Here’s how the banking and wealth management group has transformed its business by leveraging the benefits and capabilities of Microsoft CloudInvestec SA has adopted a cloud-first strategy to ensure it stays relevant and competitive in the rapidly changing financial services sector. Picture: Supplied/Investec
Investing in, and moving to, the cloud to harness these benefits has been a four-year journey for Investec so far — and the business has already experienced the value. “This framework gives businesses a way to approach growth and innovation by balancing the demands of the present through core systems with the needs of the future through new products and solutions,” says Ricardo Rosa, Enterprise Commercial director at Microsoft SA.
These capabilities have been facilitated through Platform-as-a-Service , Software-as-a-Service , Infrastructure-as-Code and data engineering pipelines.People are the key to making these capabilities work, however. Digital transformation and the use of technology to streamline business operations doesn’t mean people don’t need to be involved.
Marrying the potential of people and the technological capabilities of the cloud to accelerate digital transformation, modernisation, innovation and resilience is still the start of the journey for Investec.