CASE STUDY
BIOS Middle East, a leading managed
services and cloud provider in the
UAE, has successfully completed
Noor Takaful’s migration from on-premise
to the cloud, to accelerate its Digital
Transformation journey.
Noor Takaful was established in early
2009 to provide a broad range of Islamic
insurance (takaful), general and customised
insurance products and services to
individuals, families, groups and companies
in the UAE market.
Insurance companies in the UAE are
required to adhere to NESA compliance;
as such, the applications must be hosted
in the UAE with an in-country Disaster
Recovery system. After an extensive search
in the market, Noor Takaful chose BIOS
Middle East and CloudHPT for the cloud
migration project.
“It’s an exciting time for Noor Takaful and
this project was extremely crucial to take
the business to the next level of growth and
we’re delighted to have chosen BIOS Middle
East as our partner,” said Rajesh Sethi,
CEO of Noor Takaful – Ethical Insurance.
“I am confident that we will be even more
responsive and customer-centric now.”
An intense three-month migration process
followed, involving more than 60 engineers
between application vendors, Noor Takaful
and BIOS Middle East’s teams, resulting in a
successful migration of Noor Takaful’s critical
applications and data.
The services delivered and migrated include
domain migration, email migration to M365
with Mail Assure security and archiving from
Solarwinds. The cut over happened over a
weekend with only minutes of downtime.
“The insurance industry in the UAE is
undergoing a profound transformation
and technology is at the forefront of
it. BIOS Middle East is proud to be the
technology partner of choice for Noor
Takaful and this complex, critical project
allows us to leverage our knowledge and
experience in the insurance industry to
provide Noor Takaful [with] a modern, agile
and cost effective platform on which to
run their business with confidence,” said
Dominic Docherty, Managing Director,
BIOS Middle East.
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