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This week in Copenhagen, Silk had the opportunity to join SimCorp Global Summit — an event that brings together some of the most forward-thinking leaders in investment management technology.
As a proud partner of SimCorp, we came to the summit with a clear goal: connect with the teams building and scaling the next generation of financial platforms, share what we’ve accomplished together with SimCorp, and explore how those same results can apply beyond a single application or use case.
What we found confirmed something we see across the market every day: financial institutions are all-in on the cloud — but they’re running into a performance ceiling.
The Reality of SaaS in Financial Services
Across conversations with platform engineering, infrastructure, and data teams, one theme came up repeatedly:
Moving to SaaS is no longer optional — but making it work at scale is still a challenge.
Financial systems demand:
- Extreme performance consistency
- Low latency under heavy concurrency
- Real-time access to large volumes of data
And yet, cloud infrastructure alone often struggles to meet these requirements consistently.
The result? Teams are forced into tradeoffs:
- Overprovisioning infrastructure just to maintain stability
- Duplicating production data across environments
- Slowing down analytics and development workflows
- Carefully pacing customer onboarding to avoid performance degradation
In short, the cloud promises scale — but performance constraints get in the way.
Removing the Performance Ceiling
At Silk, we focus on solving this exact problem.
We’re not another database or infrastructure layer — we accelerate the cloud for mission-critical financial systems, removing the performance constraints that limit SaaS growth.
Our approach enables:
- Predictable performance at scale with consistent, sub-millisecond latency
- Efficient scaling without costly overprovisioning
- Direct access to production data, eliminating duplication
- Faster analytics and AI readiness with real-time data access
- Confident customer onboarding without risking performance
The outcome is simple but powerful: financial platforms can scale their SaaS offerings without compromising performance, cost, or reliability.
The SimCorp Story: From Constraint to Scale
One of the most valuable parts of the event was sharing the story of our work with SimCorp — and hearing how strongly it resonated.
SimCorp, a global leader in investment management solutions serving 40% of the world’s top financial institutions, faced a familiar challenge as they transitioned to SaaS on Azure: how to maintain consistent, high performance in the cloud.
Like many organizations, they chose a lift-and-shift approach to accelerate their move — but quickly encountered the limitations of cloud-native performance for their workloads.
With Silk, they were able to break through that ceiling:
- Up to 700% performance improvement for Oracle workloads
- 20% faster performance in the cloud than their previous on-premises environment
- Successful delivery of their SaaS offering at scale
As Ulrik Elstrup Hansen, SVP and Chief Technology Officer, Platform at SimCorp, put it:
“With Silk, we are able to get closer to the promise of the cloud.”
That message resonated across the summit: the goal isn’t just to move to the cloud — it’s to actually realize its promise.
Beyond SimCorp: A Broader Opportunity
While our work with SimCorp is a powerful example, the conversations in Copenhagen made it clear that this challenge — and opportunity — extends far beyond a single platform.
Every financial system that depends on:
- High-performance databases
- Real-time analytics
- Scalable SaaS delivery
…faces similar constraints in the cloud.
And every one of those platforms stands to benefit from removing the performance ceiling.
Looking Ahead
The SimCorp Global Summit reinforced a critical shift in the market:
The next phase of cloud adoption in financial services isn’t about migration — it’s about optimization and scale.
Organizations have made the move. Now they need to:
- Deliver consistent performance under real workloads
- Scale customers efficiently
- Unlock real-time data access for analytics and AI
That’s where Silk comes in.
If we didn’t get a chance to connect in Copenhagen — or if you’re exploring how to scale your platform beyond its current limits — we’d love to continue the conversation.
Because the cloud should accelerate your growth — not hold it back.
