Deloitte and Southern Cross at Red Hat Summit. Deloitte Digital and client Southern Cross Health Society revealed key learnings of the latter’s digital transformation journey at the Red Hat Summit in Sydney yesterday. Southern Cross Health Society is New Zealand’s largest private healthcare organisation that offers a range of insurance products. The not-for-profit boasts over one million customers in New Zealand. Samuel Koo, head of platforms, provided insights of Southern Cross’ digital transformation journey. Koo spoke of the imperative the company faced to modernise its IT infrastructure. “We have lots of individual applications that are suited for particular products or services." "But over the last few years, we’re seeing that these individual products need to be connected, integrated." "And that means the complexity is not actually multiplied, it becomes an exponential thing,” Koo said. “Any new initiative can take years to implement. So this is when we started to realise that actually we need to pivot, and we need to start transforming into the modern architecture," he added. Deloitte Digital specialist director of cloud and engineering Mao Cai explained how the company was engaged in 2017 to help Southern Cross on their digital transformation journey. “After a series of […]