Transforming GOSI’s Core Integration Platform to Support Services at National-Scale

We partnered with the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) – previously Public Pension Authority (PPA) – to help them to achieve their goals and milestones towards digital transformation. We met with Tariq Alburaykan, the Integration Services Unit Manager at GOSI, to gain a more in-depth view from his perspective into the project, GOSI’s journey, and its outcomes.

Alburaykan began by giving a brief history regarding GOSI’s Digital Transformation Initiative. GOSI had a vision for an aggressive and innovative digital transformation strategy which was not possible to implement with their existing legacy system. GOSI’s middleware and API platform at the time were too complex to maintain, had performance and stability issues, and could not cater for GOSI’s current and future APIs and integration requirements.

As such, GOSI’s aggressive digital transformation roadmap was blocked due to the legacy system currently in place from which arose the need to modernize.

It was through an assessment of the situation and a deep understanding of GOSI’s innovative digital strategy that it became clear to Sumerge that GOSI was looking for a solution unlike any other available on the market.

This is when Sumerge proposed a modern platform based on an API first strategy, running containers based on microservices architecture using the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and relying on DevOps practices.

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Our team, coupled up with our strategic partner, Sumerge, managed to work as a single harmonious team to seamlessly achieve GOSI’s business needs.

Tarek Alburaykan - Integration Services Unit Manager at GOSI

The result was a complete success where GOSI was able to provide pensioners with top notch services while having almost no downtime.

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10x

Increase in transactions per second

192M

Transactions per month

60+

External entities integrated

265

Integration services

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It was through a lot of hard work, dedication and technical innovation that we were able to launch more than 160 services to our pensioners, managed the core pension migration and launched tens of G2G/G2B services!

Tarek Alburaykan - Integration Services Unit Manager at GOSI

• Microservices Architecture
• IBM Cloud Pak

The General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) is a governmental entity that is independent financially and administratively and provides social protection and insurance coverage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It covers the Saudi civil and military employees, the private sector workers and workers employed on item of wages in public sector. It also implements the social insurance law, its branches, its executive regulations, and the civil and military pension laws in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.