Artea Bank has successfully navigated a rapid digital transformation to the public cloud, establishing itself as a front-runner in the banking sector. Partnering with Devoteam and leveraging a strategic partnership with Microsoft, Artea utilised managed services underpinned by automation and advanced AI solutions. This has led to faster response times, enhanced security, and a continuous learning mindset, ensuring Artea’s resiliency and accuracy, while accelerating its speed to market.

The Customer and Context 

Artea is a Lithuanian capital bank, a steadily growing financial partner that combines a modern, innovative approach with deep client relationships. The bank focuses on providing expert solutions in key areas, including retail banking, saving and investing, business financing, and consumer financing. By leveraging their forward-thinking mindset and commitment to constant improvement, Artea aims to be a financial partner that is always closer to the needs and ambitions of every resident and business in Lithuania. 

The Challenge

Artea’s digital transformation was set against a backdrop of intense competition and the need for rapid technological modernisation to meet evolving customer demand. The main challenge was to migrate banking services to a public cloud environment with exceptionally short deadlines. The bank was also mitigating geopolitical risks by diversifying its physical infrastructure. This high-stakes project required a partner that could not only manage the technical complexity but also ensure regulatory compliance and cost efficiency throughout the transition. Artea operated its core infrastructure from a data center in a single location. Maintaining and upgrading hardware and software had become increasingly complex, while disaster recovery and business continuity required strengthening. The client also needed to accelerate resource deployment and improve scalability to meet growing demand. 

The Solution 

To meet these demanding requirements, Artea chose to partner with Devoteam’s Managed Services, forming a strategic partnership with Microsoft. Devoteam provided a comprehensive suite of services, including Managed Public Cloud, Cloud Compliance, and Cloud Economics services, all built on the robust Microsoft cloud ecosystem. This collaboration ensured seamless service delivery and high quality of services, leveraging Microsoft’s industry-leading expertise in security and resilience. This partnership allows Artea to focus on its business objectives while Devoteam handles the operational complexities, utilising its expertise in cloud, hyper-automation and AI. Migration was performed for 247 virtual servers from Lithuanian data center to a cloud landing zone deployed using a CAF-based framework for automatic deployments with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 

Main Results and Benefits for Artea

The collaboration yielded significant benefits for Artea, solidifying its position as a leader in digital banking. These are the main benefits:

And what’s next?

A bank as a trust organisation ensures availability, security and reliability of services to the customers that requires continuous innovation and the successful migration is just the beginning of Artea’s cloud journey. In the next phase, Artea and Devoteam will keep focusing on optimising the new environment and further leveraging its capabilities to drive business growth and innovation, including:

• Modernisation of core applications: Transition of legacy workloads and databases to modern and cloud-native platforms.
• Cloud costs optimisations: Implementation of continuous cost management and optimisation program.
• Security and compliance improvements: Conduct periodic assessments and automated remediation to maintain governance 
• Enhancement of platform resilience: Improve disaster recovery and business continuity across cloud environments.