Leading South African financial services technology consultancy Elenjical has become only the third global provider to be endorsed by Amazon Web Services for its ability to migrate Murex enterprise capital markets technology platforms onto the Cloud.

Elenjical is an AWS partner company and has been recruiting and upskilling engineers with Cloud migration competences, ahead of a surge in demand for companies wanting to shift from proprietary servers to a more modern, Cloud-based approach. While a migration expert at the complex Murex trading platform, Elenjical can also move all types of enterprise system to the Cloud. Benefits of the shift include improving ongoing business processes and driving new sources of competitive advantage.

 

Top systems integrator, says Amazon

“We are pleased to have been recognised by Amazon for our Cloud expertise, as a top system integrator and our deep understanding of highly complex applications, making for a perfect combination,” says Elenjical’ Thabiso Romosolo, the consultancy’s head of Murex. “By making use of Cloud-based, fully managed services we help clients shift responsibility for hardware procurement, updates, security patching, monitoring and reporting all onto the Cloud provider. This frees up resources to focus on other important topics, such as production stability.”

 

 

The Cloud is the foundation for this new, agile business world and Elenjical is a leader in helping organisations make the move and take advantage of the effective use of technology. The AWS Cloud supports data sharing, collaboration, communication and overall productivity.

 

In the insurance giant’s Cloud migration project, Elenjical moved its entire front-to-back and risk Murex stack to Amazon Web Services while completing a Murex upgrade to the latest MX.3 version. The team also implemented Apache Airflow as the client’s new workflow scheduler - all in nine months, where such a migration usually takes several years. Elenjical’s team migrated the insurer’s Murex platform onto the Cloud without slowing production down.

 

“The Cloud is a great place to move enterprise software workloads,” says Colyn Van Zyl, head of infrastructure at Elenjical. “Besides speeding up production and giving extra functionality, our client now benefits from lower maintenance and overall costs. Creating any number of new development environments now takes just minutes to set up, compared to weeks or even months as the reliance on traditional, non-scalable hardware was removed.”