FINASTRA
to support our employees to work from home . Almost 9,000 of our people found themselves in unfamiliar territory overnight . We had to fast-track ways to help them work , collaborate and find a digital balance in this modern , flexible working environment .
“ We ’ ve moved many of our products to the cloud , improving agility . Automation also plays a key role everywhere these days , it ’ s become table stakes ”
RUSS SOPER CIO , FINASTRA
That ’ s one of the things I find fascinating about my role at Finastra - the variety and broad scope of projects , technologies and people I work with on a daily basis .”
This variety is , in part , driven by an industry that is continually evolving , both in the way consumers , businesses , corporates and other banks engage with financial institutions , and the technology and security considerations to support this evolution . Infrastructure , says Soper , is a crucial element of delivering innovation at scale and pace . “ Years ago , the options were relatively straightforward .”
“ Institutions managed their environments on-premise in their own data centre . The services aspect of the industry evolved , giving rise to a wave of outsourcing deals . And these have now evolved further still ; private cloud , public cloud , hybrid models , multi-cloud . Financial Services is just one of the industries that has seen a tremendous shift . And for those who were still on the fence , the pandemic has only accelerated the need for digital transformation .”
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