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In the race to digital transformation. cloud has been a critical enabler. In the early years, the conversation around cloud in the banking community centered on reducing costs and increasing storage and computational capabilities. The concerns around the security, compliance, or skilling, which while valid, slowed banks down and distracted them from the urgency of adoption.
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Given that disruption often comes from adjacent sectors or from the application of an existing technology to a new field, we found it essential to begin with a broad analysis of the latest trends before zooming in progressively on financial services and on trade finance specifically.
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2- Disrupted industries, changes in the way we live and work
3- FinTech disrupt (and partner with) banking and insurance
4- Conclusion: Trade Finance is also ripe for disruptive innovations
We really hope that you will like this Market Trends Report and that you will find it useful. When you read it, please keep in mind that it is still being refined. We welcome your feedbacks, insights and suggestions.
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Cloud native applications for banking
1. How banks are increasing business velocity and
customer satisfaction with applications and
services built for the cloud
Capgemini Perspectives:
Cloud Native Comes
of Age in Banking
2. Executive overview
Introduction
Cloud native comes of
age in banking
Three typical use cases driving
cloud-native adoption in the
banking industry
Overcoming the challenges
of legacy IT investments
Assessing your applications portfolio
Weighing up the technology options
Effecting cultural change
Building the team of the future
Educate, enable, and enforce: making
cloud native a reality
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Cloud Native Comes of Age in Banking2 3
3. Why read this report
In this paper, learn how banks can
overcome the barriers to effectively
embrace and make the most of a cloud-
native approach. They must:
• Consider the motivations
driving cloud-native adoption in
this industry.
• Transform DevOps in line with
new cloud-native capabilities and
development approaches.
• Select a platform or technology
option that supports these goals.
• Evaluate their existing applications
and services portfolio to decide:
–– Which should be lifted and shifted
to the cloud
–– Which should be rewritten
for cloud
–– Which should be retired.
• Ensure that the workforce and the
culture are ready for the move to
cloud native.
The benefits of being
a cloud-native leader:
Executive overview
In an age where business velocity and
innovation are critical to success, a
growing number of companies in the
banking industry are embracing a
cloud-native approach to application
development and deployment. This
approach is helping companies realize
value around key business priorities:
• Creating differentiated customer
experiences through continuous
innovation - thanks to the agility and
flexibility of cloud native.
• Developing customer insights using
big data and analytics applications
- enabled by elastic and scalable
cloud-native architecture.
• Complying with regulatory reporting
requirements - through burst
processing in the cloud.
• Unlocking data to comply with
regulations such as PSD2, CMA,
GDPR and CRS - by developing
secure APIs for an ecosystem
of partners.
Taking the pulse
of the market
To understand how well companies
in this industry are embracing the
cloud-native opportunity, their
motivations for doing so, and the
success they’re seeing, Capgemini
recently commissioned a global survey.
The findings confirm the growing
importance of cloud native in this
industry, with banks expecting to
spend 41% of their cloud budget on
PaaS three years from now.
And many cloud-native leaders are
already seeing significant results:
• 88% of cloud-native leaders say
that it has improved the agility of
their organization.
• 84% say that cloud native has
helped them increase revenues and
cut operating costs.
But adoption isn’t always easy, and
many barriers still stand in the way of
their transformation journeys:
• More than 60% of respondents
say that integrating cloud-
native applications with
legacy infrastructure poses
a significant challenge.
• 61% agreed that organizations face
a significant cultural challenge in the
move to cloud native.
88%
Improved the agility
of their organization
84%
Revenue up,
operating costs down
54 Cloud Native Comes of Age in Banking
4. Introduction
IT leaders in banks are on board with
the cloud revolution. They recognize
the benefits of cloud, have mitigated
their security concerns, and have
started moving core applications to the
new environment.
But many of the banking applications
running in the cloud today were
originally built for an on-premises
world. They’ve been migrated to a
cloud environment, rather than being
developed from the ground up to take
advantage of cloud’s elasticity and
scalability.
Truly cloud-native applications—
applications that are developed
and deployed as a set of flexible
microservices using Platform-as-a-
Service (PaaS) tools—can go much
further to reduce costs, boost
performance, and increase business
velocity. So, are banks taking
advantage?
Uncorking creativity
with open banking
It is evident that many banks are
forging ahead with their cloud-native
strategies. They have little choice,
as the 2017 Capgemini World Retail
Banking Report1
points out: “The
future success of banks will require a
shift toward an open banking model.
This can uncork the creativity of third
parties, generating unprecedented
opportunity for building and
distributing innovative new products,
while offering customers transparency
and a ubiquitous banking experience.”
Cloud-native applications sit at the
heart of this digital evolution. As an
example, Capgemini worked with a
leading US-based bank on its move
to cloud native as part of a strategy
to develop and securely expose new
application programming interface
(API) channels.
This helped the bank develop an
innovative new operating model with
a new architecture enabling greater
agility and speed-to-market. This led
to an impressive tenfold reduction in
quality assurance costs and a release
cycle slashed to weeks instead of
months.
Cloud Choice Podcast
series: Reasons to consider
a cloud-native strategy.
Discover reasons why businesses
are considering cloud native more
than ever before in this podcast.
The future success of
banks will require a
shift toward an open
banking model."
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1 https://www.worldretailbankingreport.com/
6 Cloud Native Comes of Age in Banking 7
5. Cloud native comes of
age in banking
The survey results show that cloud
native is gaining noticeable traction
in the banking industry, with 27% of
executives saying that cloud native is
already a “core part” of their overall
cloud strategy. Our survey indicates
that, on average, banks spend around
27% of their cloud budget on PaaS.
This is only set to increase, with banks
expecting to spend 41% of their cloud
budget on PaaS three years from now.
The ability to deliver new applications
at speed has become an essential
capability in today’s banking industry.
New applications and service delivery
models have transformed the face
of consumer banking in recent years
and, as consumer demands continue
to evolve, cloud native will prove
instrumental in helping banks adapt to
serve them best.
Unsurprisingly, customer-facing
websites were named as the most
popular cloud-native application
priority in our survey—with 38%
of our survey respondents placing
them above all other applications in
importance.
The governance and
compliance challenge
Yet despite the clear applications for
a cloud-native approach in banking,
one significant challenge remains—
governance. Fear over how DevOps
delivery and management on the
public cloud will impact governance
remains the most significant barrier
to cloud-native adoption in this
industry—a challenge that CIOs must
navigate carefully as they guide their
organizations toward cloud-native
banking success.
Further, as banks increasingly step
up their collaboration with FinTechs
and other external partners to deliver
differentiating customer experiences
through APIs, safeguarding customer
data across all channels becomes not
just a governance challenge, but one of
reputation and revenue as well.
Of course, one of the most significant
challenges is compliance. In the
highly regulated financial services
sector, compliance with current and
impending regulations for sharing data
and providing regulatory bodies with
access to banking systems is clearly
a strategic imperative. This includes
regulations governing data use and
storage (GDPR), the sharing of tax and
financial information (CRS), and open
banking (PSD2).
Yet all of these concerns actually
strengthen the business case for cloud
native. That’s because cloud native
and the use of APIs help banks to
securely open their systems to external
partners and regulatory bodies.
As banks move from being secure
vaults of data to having to control a
broader and more open ecosystem
where data flows between parties,
policies and processes designed for
the closed world are no longer fit for
purpose.
Cloud-native applications are
inherently designed for this new
ecosystem—enabling secure and
efficient operations as banks shift to an
“outside-in” view of IT operations.
With applications and services
designed to support the way data
is shared today, it’s easier for banks
to maintain compliance with new
data storage, processing, and usage
regulations—and work closely with
regulators during inspections.
Adapt or die
The value of a strong customer engagement model is emphasized in
the 2017 World Retail Banking Report,2
which revealed that banks are
losing ground to non-traditional firms in the desirable customer segment
of Gen Y and tech-savvy consumers. The population of digital natives
is expanding and older generations are becoming comfortable with
modern technology, placing banks under more pressure to deliver speed,
personalization, and instant gratification on online/mobile channels to
matchup with experiences offered by tech-innovators, such as Apple,
Amazon and Facebook.
By 2020
Strong interest in the
cloud-native approach:
“A core part of
our cloud
strategy now”
27%
“…of cloud
spend will be on
PaaS”
41%
2 https://www.worldretailbankingreport.com/
8 Cloud Native Comes of Age in Banking 9
6. 1)
Transform the business
for greater agility
and flexibility
As companies in this industry drive
flexibility and agility to help enhance
customer experiences and accelerate
product releases, they need the right
technology strategy to enable this
transformation.
Traditional monolithic applications
can severely limit agility as applying
even simple updates can take weeks.
In this industry, defined by the
emerging competition from FinTechs
and increasing regulatory demands,
cloud native offers a microservices
architecture that allows companies
to rapidly adapt and develop new
business models in the most efficient
way possible.
2)
Optimize operational
efficiency using
public cloud IaaS
Digitalizing operations to improve
efficiency and gain actionable real-
time insights requires a well-oiled
infrastructure and set of processes in
the background.
Cloud native offers significant
opportunities for improving
operations—especially the processes
that tie application development to IT
operations (DevOps). Companies are
able to improve DevOps efficiency,
achieve continuous delivery with CICD,
and optimize their operations.
Cloud-native development running
on the public cloud enables DevOps
teams to overcome numerous issues
that frequently impact development
process efficiency and speed, and the
quality of outputs, such as:
• Inconsistencies in environment
configurations when going between
the dev, test, and release stages
• Drops in quality due to significant
increases in the size and scale of
releases each year
• Long time to market caused by
unexpected integration collisions
and unresolved dependencies.
3)
Adopt an API ecosystem
Banks that want to deliver innovative,
new hyper-connected services for
customers, comply with emerging
regulations, and build a platform for
future growth need to break their
monolithic integration flows into
microservices that enable them to
achieve greater business velocity. This
has led to an increased adoption of
APIs for building agile integrations and
opening new channels for growth.
Cloud-native development and
microservices architecture help
achieve this by moving towards an
API ecosystem. This allows banks to
develop a services architecture where
they can manage connections with
partners, regulators, and different
parts of their own business through
APIs to deliver innovative services and
new business models, and comply with
regulations.
Three typical use cases driving
cloud-native adoption in the
banking industry
Companies have different motivations for planning their move to cloud native.
The three most common use cases in the banking industry are:
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7. Overcoming the
challenges of legacy IT
investments
As the pace of change increases, banks
are under pressure to deliver rapid
and effective transformation while
still relying on legacy IT investments.
Achieving that isn’t easy, and it’s a long
process of trial and error. This has led
many banks to realize the need to fully
embrace a cloud-native approach.
In the first phase, we saw changes
in the way the applications were
delivered as banks moved to new
cloud-native technologies and agile
methods—particularly for new digital
channel development. However, they
didn’t realize the benefits expected,
due to the constraints of the delivery
and release model.
In the second phase, banks moved
to embrace DevOps and automate
the development, test, and release
process, leveraging internal cloud
platforms. However, these platforms
were found to be ineffective at
supporting this model, which required
“infrastructure as code” to deliver the
intended results.
In the third phase, we see banks
fully embrace cloud native—utilizing
new technologies, agile, and DevOps
delivery models which fully embrace
public cloud—increasing both the
speed and effectiveness of delivery.
However, even with the proven
benefits of cloud native, legacy IT
investments remain a major barrier.
Historic investment in data centers
and applications that have been fully
capitalized represent very low running
costs. So, the challenge now is to
identify how to embrace all aspects of
cloud native from the outside in.
Once the number of applications
moved into this model achieves critical
mass, banks can start making large
changes to the existing infrastructure
to keep costs low. But, until that
happens, legacy investment will
continue to be a major impediment
to the rapid move to cloud native that
is necessary to address the changing
customer and regulatory environment.
Once the number of
applications moved to
cloud native achieves
critical mass, banks
can start making
large changes to their
existing infrastructure
to keep costs low."
Moving to an outside-in
delivery model
Capgemini has been working
with a major multi-national
bank to transform their core
cards processing platform by
progressively moving components
off and rebuilding them as cloud-
native microservices.
This represents a key element of
the bank’s cloud-native platform
strategy, as all applications are
transformed progressively into this
new form following an “outside-in”
delivery model. This will enable
banks to create a responsive
and rapidly evolving customer
experience while supporting the
drive to an open banking model.
12 Cloud Native Comes of Age in Banking 13
8. Re-architecting applications to
take advantage of cloud features by
decomposing monolithic applications
into easily consumable domain-specific
business transactions as microservices.
You’d typically want to consider this for
the same type of applications in the
lift-and-shift option for new application
development—high number of users,
dynamic, and external usage.
Replacing, on the other hand,
enables you to completely replace
core application and service platform
features with external services by
adopting a buy-not-build approach
to leverage Software-as-a-Service.
This offers greater scalability for core
application features and is a good
choice when dealing with:
• Applications that are maintenance-
intensive but do not carry features
specific to the organization
• Applications that require specialized
skills to develop and maintain
• Applications that use tools/
frameworks with high
licensing costs.
Finally, some applications (e.g.,
mainframe or AS/400 applications
for core banking functionality) may
need to be completely transformed by
rewriting them for a modern language
and framework.
We are seeing a lot of investment
and energy in this area due to the
large percentage of such applications
across the industry. To this end, many
organizations strive to progressively
remove complex non-core functions
from their mainframes as well as data
reporting and queries.
This process of “hollowing out”
or “impoverishment” is aimed at
reducing these platforms to core
processing engines while moving all
the applications with a high degree
of change into cloud native and
microservices applications.
This offers the greatest cost and agility
benefits in the long term, but requires
more upfront work, and should be
considered for:
• Applications with tightly
coupled functionalities
• Applications that have a complex
domain model which needs to
be normalized
• Applications that drive
business value
• Applications that are built as a
monolith.
Assessing your applications portfolio
Before you can embark on your cloud-native journey, a major question
remains—how to move away from the monolithic and antiquated
applications and deployments that companies have grown accustomed
to, and adopt an agile, efficient cloud-native approach?
A critical activity is to evaluate the
existing IT landscape and future
requirements for new applications
that support growth ambitions. By
analyzing the current application
portfolio aimed at growth, banks can
determine:
• Which existing applications could
be lifted and shifted to the cloud to
reduce costs and increase agility
• Which are no longer fit for purpose
and should be retired
• Which could be rewritten or
re-architected for a cloud
environment and take advantage
of cloud elasticity, accelerated
innovation, and rapid updates.
Your first option is to enable new
application development with a cloud-
native approach using microservices,
containers (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes,
etc.), and platforms such as Pivotal
Cloud Foundry. The microservices
approach provides several unique
features, including re-use, rapid
updates, elasticity, and scalability. This
is especially relevant for applications
with:
• A high number of users (or
potentially high)
• Dynamic usage (lots of spikes and
valleys)
• Externally accessible applications
(customers, suppliers, partners,
employees, etc.).
The lift-and-shift option requires
migrating existing application
platforms to the cloud with little or
no code modifications. This is the
fastest and simplest option, and can
commonly be used for:
• Applications where the business
case doesn’t support rewriting them
for the cloud
• COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf)
applications including ERP, Human
Resource Management, and other
enterprise workloads.
Not everything has to be moved to cloud native.
Applications that require frequent updates, and can
benefit the most from extreme elasticity, are the best
candidates.
Many companies in this industry are heavily invested in
their core banking applications. These don’t need to move
to cloud native right away, but a progressive move of
components of these platforms to cloud native or a cloud-
based deployment can help smooth the transition to a
future, cloud-native applications suite.
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9. Weighing up the technology options
Therighttechnologypathforyourenterprisewilldependontheoverall
directionofyourbusinessanditscloudstrategy,whichvendorsyouhave
alreadychosen,andwhetheryoupreferanoff-the-shelfplatformthatisready
todeployorfullcontrolofyourownplatformbuiltin-house.
Option 1:
Off-the-shelf
Platform-as-a-Service
Proven, Cloud Foundry-based
Platform-as-a-Service solutions,
such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry
and IBM Bluemix, make it easier
for you to develop, deploy, and
manage applications. They remove
undifferentiated workloads and
make pre-developed functionality,
connections, and frameworks available
for your own deployments so that
your developers can focus on building
business services.
These solutions can incur significant
upfront costs that need to be balanced
against the return on investment from
your applications in the longer term.
Vendor lock-in is a concern for many
companies, but workloads will usually
be portable to different underlying
cloud providers.
Recommended for companies with
significant cloud budget, that favor
simplicity and speed.
Option 2:
Public
Platform-as-a-Service
Leading public cloud providers such
as AWS and Microsoft also offer
PaaS-like capabilities that enable
developers to create applications easily
on their platforms. If you are already
working with one of these vendors,
extending your existing investments
to PaaS may offer advantages. Banks
looking to build their machine learning
capabilities should also evaluate what
these vendors are able to offer on their
platforms to enable these capabilities.
This option will most often imply a
major commitment to that public cloud
provider for a long time.
Recommended for companies that
have a clear strategy to concentrate
investments in one market-leading
public cloud vendor.
Option 3:
Custom PaaS solution
Another option is to create your own
custom PaaS platform, or work with a
partner to tailor one to you, typically
leveraging containers and container
orchestration. This can be exactly
tailored to the specifications of your
business, people, DevOps processes,
and innovation goals while minimizing
vendor lock-in.
This approach can lead to complexity
and a greater management workload.
It demands a strong skills base.
Significant initial investment in time
and resources will be needed to reach
the functionality offered by a pre-built
PaaS.
Recommended for companies with
clearly-defined, unique cloud ambitions
and significant in-house expertise.
Whatever their technology choice, in
order to realize the desired results
from their move to cloud native,
banks need to have a strong cloud
foundation. This includes a robust
strategy to manage their hybrid
cloud environment and a culture
that supports the microservices and
DevOps way of delivery.
How banks are planning to choose a PaaS platform
47%
plan to choose an off-
the-shelf platform
27%
are developing a
custom platform
in-house
41%
are seeking external
support to choose
the right platform
To comply with
regulations, banks
must ensure that they
have an alternate
fallback option to
their preferred PaaS,
which may even be an
on-premises PaaS.
16 Cloud Native Comes of Age in Banking 17
10. Effecting
cultural change
As those who’ve already made the
move know, the shift to cloud native is
more than just a technical transition;
it’s a complete culture change. And,
in traditionally risk-averse industries
such as banking, resistance to change
is often to be expected. In our
survey, 61% of respondents said
cloud native represents a cultural
challenge for their business.
In banks, a huge amount of tech tasks
and processes are still supported by
legacy technology. In some cases, that
technology has been around for so
long that itself has become a part of
the industry’s culture. People know
that technology, they trust it, and in
many cases, they may defend it with an
“if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” attitude.
To overcome this, CIOs must:
• Communicate the benefits of a
cloud-native approach for everyone
• Prioritize business flexibility
and velocity
• Drive a culture of innovation that
helps keep the business ahead of its
competitors.
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By 2020
“move to cloud
native is a
significant cultural
challenge”
61%
To fully unlock the
power of cloud native,
CIOs and other senior
business leaders need
to ensure everyone is
on the same team—
one that’s not only
ready for change, but
willing to embrace it."
Podcast: The importance
of culture in cloud native
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11. Building the team
of the future
Getting everybody to adopt a cloud-
native culture is only half the challenge.
Developing cloud-native applications
requires a team with strong knowledge
of PaaS and cloud-native solutions.
According to the survey, banks don’t
have all the necessary skills today.
68% of respondents in banking said
that cloud native represents a skills
challenge for their business.
DevOps is operational optimization,
so it represents significant changes for
development, test, and operational
teams and the skills they need to
succeed. To begin with, teams need to
be organized around products instead
of functions, so that the dev, test, and
ops teams can all support one another,
work more effectively in tandem, and
become self-sustaining.
The cloud-native approach goes one
step further, enabling fast, flexible
DevOps by connecting everyone in the
cloud and enabling easy collaboration
as well as simpler automated testing
and deployment. This will provide the
ideal platform for experimentation and
innovation.
In the cloud-native world, developers
need many skills that aren’t
traditionally related to development.
Rather than purely doing development
tasks, as they would when operating
in a functional silo, they also need
operations skills to make cross-
functional teams self-sustaining.
Agile, cloud-based development,
underpinned by a DevOps strategy,
can be a huge change for current
development teams, and the skills
required are very different to
traditional development. The industry
-recommended, 12-factor3
cloud
development capabilities are still rare
for many companies, and represent a
significant step forward for banks at
the beginning of their cloud-native
journey.
A team with cloud-native skills will
naturally think cloud native—and to do
so, it needs to be:
• Empowered with the tools and
platforms to develop cloud-native
applications and services
• Freed from legacy culture and
process burdens, so they can
develop at speed
• Aligned to a common goal,
with a shared understanding
of how cloud native can help
them achieve it.
“…cloud native
represents a skills
challenge”
68%
Podcast: How to build the
right cloud-native team
Listen Now
3 https://12factor.net/
A team-building challenge
Getting there won’t
be simple
In practice, this will require an
evolutionary approach—acquiring
and nurturing new capabilities slowly.
Many companies setting off on their
cloud-native journeys are defining their
own standards, customized to their
ambitions, opting to strive only for the
factors that really impact them and
help them achieve their goals. CIOs
acquiring and developing these skills
within their companies need to look
at the big picture. This isn’t a short-
term project that requires temporary
support—it’s a long-term investment
in building the team of the future.
Although the ambition will be to build
a team that can develop cloud-native
applications based on the 12-factor
application guidelines, it might not
always be practical to consider this as
the starting point.
The diagram above shows how
operations look when they’re built
around dedicated product teams
instead of siloed functional IT teams.
Each product team has all the skills
it needs from all of the discrete IT
functions required to serve those
products effectively.
These teams facilitate more efficient
operations and communication
across the company, ensuring
everyone involved with a product
fully understands the needs and
requirements of those working
alongside them.
This is the backbone of efficient
DevOps and ultimately ensures
the timely delivery of the very best
outcomes possible, every time.
Aligningoperationsaroundproductteams
Line of
Business Leader
Operations
Leader
Ops Shared
Services
CIO
Business Analyst
Community
QA
Community
Architect
Community
Security, etc.
DevelopersBAs Integrated,
dedicated
product teams
IT operationsTesterSMEs
Developer
Community
CTO
Product Owner
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12. Educate, enable, and enforce:
making cloud native a reality
4 https://www.capgemini.com/service/introducing-the-world-fintech-report-2017/
Executive leadership
support and buy-in is
the most cited (64%)
of all the success
factors for applying
innovation as part of
a FinTech strategy"
With the right team in place, the
next step is to secure buy-in to a
cloud-native approach across the
organization. We should also observe
that buy-in doesn’t just refer to
users and IT staff. 44% percent of
respondents believe a lack of senior
stakeholder engagement is a barrier to
their cloud-native strategy.
This senior-level support is vital, as
evidenced in Capgemini’s World
FinTech Report 2017.4
Executive
leadership support and buy-in is the
most cited (64%) of all the success
factors for applying innovation as part
of a FinTech strategy—and, as we
have seen, cloud native underpins this
innovation. It helps to improve agility
and a bank’s risk-taking ability, both
of which are increasingly essential as
banks start to work with, or compete
against, the FinTechs.
For employees below the senior level,
getting them on board may be slightly
more complicated. That this wider
buy-in is a major contributory factor
in achieving competitive advantage
(and taking on the FinTechs) through
innovation, is borne out in the World
FinTech Report 2017. A “lack of
conducive culture for innovation” is the
most-cited factor (40%) holding back
traditional firms while implementing
innovative and FinTech capabilities.
Rather than rolling cloud native out
like another approach to development,
everyone needs to learn to think cloud
native before making any technical
leaps. Beyond the physical and
technical changes required to execute
a cloud-native strategy, people must
learn to:
• Fail fast and accept failure as an
essential method of identifying
issues early
• Think in terms of specific working
patterns such as replatforming
and refactoring to make the best
decisions based on application, time,
and cost demands
• Share knowledge and communicate
continuously.
Each business will execute cloud
native in its own way, but the key to
everyone’s success will be breaking
the process down, and approaching
it iteratively—tackling the technical,
cultural, and structural challenges
separately, and over time.
To help promote cloud-native adoption
and overcome reluctance to change, IT
leaders can follow the three “Es”:
Educate:
Teach everyone to work in cloud-
native ways, show them that it’s OK
to fail fast, and train them for the
technological changes, as well as the
operational ones that will impact who
they work with, and how they work
with them.
Enable:
Provide software frameworks
and sample code to developers to
help them become accustomed to
cloud-native development faster,
and give your people the means to
communicate, collaborate, and work
effectively as they adapt to agile, cloud
native, and DevOps.
Enforce:
All your teams need to be supported
by clearly defined digital standards
that keep them aligned. Standards and
governance ensure that while self-
sustaining teams work freely in the
ways that best suit them, everything is
kept aligned across the organization,
and efforts are never duplicated when
building similar microservices.
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Learning from cloud-native
leaders
Discover how companies
are using their move to
cloud native to reinvent
themselves for digital
business.
Banks that successfully transition to a
cloud-native approach can expect to
enjoy increased agility, flexibility, and
scalability. In fact, 84% of leaders feel
confident they are now ahead of their
peers financially thanks to their move
to cloud native.
Our research shows that cloud-native
leaders are already seeing significant
results , including:
• 84% of cloud-native leaders say
cloud-native applications have
increased their revenue—compared
to just 44% of cloud-native laggards
• 83% of cloud-native leaders
consider themselves ahead of their
peers when it comes to financial
performance, compared to 59% of
cloud-native laggards
• 88% of cloud-native leaders say
that the cloud-native approach
has improved their business agility,
while 87% say it has enabled them
to provide a better experience to
their customers.
For banks, the end result of successful
cloud-native adoption is:
• A faster, more agile, and more
flexible business capable of
changing and rolling out new
applications and services to meet
new demands at speed
• An infrastructure built to support
the flexible experiences demanded
by today’s digital customers
• A simplified approach to complying
with emerging regulations
governing this industry
• A platform for continuous
operational improvement
and innovation
• A more cost-effective base for all
enterprise technology, free from the
burdens of legacy monoliths
• A faster, more collaborative, and
more empowered development
team with all the tools necessary to
innovate with ease.
What cloud-native
success looks like … increased revenue
… ahead of peers in terms of financial performance
… improved business agility
… enabled better customer experience
84%
83%
88%
87%
Measuring success for cloud-native leaders:
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14. Recommendations
Three things that will help your bank maximize the benefits
of its cloud-native transformation.
Managing compliance
with current and
impending regulations
Every country has its own
interpretation of the regulations
governing the banking industry, such
as GDPR, CRS, and PSD2. Cloud native
requires engineering discipline and
enforcement of standards. These
characteristics mean that compliance
with emerging standards can be built
in to new applications and services
proactively, instead of being addressed
as an afterthought.
Focus on differentiated
sales and marketing
applications to deliver
winning customer
experiences
The supreme agility and flexibility of
cloud-native applications are critical to
the continuous innovation that helps
banks differentiate their customer
experiences. Banks should focus
their cloud-native adoption plans
around such applications as online
banking, customer-facing websites or
mobile apps, loyalty programs, digital
marketing, in-branch digitization, etc.
This is where cloud-native applications
help banks build sustained competitive
advantage and take on the FinTechs in
today’s fast-paced market.
Build insights from
digital customer data
for personalized
digital engagement
The extreme elasticity and scalability
of cloud native makes it ideal to run
big data and analytics applications to
manage the growing variety, velocity,
and volume of data being generated
today. This will enable banks to quickly
convert this data into meaningful
insights that fuel personalized digital
engagement programs.
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15. Get the full
research report
See how banking compares
to other industries in the
race to go cloud native—
and get a closer look
at what a cloud-native
strategy could help you
achieve. Download the full
research report:
Cloud native comes of age:
What businesses need to know.
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