case study

Skymantle helped Fundata unlock several opportunities within their business and optimize costs by accelerating a move to a serverless API model using Amazon Web Services.

planning for growth and success

Fundata is Canada’s leading distributor of investment fund data to global investment firms, media and businesses. They have a strong commitment to responsible investment in reliability, security and operational excellence. In order to continue building on its leadership position, Fundata wanted to build a hybrid cloud solution that would enhance its data collection processes to support future growth

  • Data Resiliency & Availability - As the volume of requests for data increase, their clients continuously demand that the responsiveness and uptime increase as well. A hybrid cloud would make it possible for them to support their clients 24/7/365 with unprecedented performance and uptime.

  • Operational Scalability - As Fundata continues to grow, they’ll need their infrastructure to grow with it. Their on-premise setup will become increasingly expensive and difficult to maintain.

  • Storage Costs - Fundata continues to see their costs of storage rise. It’s not just servers, but personnel costs for maintenance and monitoring are also increasing

“Skymantle worked through the early stages of a solution with us to ensure we are picking the right path”

Don McKye, CTO, Fundata

building a scalable solution for growth on AWS

$120K-$150K

Additional revenue from new opportunities and savings from freezing on-premise expenditures

99.99% Uptime

Highly-resilient and highly-available architecture made possible by AWS

350 Man-Hours

Reinvested per year into growth and strategic initiatives instead of on-premise maintenance

  • Using tools like Cloudformation to automate the deployment of the hybrid cloud, we were able to deploy and maintain the solution in a fraction of the time it would take for a full on-premise solution.

  • We customized an architecture using AWS Virtual Private Cloud, designed subnets for secure data transfers, and implemented security group policies to ensure that valuable data remained highly secure.

  • Fundata’s clients demanded access to their services 24/7/365, so we designed a setup using multiple availability zones and application load balancers to ensure they delivered on their promise.

  • Scaling up to meet customer demands was just the start. Using the hybrid cloud solution, Fundata was able to count on great performance to seek out and close new opportunities.

  • Using tools like Cost Explorer, Fundata can track how every dollar is spent in AWS. Consolidated & detailed billing made it easy to understand and justify their hybrid cloud investment.

  • Never having to deal with on-premise hardware means never having to deal with the high costs of maintaining hardware, and planning capital purchases & IT resourcing for the future.