid digital innovation in the enterprise.
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“Silicon Valley is coming and if banks don’t up their game, then tech companies will take over the industry’s business. There are hundreds of startups with a lot of brains and money working on various alternatives to traditional banking.”Jamie DimonCEO, J.P. Morgan
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Maximizing the Benefits of the Cloud with DevOps
According to Forrester, the U.S. will spend up to $1.5 trillion in digital transformation and cloud initiatives, but 70 percent of digital transformation projects are expected to fail by 2018.
Why? Organizations often make the mistake of looking at cloud adoption as a simple process that can fit any existing model or structure. Not so.
The transformative benefits of the cloud only come if you modernize the operating model and culture of your organization as a whole.
This includes using modern automation practices to provision infrastructure and manage applications in an efficient
fashion and optimizing applications to make the most of the distributed, scalable nature of the cloud.
We call this model Enterprise DevOps: federating control of infrastructure and introducing high levels of automation.
The result is that valuable software can be delivered to market faster, with higher quality and with compliance and security requirements baked into the software as code.
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Migrating to Cloud- Native
DevSecOps and Security as Code
Microservice architectures allow you to change your build, test and and deploy services independently, with less risk and at the click of a button.
Containers maximize the portability, resilience, quality, scalability and security of your applications.
Serverless architectures allow you to move away from the commodity management of servers to a situation in which you are only working on and managing differentiating code.
Old security models are being challenged. Ad hoc testing at the end of a software delivery cycle simply isn’t good enough, as recent security breaches have demonstrated.
DevSecOps is about moving to a more modern, integrated approach, improving security and compliance by defining adaptable and repeatable rules as code and automatically integrating them into application and infrastructure deployment pipelines.
When deployed on a modern programmable infrastructure such as AWS, a fully software-defined stack can be made secure, auditable and controlled.
As you begin migrating application workloads to the cloud, consider cloud-native computing: how workloads can be modernized to maximize the inherent advantages of the cloud.
How do you stay secure whilst innovating at speed?
Contino’s DevSecOps Assessment & Strategy
can help you embed security into your software
delivery lifecycle.
Contino’s Cloud Readiness Services help you to build
a pragmatic and ROI driven roadmap for which
applications to move to the cloud and how.
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How Contino Helped the World’s Largest Insurer to Innovate with DevOps on AWS
The insurance company wanted to completely automate its infrastructure, applications and key processes to ensure that it could offer high-quality, personalized, data-driven digital experiences tailored to their customers’ needs.
Thanks to Contino, Allianz achieved the following:
• A new software delivery platform and a new application was delivered in three months: three times faster than with traditional methods.
• The entire platform and all the applications can be moved to another AWS region within three hours.
• Changes can be delivered through an automated build, deploy and test pipeline in 30 minutes.
• A completely new microservice can be delivered within an hour.
• Establishing reusable patterns for software delivery and shifting to an OpEx cost model has lowered infrastructure costs while improving delivery quality, reliability and agility.
Contino has helped Allianz to transform from a partially agile organization to a full DevOps operating model in the public cloud.
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“We didn’t transform alone. Our partnership with Contino, a specialist DevOps and cloud transformation consultancy, brought a wealth of experience to our transformation. Contino has experience helping large, regulated enterprises to overcome existing organisational structures and legacy technologies and to create new, cutting-edge structures and processes that enable rapid time-to-market while remaining secure and compliant.”
Jacob AbboudCIO, Allianz UKSpeaking in Computer Weekly
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Contino’s Strategies for Successful Enterprise DevOps Adoption
Contino offers a battle-tested, pragmatic approach to accelerating financial institutions’ successful adoption of DevOps and cloud computing.
Contino offers a battle-tested, pragmatic approach to accelerating financial institutions’ successful adoption of DevOps and cloud computing.
Momentum: A data-driven transformation roadmap for the successful and accelerated adoption of Enterprise DevOps.
Continuum: A flexible, automated framework that stands up segregated AWS environments and automated continuous delivery pipelines in under 10 minutes and at the push of a button.Continuum and Momentum automate infrastructure provisioning and modernize working practices to make it as easy as possible to bake regulatory and compliance requirements into the software delivery processes that you use to innovate at speed and scale.
The frameworks reduce operating costs, minimize waste, and increase revenue enabling organizations to launch innovative – and compliant – digital solutions to market faster. With these solutions, financial institutions can:
01Adopt DevOps on AWS following a tested roadmap
02Innovate securely with software at speed and scale
03 Deliver solutions at speed while maintaining legal and regulatory compliance.
“The frameworks reduce operating costs, minimize waste, and increase revenue.”
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About Contino
Contino is a world-leading global professional services firm that helps the world’s leading financial services brands to innovate by adopting Enterprise DevOps practices on AWS.
By modernizing how they work and moving to cloud-hosted and cloud-native infrastructure, we help our clients build their own innovation capability, to break their dependency on legacy suppliers, and move quickly and with agility – all whilst remaining controlled, secure and compliant.
ControlledSecureCompliant
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