CASE STUDY 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 of Software Development , AvivaSA .
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 .
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 .
“ Red Hat OpenShift is one of the top container products , with operational efficiency and dynamic management among its great features , so we didn ’ t need to consider any other options ,” said Kağan Aydınyüz , IT Channel and Integration Applications Unit Manager at AvivaSA . “ We were and still are , very happy with the performance of our other Red Hat products .”
Based on the Kubernetes container orchestration technology and Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat OpenShift is a container application platform with full-stack automated operations and a user-friendly interface on a consistent foundation across any onpremise , cloud or hybrid infrastructure .
As a provider of private pension and life insurance services , AvivaSA is a joint venture between Sabancı Holding and British insurance company Aviva plc . It distributes services through several channels , including direct sales , corporate and branch locations , phone , web and mobile .
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
AvivaSA worked closely with Red Hat to design , build and test Red Hat OpenShift in an on-premise , virtualised environment . With assistance from its operations partner SabancıDX , the financial services company migrated four critical business systems to the new environment over six months : pension autoenrolment , a sales mobile application , bancassurance services-a partnership where an insurance company sells products to a bank ’ s client base . The company also migrated applications used by its partner Akbank and usd for AvivaSA ’ s internal operations .
After the completion of its IT modernisation programme , AvivaSA now processes close to 40 % of its critical transactions – around five million
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