Innovating Financial Services

Overview

Bluestone had a vision for further expansion and growth and sought to modernise key aspects of their business. The ability to securely integrate technology with partners without changing their legacy loan platform was high on the agenda.

Flexibility was required, without compromising the protection of their customers’ data. With growth in their digital business, they needed a solution that could keep up with their customers’ changing needs.

Challenge

A skillset gap in delivering a modern cloud solution on time, and to standard

Bluestone sought to improve their ability to securely integrate technology with partners without changing their legacy platform. They required a flexible solution that could adapt to their customers’ changing needs without compromising the protection of their customers’ data.

But not having that skillset native to our business, we could not deliver a project of this scale on time and to the standard that we’re looking.

Tim Miller
Chief Operations Officer, Bluestone

Solution

Co-locating Telstra Purple experts into Bluestone business operations

The Telstra Purple team brought in their deep knowledge of solution architecture, Azure infrastructure, application development and DevOps to modernise this area of operations,and prepare it for future expansion and upgrades.

The modernisation of Bluestone’s core mortgage platform with Azure involved near real-time integration and data flows with customers to improve business communications.

Telstra Purple delivered a complete cloud solution while also providing Bluestone with process improvements, training, and reference architectures. The Telstra Purple team co-located with Bluestone for eight months, fully immersing themselves into the company and culture.

Highly automated, the solution reduced risk and deployment time and maximised quality.

By bringing together their experts and co-locating them in our business, Telstra Purple was able to quickly deliver a flexible cloud solution that will grow as our business does.

Tim Miller
Chief Operations Officer, Bluestone

The impact

Future proof for future projects along the cloud journey

The solution, delivered from design to deployment, aligned to Bluestone’s growth strategy. Having a co-located team, not only brought expertise, but also exposure to opportunities to improve process and culture which resulted in better solution delivery.

The shift to Azure infrastructure allowed Bluestone to rapidly upgrade ageing hardware without requiring expensive on-premise infrastructure. “Our intention is to move our business to the cloud, and I think the framework we’ve built with Telstra Purple has set us up for future projects as we go further along our cloud journey," says Tim.

The capability and architecture developed for the project have been used for subsequent projects and will continue to be used in future, cutting down the duration of future designs and builds.

Satisfied with the solution and the experience of working with Telstra Purple, Bluestone now looks to continue the collaboration beyond their initial project. “After delivering this first project, the Telstra Purple team went immediately into another one which they are currently finalising, before they start scoping work on a third project,” Tim concludes.

As a business, we’ve got a pretty tight culture, and Telstra Purple have seamlessly folded into our team. The experience was absolutely trouble-free, and the work was of the highest quality.

Tim Miller
Chief Operations Officer, Bluestone