Peter Disselkoen, Architect and co-founder of PENGINE: 

Our collaboration with Guida led to a highly available, hyperscalable and secure cloud-native infrastructure for GiroPro, our cutting-edge Wealth Care SaaS platform. Leveraging Kubernetes and cloud-native technology, GiroPro surpasses traditional fund and participant administration systems, providing competitive advantages for its users. With multi-legislation and multi-currency options, GiroPro empowers our clients to overcome international barriers.

The Customer

PENGINE GiroPro is a cloud-native SaaS platform for fund and participant administration. PENGINE’s highly experienced software developers, known as The Pengineers, have a long track record in IT for banking and insurance. Their goal was to overcome the limitations of legacy systems and deliver innovative solutions to their clients.

PENGINE’s mission is ‘to create epic software for better wealth care’.

Created by a dedicated team of talented Pengineers. Designed as an agile architecture of microservices providing updates and upgrades without interruption. Built on the robust principles of double-entry accounting and journal entries that ensures data quality.

The Challenge

PENGINE sought to disrupt the traditional international fund and participant administration software market by leveraging modern cloud-native technologies and offering a hyperscalable SaaS product called GiroPro. Their goal was to enable their clients to fully benefit from the potential of cloud-native software.

The Four Essential Pillars of GiroPro are:

  • Cloud-Native Computing

  • Microservices Architecture

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

  • Maximum Parameterization

The Solution

Guida provides PENGINE with Guida Managed Kubernetes (GMK) for Azure AKS, a fully managed Kubernetes environment that allows PENGINE to focus on software development, while Guida handles the technical aspects, ensuring reliability and security.

Guida Managed Kubernetes provides an open-source stack of tools for load-balancing, monitoring, log management, backups, and security policies.

In addition, Guida’s engineers work hand in hand with the Pengineers to ensure seamless integration and support.

The Impact

Through the partnership with Guida and the implementation of GMK, PENGINE achieved faster onboarding of new clients, reduced costs, and improved platform security and reliability. This allowed PENGINE to offer a more competitive and cost-effective solution to their customers while gaining better control and insight into platform performance.

Overall, this collaboration helped PENGINE create a superior wealth care platform for their customers.