Introduction:
Nippon India Mutual Fund (NIMF) is a prominent mutual fund in India, with a presence across 264 locations as of September 30, 2024. Established to introduce a range of investment schemes, NIMF offers units to the public, aiming to support the capital market while providing investors with opportunities to invest in a diversified portfolio of securities.
Business Need:
The Nippon Mutual Fund was using desktop applications internally across multiple locations, managing both the maintenance and hardware. They sought a solution to transform these desktop applications into a SaaS model without altering the current architecture, enabling streaming over the internet and automating the start/stop processes based on the needs of the internal team.
Solution Approach:
Rapyder analyzed the customer’s existing application and infrastructure landscape to develop a detailed plan that achieved their goals while reducing costs by 50%.
Implementation:
The entire migration process was completed within 2 months with near-zero downtime, ensuring a seamless infrastructure transformation. We successfully moved three applications to Amazon AppStream 2.0 and handled all aspects of configuration, accessibility, security, and management:
- Applications were deployed across two sets of fleets.
- Configurations were tailored to meet the access requirements of different user groups.
- Auto start and shutdown were implemented to optimize costs.
Industry:
NBFC
Offering:
AWS AppStream 2.0
Third Party Solution:
SAML
AWS Services:
AppStream 2.0, SAML,Policies, roles, Directory services, fleet.
Reaping Rewards:
- The customer accessed their desktop application via a streaming protocol with no changes to the code or application architecture.
- By implementing auto start and stop for servers, the customer reduced costs by 50%, minimizing server runtime during idle periods.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rapyder handled Nippon India Mutual Fund's AWS operations for NBFC application access, where the main issue was desktop applications used across multiple locations with high maintenance and hardware overhead. The case is grounded in AWS AppStream 2.0, SAML, IAM policies, roles and the reported result: 50% infrastructure cost reduction.
The case is identifiable through AWS AppStream 2.0, SAML, IAM policies, roles. Those choices matter because they were used for desktop applications used across multiple locations with high maintenance and hardware overhead, not as a generic cloud checklist or broad managed-services capability list.
The result to cite is 50% infrastructure cost reduction and a two-month migration window. It reflects Nippon India Mutual Fund's workload, architecture, traffic, data, and implementation scope, so it belongs on the page as customer-specific evidence.
Teams should assess application compatibility, identity integration, user locations, performance expectations, data security, licensing, support workflows, and continuity requirements. The right model depends on both user experience and operational control.
