Enterprise-Cloud-Native - Fast-Paced Development & Deployment in a Highly Secure Banking Environment

How do you recapture startup agility in a highly regulated bank? See how one platform automates secure dev environments to serve 50 million customers.

#1about 2 minutes

Introduction to Finanz Informatik and its banking services

Finanz Informatik is the digitalization partner for Germany's Sparkasse banks, operating the largest finance cloud in the EU and serving over 50 million customers.

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Modernizing development with a multi-channel architecture

The multi-channel architecture provides a standardized SDK based on Spring Boot and modern tools like GitHub and Docker to simplify development on top of the core banking system.

#3about 3 minutes

Recreating the startup "garage feeling" for enterprise developers

The goal is to eliminate slow enterprise processes and provide a developer experience that fosters the creativity and speed of a startup.

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Live demo of automated project setup and generation

A custom tool based on Spring Initializr automatically generates a complete project with a GitHub repository and a Jenkins pipeline in seconds.

#5about 5 minutes

Building and deploying a cloud-native service via CI/CD

The demo shows a CI/CD pipeline that builds the application, runs tests, creates a container image and Helm chart, and deploys the service to a test environment.

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Audience participation in the live deployed application

The audience is invited to scan a QR code to interact with the newly deployed application and participate in a competition, with assurances of data privacy.

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Key learnings for driving innovation in the enterprise

Three key takeaways for fostering innovation are to start small, leverage inner source collaboration, and adopt a "just do it" mindset to overcome organizational inertia.