Retail industry has gone through a significant transformation in the last decade; caused by the change in consumer behaviour and expectations which have been driven by the convenience and low cost offered by Amazon. There are clear signs of a similar disruption in the financial services industry now, driven by new entrants who are changing consumer expectations. In this talk, Rahul looks at the evolution of retailers and draws conclusions about the path players in the financial services have to take to compete and provide customer experiences that will be necessary to compete.
ScaleFocus Digital Transformation in Finance Expertise
Similar to Dynamic Talks: "Digital Transformation in Banking & Financial Services… a perspective from an outsider" - Rahul Bindlish, VP of Sales at Grid Dynamics
Building more value with Capital Markets – Project Owner editionaccenture
Similar to Dynamic Talks: "Digital Transformation in Banking & Financial Services… a perspective from an outsider" - Rahul Bindlish, VP of Sales at Grid Dynamics (20)
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Technology changes that have supported this transformation
● Package software to open source based custom software
● On premise infrastructure to Cloud
● Intuitive front end on modern technology stack
● Distributed, scalable microservices based backend architecture
● Data platforms supporting predictive analytics
● Starting to use ML / AI to solve complex business problems
● Agile processes supported by automation (Devops / CICD / QA)
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Forrester Infographic: Learn From The Best In Your Digital Transformation Journey
The Benchmark Report In The Digital Business Playbook
by Ted Schadler and Mike Chirokas
with Martin Gill, Katie Hampton, Cheryl Hart, Charlie Ruhl, and Peter Harrison
April 3, 2019
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Organizational recommendations
● Customer centric vs Product centric focus
● Service oriented organizations
● Cross functional teams
● Devops culture & skills
● Site reliability
● Outsourcing strategy : co-innovation & co-creation
The Forrester Wave™: Midsize Agile Software Development Service Providers,
Q2 2019
by Duncan Jones and Christopher Condo
May 29, 2019
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Technology recommendations
● Leverage Cloud technologies : IaaS, PaaS
● Custom engineering to create differentiation
● Modern technologies
Distributed, scalable microservices
Intuitive front end
● Predictive analytics to drive differentiated customer experience
Personalization
DevOps culture is enabled by a service-oriented organization and cross-functional teams. In many companies with existing DevOps departments, such departments should be built according to the principles of a service-oriented organization. In practical terms, it means that DevOps organization is split in the following way:
Microservices platform - this works on top of vanilla Infrastructure as a Service and bridges the gap between application and infrastructure. This is achieved by implementing technology capabilities of service registry and discovery, secret management, deployment, application lifecycle management, service mesh, logging, monitoring, distributed tracing and others.
CICD (change management) platform - this implements core tooling for build, code review, continuous integration, continuous deployment, test harness, audit trail, management dashboards and others. The platform is also used to enforce corporate change management policies according to executable policy principles.
Specialized deployment and CI engineers embedded into application teams, where application developers lack skills in these areas.