AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Learn about a multi-regional first-line of support solution Chaos Gears put together using a serverless application running AWS Lambda under the baton of AWS Step Functions to relieve a customer’s engineers from some of their operational burdens. The approach described in this post can be adapted to serve other needs or cover different cases, as AWS Step Functions’ visual workflows allow for a quick translation of business requirements to technical ones.

When implemented in legacy on-premises systems, business rules tend to be rigid in nature and impact business agility. By using a combination of AWS managed services, Capgemini can build a cloud-based rules engine that can be scaled to increasing data volume, easily configured, and quickly accessed. This enables organizations to be completely agile in developing new business rules, or updating/retiring business rules, without relying on IT.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN Blog posts we shared in 2021. Our goal with this blog has always been to share timely and relevant news, technical solutions, partner stories, and more from Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) specifically. Thank you for reading the APN Blog, and Happy New Year to all our AWS Partners and customers!

Customer experience is at its best when a customer perceives the experience offered is unique and aligns to their preferences. The need to engage, at a very personal level, becomes key. Learn how Capgemini’s data and analytics practice implements customer intelligence platforms on AWS to help companies build a unified data hub. This enables customer data to be converted into insights that can be used for reporting and building AI/ML predictive analytics capabilities.

Kubernetes is hardware-agnostic and can work across a wide range of infrastructure platforms, and Kubeflow—the self-described machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes—provides a Kubernetes-native platform for developing and deploying ML systems. Learn how D2iQ Kaptain on AWS directly addresses the challenges of moving ML workloads into production, the steep learning curve for Kubernetes, and the particular difficulties Kubeflow can introduce.

There is a huge opportunity to move mainframe applications to the cloud, allowing organizations to leverage benefits like cost reduction, improved agility, and the ability to unlock data to drive insights. Learn how the Atos SyntBots solution accelerates the testing of mainframe migration projects. We’ll also explore how establishing data and functional equivalence between the mainframe and migrated systems is made comprehensive and accelerated using this approach.

In early August, millions of people took part in the 2021 Census across Australia, providing a comprehensive picture of the country’s economic, social, and cultural makeup. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ran the 2021 Census on AWS using an operational insights platform built in partnership with AWS Professional Services, Shine Solutions, ARQ Group, and the ABS. Learn how this tool provided near real-time insights into a very complex logistical activity.

Group insurance companies need to provide higher service levels to their stakeholders—employers, employees, brokers, other ecosystem partners, and their own insurance personnel—to remain competitive. Using Vitech’s V3locity Application Service allows group insurance companies to exceed the necessary service levels (short-term and long-term) while offloading the management of the associated application and infrastructure services to Vitech, through its collaboration with AWS.

To help businesses get the most out of their customer data, CRM tools are used widely to manage data throughout the customer journey, and the exchange of data between two CRMs should be seamless and glitch-free. To better optimize and automate CRM integration with the ACE Pipeline Manager, learn how various AWS services support Labra OppSync from Ibexlabs and help AWS Partners manage their customer opportunities.

Most business modernization initiatives require integration of several IoT devices and solutions. These integrations require businesses to select, validate, adopt, and manage various IoT solutions, which can be challenging. Lenovo Solutions Management Platform hosted on AWS provides a marketplace experience for enterprise customers to procure validated solutions. It empowers solution providers to commercialize and scale their products across the globe.