COUNTRY FOCUS : TURKEY
Turkish pension and life insurance provider AvivaSA sought to expand its IT modernisation programme to prepare for government permission to use public cloud environments . To create a container – and microservices-based architecture , the company expanded its Red Hat environment with Red Hat OpenShift . Now , AvivaSA uses its responsive , reliable container platform to deliver services 95 % faster while reducing costs by 23 % – leading the way to a cloud-based future for Turkey ’ s finance industry .
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One of Turkey ’ s leading private pension and life insurance companies , AvivaSA Emeklilik ve Hayat A . Ş . was established in October 2007 . The joint investment company of Turkish insurance company Sabancı Holding and Belgian insurance company Ageas , provides private pension and life insurance .
In 2017 , Turkey ’ s government began requiring all private-sector employers to automatically enrol employees into a pension plan . In response , AvivaSA introduced its IT modernisation programme , an extensive initiative of 44 projects . To support this work , the company adopted Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to manage its many Java applications and Red Hat ’ s single sign-on technology to centralise security and integrate multiple sources of authentication . As a result , AvivaSA successfully launched a new pension auto-enrolment plan , completed 30 million pension transactions by the end of 2017 and won 282,000 new pension contracts .
Recently , AvivaSA decided to continue its IT modernisation efforts by migrating from its serviceoriented architecture ( SOA ) to microservices , Kubernetes and container-based architecture , supported by an on-premise cloud strategy .
“ Moving to the cloud and containerising the technology supporting our services would increase business agility in anticipation of government permission to allow finance companies to use public cloud at some point in the future ,” said Yaşar Karadeli , Head , Software Development , AvivaSA .
Enhancing enterprise service environment with Red Hat OpenShift
After its success with Red Hat technology , AvivaSA turned to Red Hat for a supported , enterprise Kubernetes-based container platform that took advantage of the rapid innovation and troubleshooting of the community while providing the required reliability .
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