The Customer
A nonprofit health services company based in Minnesota with membership nationwide.
The Project
Building an Enterprise Platform to Optimize Processes
Overview
This customer looked to Improving when they initiated the creation of an enterprise platform for all of their affiliates. By migrating their data to AWS, this organization’s parent company now has a pathway to create highly aligned, loosely coupled organizations within their enterprise.
The Challenge
This company needed to move off its legacy system and build a cloud platform to reduce time to market for internal products, scale operations quickly, and reduce long-term total cost of ownership. Their goal was to decommission large portions of their on-premise infrastructure and migrate their data to the cloud. They needed a partner, like Improving, with knowledge of modern cloud strategies and practices, and a team that could help them navigate the cultural change required to adopt a DevOps mindset.
The Solution
Improving came in during the ideation phase of the project and reinforced some of the organization’s ideas on how to approach a cloud platform. By leveraging AWS, Improving was able to use native and third-party tools to simplify the automation and elasticity of the organization’s infrastructure while adhering to usability, cost, and security standards. Improving helped them define the cloud environment and evolve the scope while implementing the features that added the most value.
Improving introduced the organization to Gitlab, Terraform, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code, and trained the team on these technologies. The client had a willingness to change and a good structure for cross-department collaboration so the process to adopt a DevOps mindset worked well for them.
The Business Benefits
Improving and our client’s staff worked as a team to achieve a high AWS Well-Architected Review rating. The organization is HIPAA Compliant, security is robust, and now they’re ready to roll it out to all of their other affiliates. Business processes are now optimized and lead times for rolling out new internal products are reduced. By automating processes they’re eliminating the need for extensive decisions and approval chains, and greatly reducing manual tasks. Management staff can focus more on business and less on the logistics and complications found with legacy systems.
Why Improving?
As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Improving made recommendations based on experience—knowing the pros and cons of the technologies that work best in the healthcare environment. Improving excelled at delivering clean code, having a management mindset, delivering architecture designs and documentation, and training this organization’s employees.
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