Sonae is a multinational group managing a diversified portfolio of businesses in retail, financial services, technology, shopping centres and telecommunications. Sonae Financial Services, a business segment responsible for fostering financial services, was looking for a Microsoft Partner experienced in Azure PaaS services to improve their real-time information processing.
It was the collaboration methodology called DX: as a Service that made possible Xpand IT’s team multidisciplinary and scalable approach when delivering different projects over the years. Considering all initiatives Xpand IT is developing, Sonae FS now has the capacity to answer 4 times more requests compared to the beginning of the project and is able to see real-time information on the dashboards.
“At Sonae Financial Services, we look for partners who challenge us to take full advantage of cloud technologies and boost our business.
We’ve found with Xpand IT a partner that adds technological value and helps us improve our value proposition while being able to adapt to our needs with the agility that today’s real-time businesses require”
Paulo Lima – Head of IT, Sonae Financial Services
Main Benefits:
- Stakeholders can consult centralised information in real-time
- Greater efficiency and agility: Sonae FS has processed 5 million requests with an average answer time of 0,3 seconds in the last 30 days
- The solution allows for scalability, traceability and control of information
- More detailed information that results in saving time while trying to identify specific errors
Main Technology Used:
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform.
Azure has integrated tools, pre-built templates and managed services, meaning that developers and IT professionals can quickly build and manage their apps with technologies that they already know, using skills that they already have.
Furthermore, Azure can support the main operating systems and almost every programming language, framework, tool, database and device.