Red Hat & neoleap drive application modernisation in Saudi Arabia

By Gloria Methri

Red Hat, Inc. has collaborated with neoleap, a subsidiary of Saudi-based Alrajhi Bank, to create a new platform to bring innovative digital solutions to market faster and with enhanced security features.

Headquartered in Riyadh, neoleap is a Saudi FinTech company that provides a suite of digital solutions for business needs. From the digital wallet to accepting payments through point of sales, restaurant solutions, payment gateway, and card issuing, neoleap enables businesses of any scale to manage their finances anytime and anywhere.

Staying ahead of competition and disruptors in the payments industry demands continuous improvement in time to market, quality of service and compliance with regulation and security standards such as PCI-DSS. Facing a monolithic development process, infrastructure availability and team availability challenges, neoleap looked for a modern application platform that could enable it to step up its business agility.

neoleap took part in a Container Adoption Journey led by Red Hat Consulting on the planning, design and implementation of a new platform tailored to neoleap’s unique challenges and objectives. This included a gap analysis of neoleap’s existing DevOps processes followed by the build and ongoing monitoring and optimisation of new processes.

Applications are being modernised and migrated onto Red Hat OpenShift, the hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, with initial use cases including Payment Wallet and Unified Merchant Portal applications.

Combining the capabilities of Red Hat AMQ and OpenShift Platform Plus, which includes Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, Advanced Cluster Management and Red Hat Quay, with modern CI/CD processes, neoleap can streamline software development, with application deployment time reduced from days to minutes.

As neoleap looks to the future, it aims to enhance its technology operations through increased automation. It is considering adopting the Ansible Automation Platform for its enterprise-wide automation strategy. Additionally, neoleap plans to expand its DevSecOps practices across the organisation and develop a robust failover mechanism to strengthen its disaster recovery strategy, all with the support of Red Hat.