In our pursuit of Sustainable Business Agility (our strategic approach to digital transformation), a strong future-ready cloud foundation was ensured by engineering “SwissAlps,” our platform as a product on Microsoft Azure. The journey was full of learnings, which we would like to share with the community.
The key focus of our talk is on sharing the journey with associated lessons – how we engineered our service delivery platform using best practices such as platform-as-a-product, flow framework, DevSecOps and Infrastructure as code. Out story-line focus on –
- Context: Why a Swiss-hosted cloud platform was crucial to our digital ambitions
- Anatomy of SwissAlps: Our Cloud platform, its core building blocks, and offerings for our firm
- The mechanisms: How we engineered an effective and efficient platform as a product and some examples
- Learnings: The lessons we learnt along the way and how we navigated “non-engineering” complexities
- Key Takeaways: What’s our advice for peers who are on a similar journey towards the cloud in Switzerland
