Case Study

Big 4 Bank: Cloud Migration Leadership

Driving velocity and value realisation in a large cloud migration program.

At a Glance

DigiRen provided executive delivery leadership to one of Australia’s largest banks to accelerate its cloud migration program with Microsoft. By embedding senior leaders into key roles, DigiRen streamlined delivery, fostered collaboration, and helped the bank transition to a fully insourced migration model. The result: over 200% increase in migration velocity and 25% year-on-year cost efficiencies, lifting cloud adoption from 50% to over 70%.

200%
increase in annual ​migration velocity​
25%
YoY reduction in ​average per-app ​migration cost​
20%
increase of % apps on ​Cloud over the period​

Challenge

Our client is one of the largest financial institutions in Australia. The bank employs more than 30,000 people, serving 9 million customers, at over 900 locations. In 2020 the client launched an ambitious cloud migration program in partnership with Microsoft that involved the migration of hundreds of legacy applications to public cloud. The program set out to accelerate the bank's adoption of cloud services to deliver increased resilience and reliability, reduced risk & cost, and drive business advantage. It was to pave the way for future innovation by focusing on the user experience and become a beacon to attract the best cloud skills that could deliver new ways of working for the bank.

The challenge for DigiRen

To accelerate the bank's adoption of cloud services by providing executive delivery leadership throughout the migration program.

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Approach

Our client engaged DigiRen to provide executive delivery leadership of its ambitious cloud migration program, given the prior experience DigiRen had in leading large migration programs for organisations across Australia and broader APAC region. ​

DigiRen integrated a pod of two senior leaders into the roles of Program Delivery Executive and Change Management Lead between March 2021 – December 2022, where they collaborated with the customer and their partners to leverage our simple, innovative, best practice methodologies.

Outcomes

Supported by strong executive sponsorship, DigiRen collaborated with customer stakeholders across the bank and its partner ecosystem, to lead the transition to a fully insourced delivery model and optimise the bank's migration delivery methodology, driving:

>200%
increase in migration velocity
25%
YoY per application migration cost efficiencies which enabled the bank to increase its % apps on cloud from 50% to >70% over the period.
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