How Searce Engineered Zilch’s 6-Week Rapid Deployment with Apigee for Multi-Cloud IT Success
About Zilch
Zilch is a direct-to-consumer ad-subsidised payment network, with the vision to eliminate the cost of consumer credit. For good. Leveraging its unique vertically integrated, first party data business model, Zilch brings unrivalled value to customers and retailers alike.
Zilch provides millions of customers the freedom to go anywhere in the world (online or oine) and when they pay, earn up to 5% cashback & rewards on debit payments (‘Pay Now’) or spread interest-free credit repayments over six weeks (‘Pay in 4 over 6 weeks’) and in the process helps build their credit profiles with the major credit agencies while keeping them protected. In just over 3 years, Zilch has amassed more than 3.6 million registered customers.
The Challenge
- Cloud Integration: Although Zilch predominantly utilized AWS, they recognized the advantages of multi-cloud integration, especially the resilience and access to distinct tools specific to dierent cloud partners.
- API Management: Zilch had a keen interest in Apigee, a Google product designed to unveil APIs and endpoints to chosen external associates. This tool was crucial for Zilch’s growth strategy and their aim to integrate with third-party aggregators, like comparison websites. Its ready-to-use features can streamline processes, allowing their engineers to dedicate their expertise to tackling other challenges and innovations.
- Rapid Deployment: With ambitious growth plans, Zilch needed a swift and ecient integration of new technologies. This was particularly challenging given their in-house engineers’ expertise primarily lay in other cloud platforms and technologies.
- Security and Reliability: As a payment platform and credit provider, Zilch could not compromise on the security and reliability of their services, making the selection and integration of new technologies a sensitive task.
- Scalability for Growth: Zilch’s rapid user base expansion, especially in the UK, necessitated scalable solutions that could handle increasing loads and oer new features without service interruptions.
The Solution
- Rapid Google Cloud and Apigee Integration: Searce eciently set up Zilch’s Google Cloud landing zone and their initial Apigee instance. In just six weeks, Zilch transitioned from having no infrastructure on Google Cloud or Apigee to a fully-integrated platform across both their test and production environments.
- Expert Collaboration: Our team of solvers worked closely with Zilch’s in-house engineers, ensuring a smooth and informed integration process, leveraging both teams’ expertise.
- Multi-Cloud Resilience: By facilitating the integration of Google Cloud alongside AWS, we provided Zilch with the resilience of a multi-cloud environment, safeguarding against potential service interruptions.
- API Management with Apigee: With help from our team of experts, Zilch utilized Apigee’s robust features, ensuring third-party interactions with their systems were swift, secure, and dependable. This opened new avenues for customer acquisition and third-party integrations.
- Future-Ready Discussions: Recognizing the potential of big data, ML, and AI, Searce and Zilch have ongoing discussions about harnessing these capabilities on Google Cloud to further drive business growth and innovation.
Testimonial
Robert Nelson
Head of Engineering
at Zilch
“There’s no way that our engineers would have been as fast to deliver our Google Cloud instance in Apigee without Searce’s help.
They (Searce) could not only call on their own internal knowledge for helping us to solve our problems and get ourselves online with Google Cloud, but they could also lean on their existing relationships with Google to accelerate that process as well.”
Business Impact
Our collaboration with Zilch has been transformative. Within a short span, Zilch benefitted on multiple fronts –
- A multi-cloud resilience with Google Cloud and AWS ensures uninterrupted services.
- 6-week rapid execution led to significant time and cost savings for Zilch.
- Opened new avenues for customer acquisition, and third-party integrations.
As Zilch continues its upward trajectory, the foundation laid by Searce ensures they are well-equipped to handle future challenges.
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