A large securities corporation established in 1991. It is a large-scale comprehensive securities company in China. the business index and financial index of which are leading among securities companies. The scale of transactions in 2016 was around RMB 26 trillion.
This client expected to utilize leading IT and Internet platform to perform digital transformation and become a financial platform with local advantages and global vision and influence in Asia-Pacific region.
• Complex life cycle management for financial products: It takes a long time for new products to go on line, and there is a high probability of mistakes in delivery. New products were packed in conventional way and were manually uploaded to the production and test environments for deployment. Due to variances of the environment, online faults occurred frequently and the productivity was rather low.
• Complex test process for securities related applications: Each project had to be tested in several environments, and the contaminated database had to be fixed when establishing and maintaining test environment. Furthermore, developers of third-party applications often required to set up sandbox test environment, which wasted too much effort.
• Low standardization level of R&D process: Lack of unified application development and delivery processes resulted in high communication cost, low efficiency, and fast iteration seemed to be a mission impossible.
• By introducing the Alauda enterprise container cloud platform, and establishing an independent and controllable cloud management platform from bottom to top, it can implement the transformation from hardware centric IT infrastructure to software centric IT infrastructure.
• With container technology, it can standardize development and test management processes and system delivery. The combination of app store and hierarchical mirroring center can achieve business asset management.
• Alauda cluster scheduling platform is used to implement the entire network's orchestration scheduling mechanism for complete IT resources to implement multi-tiered disaster recovery and redundancy mechanisms for applications, services, and data.
• Standardized software deployment process: In addition to automating all the publish processes and improving productivity, the time, version and relevant responsible person are also recorded in details, which facilitates tracking and rollback and improves the quality of software release.
• Quickly establishing test environment and shortening test cycle time: Each team and third-party vendor can apply for test environment at any time on demand, and designate various version sets and test data set, which greatly reduces test cycle time.
• Easy management of multiple product environments: Unified monitoring, alarming and authority control allow unified management of application versions for each bank, thus facilitating management and maintenance in multiple environments.