ANZ New Zealand, the country's largest financial services group, worked with Red Hat to increase productivity and time to market through the adoption of agile practices and automation, announced Red Hat.
Through a residency with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs and use of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ANZ New Zealand reduced the time required for end-to-end DNS provisioning from six days to five minutes, a time savings of 99.4%.
Faced with time-consuming routine and repeatable network operations tasks, ANZ New Zealand decided to transition to a cloud-first approach focused on automation and site reliability engineering. However, many of these IT business processes, including patching and provisioning servers, require a manual governance process around technical work. Automating these tasks can depend entirely on the adoption of new technology tools, IT processes and behavioral changes, which can be difficult to accomplish. Additionally, ANZ New Zealand sought to develop and establish a culture of new ways of collaborative working in order to support its commitment to talent acquisition and retention.
To help address its transition to a more agile, cloud-first strategy, ANZ New Zealand turned to Red Hat, specifically Red Hat Open Innovation Labs. The immersive residency program aims to help organizations integrate people, practices and technology to increase agility in the development of software and products, catalyze innovation and solve internal challenges in an accelerated time frame. During the six-week engagement, ANZ New Zealand’s teams gained a new understanding of how modern automation technologies like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can transform complex IT landscapes. They also became well-versed in agile development practices, including continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), culminating in the team finding new ways to connect with other corporate groups for more effective work, establishing a new culture of collaboration and community.
Sajeeve Bahl, VP and Head of Services for Asia Pacific and Japan, Red Hat
Through the focus on automating repeatable tasks, ANZ New Zealand is making tangible, important changes not only to how it uses technology, but to the culture of working. We are excited to see what ANZ New Zealand does next.
Neal Meachen, Senior Manager, Networks and Voice, ANZ New Zealand
Red Hat has helped us to develop an ‘automation-first’ mindset, and as a result, automate many processes that have traditionally been manual and time-consuming.
