Context 

• The key drivers of regulatory compliance and cost control led a major European Investment Bank to explore rationalisation and modernisation of their technology stack.  

Business Objectives

• Significant increase in speed to market.
• On-going reductions in delivery and maintenance costs.

In Scope

• Design and implement a DevOps-led transformation across more than 80 applications and 2 core vendor trading platforms.

Our Solution

• An as-is and to-be Architecture and DevOps tool chain, with a focus on modernisation and de-duplication.
• A prioritised series of initiatives, driven by cost and complexity reduction and scalability.
• A series of DevOps proofs of concept, demonstrating technical solution validity and spanning:
  • Environment automation.
  • Database virtualisation.
  • Test automation.
  • Continuous delivery.

Outcomes

Project Legacy – FIVE critical areas of Time and Cost Savings

Throughout an 18-month period, our DevOps initiatives delivered clear, measurable benefits in the following critical areas:

• An overall 25% cost reduction (through reduced days to deliver) across the whole E2E lifecycle.
• A 15% tooling cost reduction as the result of catalogue rationalisation.
• A 25% reduction in data storage costs.
• A 25% reduction in overall production defects.
• A doubling of speed to market (achieved in quarterly releases replacement).