Background

Capitec, one of the largest retail banks in South Africa, was hosting their entire data estate on a on-prem that was coming to end of life. The system was failing regularly leading to data losses, often resulting in the inability for it to come online.

15 years worth of data was at risk of being lost, with critical business functions such as regulatory reporting and forecasting across the entire bank being impacted.

Objectives

Entelect was tasked with helping migrate the data hosted on the on-prem solution to Azure Synapse expeditiously. This solution aimed to ensure a stable data estate, enabling teams to access data consistently, and accommodating for future scalability.

Implementation

The team faced the challenge of migrating data from a failing server while it ran crucial workloads on a daily basis. This required extensive collaboration, which resulted in consistent progress.

The project utilised Azure tools that provided data warehousing, system integration and orchestration of data pipelines, and analytics and query capabilities.

The migration process moved over 14 000 database objects, and involved rewriting code and optimising where possible, while replicating the existing orchestration.