Case study · Financial services
Core reporting live on a regulated cloud — in 11 weeks.
How a GCC financial group moved its regulated reporting estate off ageing hardware onto the Financial Services Cloud — without a compliance gap, and without missing a reporting deadline.
4,000 employeesGCC · sovereign dataBusiness ExperienceAnonymised · full version under NDA
11 weeks
Objective to live
0
Missed reporting deadlines
100%
Data in-country
24/7
Operated since day one
At a glance
Sector
Financial services group
Size
4,000 employees · GCC
Experience
Business Experience · Financial Services Cloud
Commercial model
Flat monthly fee, agreed before migration
The objective
Regulated reporting workloads were running on hardware due for refresh, with the regulator expecting demonstrable data residency and auditable controls at the next review. The board set one constraint: the move could not put a single statutory reporting deadline at risk.
What we assembled
Business Experience · Financial Services Cloud
A pre-governed environment with financial-sector controls mapped before the first workload landed.
Oditr · control mapping and evidence
Regulatory requirements translated into continuously checked technical controls.
Migration Services · wave-planned cutover
Three waves, each rehearsed in an isolated bubble with rollback armed.
Prime Cloud Servers + Block Storage
VMware-aligned compute with NVMe-tier volumes under the reporting databases.
Operated by us · managed operations
Patching, monitoring, backup and the SLA matrix from the first morning.
How the 11 weeks ran
Weeks 1–3Assessment and control mappingInventory, dependency map and every regulatory control mapped in Oditr before anything moved.
Weeks 4–8Landing zone and rehearsalsFinancial Services Cloud stood up; each migration wave rehearsed end to end against the real data volumes.
Weeks 9–10Cutover in agreed windowsTwo production waves cut over outside reporting windows, rollback armed and unused.
Week 11First reporting cycle on cloudStatutory pack produced on the new estate — on time, with evidence exported for the regulator.
The result
0 findings
Infrastructure findings at the next regulatory review
100%
Availability through the first full reporting quarter
1 invoice
Flat monthly figure — unchanged since the day it was agreed
“We stopped negotiating with hardware lead times and started publishing on time. The audit was the quietest we have had.”
Group CIO · name withheld under NDA
What happened next
In the following quarter the group addedDisaster Recoverywith quarterly drills, and switched estate monitoring toObersva — both inside the same flat fee.
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