PUBLISHED DATE: 2026-11-12 00:16:18
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Global Investment Firm Cuts Costs 20% by Moving 80 Websites to AWS
Moving asset management websites in 48 countries and eight languages off on-premise servers.
Summary
Moving the firm’s web estate to the cloud ended legacy licensing costs and made every site faster and more reliable.
- 20 % cost reduction
- 99 % uptime SLA
- 75 %+ better application performance
Global Investment Management Firm Speeds Up Decision Time by 33%
Client Leading Global Investment Firm
Industry Financial Services
Topic Cloud & Infrastructure
Partner AWS
In this customer story
Intro
The Problem
The Solution
The Impact
Intro
Hampered by legacy on-premises systems, our client—a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm—recognized the need for transformation. So, they turned to the Publicis Sapient team—and our proven SPEED philosophy and deep engineering capabilities—to modernize their mission-critical workloads from on-premises to a cloud-native environment on AWS.
The Problem
Built on various outdated technologies, our client’s on-premises environment and legacy workloads posed significant challenges. Slow deployment processes hindered their agility and time-to-market, while limited deployment options and potential downtime due to component failure posed substantial risks. Additionally, the growing costs associated with maintaining and licensing these legacy systems were a mounting concern.
The Solution
Publicis Sapient conducted a comprehensive assessment of our client’s Asset Management (AM) digital external web properties, leveraging AWS cloud-native assessment tools, industry-leading practices, and close collaboration with the client's engineering team. This thorough evaluation laid the foundation for a well-defined business case and detailed migration roadmap.
The solution involved migrating and modernizing AM web properties for 48 countries with 12 "Individual Investor" sites, 24 "Financial Intermediaries" sites, and 44 "Institutional Sites," supporting eight different languages.
The Impact
By migrating to AWS, the company overcame the limitations of their on-premises environment and legacy workloads, unlocking numerous benefits:
- Faster time-to-market and quicker adoption of new technologies
- Improved developer experience and increased team productivity
- Enhanced application performance and resiliency through scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure
- Robust monitoring and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices for proactive issue detection and resolution
- Significant cost savings by eliminating legacy licensing costs
Our client can now focus on delivering superior digital experiences to their customers and staying ahead of the competition in the rapidly evolving financial services industry.
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