Case Study: Daiwa Capital Markets cuts provisioning from weeks to 10 minutes and streamlines audits with Puppet Enterprise

Daiwa streamlines auditing, upgrades environment management with Puppet Enterprise

Daiwa Capital Markets, a financial services firm managing a mixed Windows and Linux server estate, needed a way to automate environment builds and deliver a self‑service developer portal to speed deployments and simplify compliance audits. Manual server provisioning was slow, error‑prone and not well served by their existing Microsoft SCCM tools, creating delays and configuration drift that hindered both infrastructure and development teams.

Daiwa implemented Puppet Enterprise with vRealize Automation, integrating Git, Jenkins and Chocolatey to centralize cross‑platform configuration and expose infrastructure capabilities through a self‑service portal. The change cut environment provisioning from weeks to about 10 minutes, accelerated production deployments, reduced manual errors and drift, improved infrastructure‑development collaboration, and simplified routine audit procedures.

Daiwa Capital Markets

Andy Thomas

Head, European Infrastructure