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Expanding Financial Services and Enhancing Scalability with AWS Cloud: A Case Study on Discovery Limited

Applicable Industries
  • Cement
  • Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions
  • Product Research & Development
Use Cases
  • Construction Management
  • Inventory Management
Services
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The Challenge
Discovery Limited, a South Africa-based financial services group, faced a significant challenge as it expanded into a large corporation. The company, which specializes in banking, insurance, healthcare, wellness, and investments, required greater scalability and computing capacity to support its growth. Additionally, Discovery Limited aimed to expand its customer base and develop a new solution to monitor customers' health and inspire better lifestyle behaviors. However, the company needed a reliable partner to help them migrate to AWS and develop this new product. Another major challenge was related to data management. The data, which was stored and processed on-premises, needed a centralized and unified approach for effective governance, storage, organization, and accessibility.
About The Customer
Discovery Limited is a financial services group headquartered in South Africa. The company is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the largest stock exchange in Africa. Discovery Limited provides a broad range of financial solutions to over 5 million clients, serving both businesses and individuals. The company is a large corporation that consists of several companies and specializes in various segments, including banking, insurance, healthcare, wellness, and investments. As the company has grown, it has sought to expand its customer base and develop innovative solutions that inspire better lifestyle behaviors among its customers.
The Solution
N-iX, a team of experts with hands-on AWS expertise, was brought in to help Discovery Limited. They started the project with a Proof of Concept (PoC) to define goals, estimate costs, and choose relevant technologies. The team performed an end-to-end cloud migration to AWS and developed a new product to help Discovery Limited reach more customers. The N-iX team also helped the client choose the most efficient AWS services and analyze costs. They built a PoC for Atlas MongoDB migration to the cloud and worked on AWS DocumentDB PoC to choose the most efficient solution. The team also migrated OpenShift Kubernetes to Amazon EKS and created GitHub Actions to automate, customize, and execute software development workflows right in the repository. Additionally, they developed a new product for Discovery Invest and Discovery Vitality, which provided bonuses and incentives to customers who met certain conditions.
Operational Impact
  • The collaboration with N-iX has resulted in significant operational benefits for Discovery Limited. The migration to AWS cloud has ensured better data governance, high scalability, and cost reduction. The new product developed has allowed the company to reach more customers and incentivize healthy lifestyles through rewards, discounts, and partnerships. The migration from on-premises to AWS has also provided the client with the flexibility of the cloud, enabling them to support a growing customer base. The successful implementation of GitHub Actions has allowed the company to automate, customize, and execute software development workflows right in the repository, enhancing efficiency. Overall, the solutions implemented have provided Discovery Limited with limitless scalability and a novel way to attract and engage customers.
Quantitative Benefit
  • The client plans to move up to 90% of the infrastructure to the cloud.
  • The new product developed allows the client to provide additional bonuses to regular customers, thereby increasing customer retention.
  • The cloud migration strategy adopted has helped the client reduce operational overhead and costs.

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