Searce Drives Efficiency and Innovation for Fintech Leader Finder
Challenges
Finder is a comparison platform that offers comparison details across 200+ product categories, including bank cards, loans, savings, insurance, electricity and gas, etc. It is a leading fintech platform with over 4 million monthly visitors spanning across 20+ countries, half of those on its Australian site alone, making it the country’s most-visited comparison website. Headquartered in Sydney with offices globally, Finder empowers users to make smarter financial decisions through innovative comparison tools. They are dedicated to being the world’s go-to destination for comparing financial products and services, helping users make better financial decisions.
Finder sought lower infrastructure costs, improved cost control capabilities, infrastructure autonomy for its squads and access to powerful new AI services. This presented several key challenges:
- Balancing cost reduction with website expansion: Lowering IT service costs was crucial, but not at the expense of expanding Finder’s website offerings.
- Enhancing application reliability on a budget: Improving application reliability and stability was essential, but needed to be achieved within a limited budget.
- Boosting productivity: Their goal was to increase team productivity without increasing operational expenses.
- Modernize legacy systems: They wanted to revamp legacy systems but had limited documentation and testing resources.
- Migrating to Google Cloud seamlessly: Migrating critical business applications to Google Cloud with minimal disruption required careful planning and execution.
- Modernizing outdated tools: They needed to upgrade tools like ElasticSearch that had reached end-of-life (EOL) cost-effectively.
Searce Solution
Searce delivered a high-performance, modular, and scalable Enterprise Grade Google Cloud Landing Zone, enabling a seamless migration for Finder.
Key Achievements:
- Optimized Application Stack: Finder’s application services were either transformed or lifted-and-shifted , followed by optimizations for better performance on Google Cloud.
- Enhanced Stability & Reliability: Business-critical applications were refactored for increased stability and reliability.
- Secure User Experience: “Members data services,” a critical platform for Finder, was rearchitected on Google Cloud. This custom solution replaced the AWS serverless framework and proved to be more reliable and robust.
- Improved Knowledge Transfer: Comprehensive documentation on Google Cloud setup and deployments eliminated person-dependency for future maintenance.
- Minimized Disruption: Migration test plans and “move groups” ensured minimal business disruption during the migration process.
- Modernized Infrastructure: Elasticsearch was upgraded to the latest version, ensuring compatibility with the migrated application services.
- Improved Modularisation: Finder’s core Terraform monolith was refactored into service-family collections of Terraform modules that allowed for teams to own and work on their own infrastructure autonomously.
Business Impact
- Reduced Costs and Increased Efficiency: Optimizing resource utilization and workload management on Google Cloud led to significant cost savings by 50%. This financial benefit allows Finder to reinvest in growth initiatives.
- Enhanced User Experience and SEO: Improved application reliability directly contributed to better Google Web Vitals scores. This translates to higher search engine rankings, attracting more organic traffic to Finder’s website.
- Future-Proofed Innovation: Migrating to Google Cloud empowers Finder to leverage cutting-edge Generative AI technology. This positions Finder as a forward-thinking leader within the industry. By embracing AI, Finder can drive innovation, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and ultimately, stay ahead of the competition.
By collaborating with Searce, Finder successfully made significant savings while simultaneously positioning itself for future growth. The migration to Google Cloud Platform also enhanced application security, stability and user experience. Importantly, Finder is now equipped to leverage cutting-edge Generative AI technology, solidifying its position as a forward-thinking leader in the fintech industry. This successful partnership demonstrates the power of strategic cloud migration in enabling businesses to thrive in a competitive landscape.
“When we were initially approached about migrating to save costs, my first thought was that there would be no way this could be delivered within six months and achieve its goals. T Twelve months. Maybe. However, Searce collaborated on a true win-win partnership and delivered what they promised. On top of that, while we had forecast a cost reduction of 12%, we beat this estimate by 50%. Our teams are now able to self-serve on their infrastructure, unleashing productivity through the removal of bottlenecks – and improving quality through faster feedback. And, what’s more, be able to access technology that is simply not available with other providers to build exciting product firsts in our industry.”
–Joe Waller – CTO, Finder
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