1

Migrating Banking Applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry

A Canadian bank sought assistance in enabling business-critical applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry and accelerating development.

Finance
Cloud Foundry
Cloud-Native

About the project

Brief results of the collaboration:

  • The customer moved 6 applications (for online lending, digital banking, mortgage underwriting, deposit services, risk rating, and ETL processing) to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
  • The migrated applications are compliant with the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) security regulations.
  • By containerizing the applications previously run on virtual machines, the customer significantly reduced time spent on deployment, release, and update cycles.

The customer

Based in Canada, the bank provides residential and commercial real estate lending services. The organization employs over 800 workers and manages more than $30 billion in total assets.

The need

The customer was mostly outsourcing application development to multiple vendors. This resulted in time-consuming and cost-prohibitive releases, maintenance, and support.

Collaborating with Altoros, the company wanted to improve its in-house software development through the adoption of a cloud-native platform.

The challenge

Under the project, the team at Altoros had to address the following issues:

  • While enabling applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, it was important to ensure security compliance with the CDIC regulations.
  • With no monitoring across existing applications, the customer’s team had to analyze redundant logs and metrics.
  • Manual debugging and troubleshooting was time-consuming and error-prone.

The solution

Developers at Altoros migrated 6 business-critical applications—for online lending, digital banking, mortgage underwriting, deposit services, risk rating, and ETL processing—to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

To enforce security and achieve compliance with the financial regulations, our engineers delivered such modules as a compliance scanner, a file integrity monitor, an antivirus scanner, and isolation segments.

By containerizing the applications previously deployed on virtual machines, the team at Altoros accelerated deployment, release, and update cycles.

To condense verbose logs and metrics emitted by applications, our experts created custom Graylog-based filters and dashboards. Then, developers at Altoros implemented Micrometer to automate debugging and troubleshooting.

Finally, engineers at Altoros assisted the customer’s in-house team in deploying, configuring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Concourse. By integrating the pipeline with JFrog Artifactory and GitLab, our team enabled continuous delivery and version control.

The outcome

Partnering with Altoros, the customer migrated 6 of its business-critical applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, while achieving compliance with the CDIC regulations. Through the adoption of a cloud-native platform, the company drastically reduced costs and time efforts incurred by outsourcing development. By containerizing the applications, the company accelerated deployment, release, and update cycles.

Technology stack

Platform

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Infrastructure

Microsoft Azure

Programming languages

Java

Frameworks and tools

Spring, Docker, Gradle, Jenkins, Concourse, GrayLog, JFrog, Healthwatch, Micrometer, Prometheus

You May Also Like

Automation of In-field Job Planning and Performance Optimization
Java
JavaScript
PostgreSQL
Information technology
Marketing
Call Recording, Analytics, and Workforce Optimization Solution
.NET
jQuery
C#
JavaScript
MS SQL
Information technology
Highly Scalable System for DNA Analysis
Hadoop
Java
Information technology
Healthcare
Sport
A Highly Secure Smart Home System Wins a Kickstarter Funding
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
JavaScript
Angular
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Information technology
The Image Recognition System
Java
MongoDB
NoSQL
e-Commerce
Integrated logistics solutions to the offshore industry
Android
LikeFolio: Best Practices of Cloud and Ruby Development for Application Optimization
NoSQL
MySQL
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Marketing
Social media
Telecommunications
Finance
Data-Driven Analytics
Software for Selecting and Mixing Paint
.NET
MS SQL
C#
WP
Information technology
Retail
Software Suite for Mobile Technicians and Field Service Management
.NET
MS SQL
iOS
Android
Logistics and transportation
The System for Emergency Control Centers
.NET
C#
MS SQL
Healthcare
Sport
Logistics and transportation
The Cloud-based Document Exchange System
Java
jQuery
NoSQL
Information technology
e-Commerce
The Marketing Information Messaging System
.NET
C#
MS SQL
iOS
Marketing, Social media
Telecommunications
The NuoDB Migrator for Moving SQL Data to a NoSQL Database
Java
NuoDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Information technology
Manufacturing
Toyota Automates Its System for Holding Tenders
.NET
C#
Manufacturing
Warehouse Workload Monitoring Application
.NET
C#
MS SQL
WP
Logistics and transportation
Web-Based Personal Styling
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
JavaScript
jQuery
MySQL
Social media
e-Commerce
Web-Based System for Retailers
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
MySQL
MongoDB
Retail
e-Commerce
A Blockchain-Based Platform for Automating Bond Issuing Worth $10M
Bash
JavaScript
Blockchain
Finance

Contact us

Jan-Terje Nordlien

Daglig leder

jan-terje@altoros.no+47 21 92 93 00

Altoros Norge AS
Org.nr.: 894 684 992
Tordenskiolds gate 2,
0160 Oslo