Accelerating digitalization with cloud-native modernization and enterprise integration
At a Glance
- Enabled cloud migration and cloud-native modernization for core digital systems.
- Established an enterprise integration (EIP) layer with API-based integration and a cache layer for scale.
- Reduced application downtime risk, achieving 40% fewer downtimes.
- Lowered operational costs through modernization and platform optimization.
- Strengthened partner ecosystem enablement through APIs.
Customer context
AIA Malaysia is on a digitalization journey aimed at improving scalability and enabling a cloud-native foundation for future growth.
The challenge
Legacy applications and tightly coupled architectures slowed the digitalization journey and limited scalability of core systems. Additional effort was required to fully optimize and migrate the environment to a cloud-native setup.
The approach
VKraft helped establish an EIP layer, API-based integration, and a cache layer to decouple systems and improve performance. The program also included lift-and-shift cloud migration alongside a transition toward cloud-native microservices architecture.
The solution
VKraft delivered software consulting and implementation covering cloud and integration modernization.
Delivered capabilities included:
· Hybrid cloud assessment and modernization planning
· Cloud migration.
· Distributed integration strategy development.
· Cloud movement strategy for the EIP layer.
· DevOps and DevSecOps enablement.
· Application modernization using a microservices-based architecture.
· Implementation leveraging Microsoft Azure and webMethods Integration & APIM.
Impact
· Reduced operational cost for applications.
· Reduced risk of application downtimes, with 40% reduced downtimes.
· Helped build a strong partner ecosystem using APIs.