Traditional brick and mortar business is slowing, and the CEO’s strategy at a U.S. financial firm was to answer this challenge by transforming the company into a digital organization. Issues facing this approach included: the lack of IT organization visibility and control experienced by the CIO and central IT group; siloed operations, with more than 40 business units managing independent IT environments; and fragmented security and compliance of the IT environment, which had been left to application owners.
Digital transformation and the new vulnerability scanning tool boosted capabilities and benefits for the firm. The architected cloud solution supported almost a dozen payment, business, marketing and analytics apps and architected DevOps environments across over 40 business units. The firm now has the capacity to receive more than several thousand alerts per month, and monitor and resolve approximately 1,500 incidents. Other critical transformation achievements include:
Leveraging Hitachi services to establish a cloud center of excellence (CCoE), a U.S. finance firm achieved close to 20% enterprise-wide cloud-cost reduction.