Suncorp and Tambla Announced as Winners for the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2022 for Australia and New Zealand Region

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Suncorp Group and Tambla Workforce Solutions as the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2022 for the Australia and New Zealand region. The two winners demonstrate how open source tools and culture have the power to accelerate business processes, enhance productivity, stimulate innovation and address future challenges. They showcased the positive impact of their Red Hat deployments in supporting their business vision, workplace culture, industry and communities.

According to Red Hat’s State of Enterprise Open Source 2022 report, 95 percent of Asia Pacific enterprises say that open source is important to their organization’s overall enterprise infrastructure software strategy, helping them stay nimble and respond to changing market demands in the long run.

In line with this year’s theme of “Explore what’s next,” the APAC Innovation Awards celebrate Red Hat customers for their ability to adapt to rapidly changing business environments by transforming their business models with open source. The awards comprise five categories including Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-native Development, Automation and Resilience. 26 organizations across the Asia Pacific region have been recognized for this year for their creative use of Red Hat solutions in staying ahead of industry disruptions and changing customer needs.

Category: Digital Transformation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Winner: Suncorp Group

Suncorp is one of Australia's largest financial services companies offering a diverse portfolio of insurance and banking products and services through some of Australia and New Zealand's most recognized financial brands. Through the adoption of Red Hat open source technologies, Suncorp is able to respond to the changing business needs faster.

Suncorp prioritized the delivery of digital-first and personalized experiences for its customers as part of its strategic effort to modernize their enterprise technologies and drive further business growth. To create these new customer experiences, Suncorp needed a reliable multi-cloud development platform that could enable their developers to build new applications quickly and sustainably at a low cost. For doing this, Suncorp implemented Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) and Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) to build an integrated development platform that allowed developers to build secure and scalable applications quickly while complying to financial security standards.

Category: Digital Transformation and Automation

Winner: Tambla Workforce Solutions

Tambla provides intelligent workforce solutions to organizations with large “shift-based” essential workforces. They work with enterprise companies and government organizations across a range of sectors – to provide industry leading, intelligent HR technology solutions that help to optimize the management and payment of their essential workers. One of Tambla’s key solutions is the processing of payroll for hundreds of thousands of health workers each pay period.

Tambla inherited an aging platform through a business acquisition that was slow and in need of improvement. To deliver performance optimization across these data processing-intensive payroll services, Tambla turned to Advent One, a Red Hat Premier Partner, who designed and quickly deployed a solution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite. As a result, Tambla saved months of migration effort and delivered huge efficiency gains. Processes that previously took six hours now take an hour or less to complete and the new solution delivered improved security functionality and availability of these critical services customers rely on to run their businesses.

Supporting Quotes
Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat
“As the speed of change in Asia Pacific’s business landscape continues to accelerate, we celebrate the achievements of our customers who have demonstrated how open source can help them stay agile and responsive to market and customer trends. Our winners have showcased exceptional agility and innovation when it comes to using technologies like hybrid cloud, data analytics and edge computing for their business and customers. I hope that they will serve as an inspiration for more organizations in Asia Pacific to unlock the potential of open source.”

Charles Pizzato, executive general manager, Infrastructure, Technology and Transformation, Suncorp Group
“At Suncorp, we have been progressively modernizing our technology environment, leveraging cloud services, to take advantage of the agility, scale and pace of delivery it offers. Digital-first has been a key priority for Suncorp’s technology strategy as we deliver more personalized experiences to meet the needs of digitally savvy customers. Red Hat OpenShift enables Suncorp’s developers the ability to deliver software more rapidly, in a secure and standardized environment, that is highly portable giving us flexibility in the future.”

Richard Mitton, chief information security officer, Tambla
“A lot of our customers, including government organizations, operate in highly controlled work environments where processing the payroll on time is critical to the business and cannot be compromised. Migrating our systems to a modern enterprise platform with automation and management from Red Hat has revolutionized how we work and allowed us to focus on the delivery of critical services our customers rely on to run their businesses. With Red Hat’s technology and Advent One’s support, we now have access to far more storage and compute resources that deliver higher performance at a fraction of the cost of the previous systems.”