Value Stories- THE NEXT LEVEL

THE NEXT LEVEL

HEJER KRICHENE, CLOUD SOLUTION EXPERT, INSOMEA COMPUTER SOLUTIONS, SHARES HOW MIGRATING ITS APPLICATIONS TO THE MICROSOFT AZURE CLOUD PLATFORM ENABLED A FINANCIAL INVESTMENT COMPANY TO ADDRESS STRICT COMPLIANCE REGULATIONS AND ENJOY ENHANCED COLLABORATION CAPABILITIES.

A large financial player in the investments space set out to transfer its on premises applications to a secure and convenient cloud platform. After operating on AWS in the past, the customer made the decision to migrate both its applications and servers to one main cloud provider for ease of use and to address compliance regulations within the financial sector. The customer was also keen to ensure the solution would offer scalability for applications moving forward.

The financial player reached out to Insomea Computer Solutions, the cloud computing company specializing in security and application modernization, to help achieve its objectives. For Insomea Computer Solutions, it was clear that the Microsoft Azure platform was the answer. Building on an existing relationship between the two firms prior to this project allowed Insomea Computer Solutions to leverage its expertise in Microsoft technology. Through pre-sales workshops with the customer’s IT team, Insomea Computer Solutions was able to demonstrate the platform’s value and power in the cloud computing space. But that was not all.

“Due to the nature of the network that the customer was building and the industry that it operates in, there were a number of compliance regulations that needed to be addressed when selecting the right solution,” said Hejer Krichene, Cloud Solution Expert, Insomea Computer Solutions.

“There was a fear of losing data, either during or post implementation, so making sure that this wouldn’t happen was a focus for us. To do so, we had to work in two stages: development and production – ensuring that we duplicated the environment in both stages to prevent the risk of data loss.”

By selecting Microsoft Azure as the platform of choice, the customer has since been able to leverage several additional services that were not available previously.

“Microsoft Azure offers a whole host of new services when compared to a server, such as serverless applications and creating a virtual machine in one click,” said Krichene. “The customer now has the capabilities and scalability to take their cloud-based workload to the next level, in addition to meeting the compliance needs of financial institution recommendations.”

Plus, when it comes to machine learning and data, the customer now has an entire integration at its fingertips with Microsoft Azure, to automate the movement and transformation of data.

“With Azure Data Factory, the customer has access to the best performance integration which can add immense value in gaining context and insights from the raw data,” said Krichene.

In addition, the Azure migration has offered the customer the ability to develop its own solutions using Azure DevOps – enabling the team to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications in the cloud. For further collaboration, Azure Virtual Desktop also enables the customer to connect its external vendors or relevant stakeholders to its infrastructure by offering a secure remote desktop from virtually anywhere.