Design and execution of digital strategies

Cloud Strategy & Adoption
“Why should I be adopting cloud now?”

• Analysis of applications, infrastructure platforms and environments from a service perspective

• Expertise in strategy, enterprise architecture, cloud integration approaches, data security & governance and cloud operating models

• Cloud solutions which exceed your existing security standards and manage data sovereignty concerns / limitations

• Design of auto-scaling, resilient cloud services for Dev Ops, DR on demand and production workloads across a broad range of technologies

Cloud Provider Selection

• Comprehensive analysis of cloud providers and matching to business operating models
• Evaluation between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS options
• Cost / benefits analysis, SLA structures and procurement

Cloud Service Migrations

• Cloud architecture blueprints and roadmaps to support phased transformational change programmes
• Integration of cloud platforms, and hybrid cloud management tools
• Hybrid cloud as an enabler to accelerate business change and extend system capacity for peak loads

How we’ve helped our clients

An Investment Fund implemented a scalable private cloud solution, which enabled growth by acquisition

• PwC helped the client design, build, test, and implement a complete technology function appropriate for a start-up banking franchise, including core banking systems and applications.

• The delivered cloud platform provides agility and scalability, is highly available, robust in features, and in compliance with regulatory and compliance requirements.

Private cloud platform for a multi-national insurance company

• The private cloud solution included the build-out of four data centres, three regional production centres, and one disaster recovery centre, with each taking three months.
• PwC helped enable: improved standardisation, speed and efficiency; risk management capabilities; consolidation of the IT infrastructure of 15+ countries; administrative segregation; and compliance with Payment Card Industry compliance (PCI) requirements.

Data systems’ integration on a custom cloud platform for a Financial Services Provider

• Addressed the complex and uneconomic network that spanned across more than 100 data centres.
• Created a reliable and secure cloud platform and standardised its enterprise software.

Technology Strategy & Operating Model
“How do I know my IT can adapt to changing priorities?”

How we can help
Technology Business-Enablement Strategy

• Develop business aligned strategic vision
• Target IT operating model development
• Governance framework

Technology Innovation Strategy

• Identify innovation requirements
• Define innovation operating model

Technology Portfolio Optimisation

• Develop change roadmap to deliver strategy
• Build technology strategy and IT function case for change
• Business case for IT function transformation and application evolution

IT Operating Model Transformation

• Design Target Operating Model for IT to enable and deliver the Technology Strategy
• Deliver the IT Operating Model Transformation

How we’ve helped our clients
Global Investment Bank

• Defined and executed the strategy to simplify the IT environment with the aim of eliminating reliance on external IT providers and generating a new and more user-friendly suite of tools and applications.
• Assessed the current state of technology applications and infrastructure in order to determine a future state technology strategy to support business goals and address legacy challenges. PwC engaged stakeholders across the organization with a focus on those outside of IT. PwC also engaged customers to determine how their needs could be met by a technology strategy.

Leading UK General Insurer

• Worked with the business and IT communities to provide a current state assessment, future state architecture definition and roadmap of initiatives in order to deliver the Claims capabilities required to meet the strategic business aspirations.

Leading FS Business

• Reviewed and assessed their £60m annual strategic IT change portfolio, identifying the desired end-state technology architecture and developing a roadmap to deliver the required business capabilities and applications.

Enterprise Architecture
“We need an integrated business & technology future vision, where do we start?”

How we can help
Enterprise Architecture

• As-is architecture landscape development
• Future state technology requirements
• Target architecture landscape development
• IT roadmap and transition states development
• Develop technology standards and principles

Architecture Assurance

• IT landscape due diligence
• Architecture governance health check
• Architecture artefact review
• Architecture methodology assurance
• Design authority set-up and operation

How we’ve helped our clients
Global Financial Services Institution

• Defined Enterprise Architecture vision & strategy to drive greater synergies, efficiencies, and architecture alignment across multiple global business units.

Leading UK General Insurer

• Defined future state architecture, including impact on current applications and identification of target state solutions, to underpin a multi-year transformation of the Finance function.

Specialist UK Motor Insurer

• Assessed and provided recommendations to refine the target architecture for a fraud detection improvement programme.