AlexBank Modernizing Integration over Microservices
- Posted by Adham Jan
- On March 15, 2020
To achieve its strategic goals, Alexbank is currently undergoing through a major IT transformation. On a parallel track to the core banking modernization, Alexbank aims to modernize their integration by introducing latest architecture to provide the bank with resilient infrastructure.
With microservices architecture having a great impact on modernizing existing integration approach, AlexBank has partnered up with Sumerge for the team’s deep expertise and references. Sumerge team has delivered and went live with more than 5 projects leveraging their skills with microservices architecture.
Sumerge is offering an end-to-end agile integration platform built over cloud-native Microservices, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, and Docker as well as DevOps; allowing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). As an integral part of the platform, a modern analytics will be provided using Elastic search, Logstash and Kibana (ELK stack).
After a successful pilot project, AlexBank went live with the first integration service built over microservices by Sumerge team in early 2020. This service was involved with iScore credit check. In fact, the bank realized the positive impact of integrating this service for the brought values including reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), standards-based, scalable, configuration-based rather than code-based integration and many more.
About Agile Integration
Agile Integration solution will modernize your applications’ connectivity. Imagine deploying changes smoothly; decentralized integration with resilience. In other words, deployments won’t impact other applications or your integration platform. Since our Agile Integration solution is built over microservices and cloud-native architecture, it’s well designed for moves to the cloud. In addition, the platform enables you to integrate easily with SaaS applications.
About AlexBank
Established in 1957, ALEXBANK is today one of Egypt’s leading private sector banks, participated by the Intesa Sanpaolo Group since 2007.ALEXBANK owns one of the largest private sector branch networks with a total of 176 branches located in every major Egyptian governorate employing over 4,500 individuals who proudly serve about 1.5 million customers, playing a vital role in Egypt’s economic present and future. ALEXBANK actively serves the widest spectrum of segments by providing value added financial products, services and solutions to Retail, Small Business, Medium and Corporate Enterprises.
