Telenor Microfinance Bank – Together We Innovate

Our Partner

Premier Systems was founded in 1993 and has been providing solution that are the bedrock of system integration and ICT infrastructure to various customers in Pakistan.

With their deep expertise in VMware products Premier Systems enabled TMB to adopt best practices of DevOps and transform the way they developed, tested and rolled out applications.
As a trusted advisor for TMB, Premier Systems continued to manage and provide support for the bank’s primary and disaster recovery sites after helping to deploy VMware vSphere, HPE Synergy, HPE 3Par Storage and Juniper Security Devices.
The number of transactions on Easypaisa has tripled since the pandemic started, and they have seen tremendous growth in active users. This meant they needed the capacity to test new ideas, and Premier Systems was instrumental in improving their time to market for new products

The Story

Telenor Microfinance Bank (TMB) launched its mobile wallet Easypaisa to allow consumers to make digital payments instead of using cash. But its IT infrastructure could not support the small-ticket transactions on the application. After VMware and systems integrator Premier Systems deployed VMware vSphere with Tanzu, the bank could scale up quickly by spinning up containers in minutes instead of the days required for virtual machines.

Customer Name: Telenor Microfinance Bank
Solutions Platform: App Modernization
Country: Pakistan
Industry: Financial Services
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The bank’s transactions hover around 110 million to 120 million a month, and it needed a way to achieve scale very quickly.
It wanted to better optimize resources for these small-ticket, big-volume transaction

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Premier Systems recommended TMB adopt VMware vSphere with Tanzu.
It includes Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service, to enable the bank to automate the delivery of containerized workloads and proactively manage apps in production.

Scalability increased with the services and applications on the Tanzu platform
Ease and manageability when deploying fresh code into the app which happens regularly throughout the day
Significant reduction in downtime: the autoscaler feature automatically creates new containers and ports in response to traffic spikes.
The Kubernetes-based infrastructure not only helped the bank optimize the use of compute resources, but also enabled it to adopt DevOps best practices in streamlining application development, testing and rollout. As a result, the bank could bring new innovations to market much faster

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