Azure - Environmental Industry

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Azure - Environmental Industry

Posted by Encora on May 24, 2023 12:28:08 PM

Encora’s approach drove significant improvements across the client’s eCommerce KPI dashboard.

Industry Context

The company wanted to better understand the data and exit out of BU’s which are least profitable. The legacy DWH system is an amalgamation of multitude of COTS products and the client had little control over the COTS related data leading to rudimentary business intelligence, analytics
The level of customizations expected by the clients are on the raise and this necessitated the need to have the tools in place which will facilitate the company to develop, test and deliver software changes at speed with quality.

Client Challenge

Migrate and manage data from multiple 3rd party system was a challenge.
Scattered data of the customer and Vendors across different systems.
Excel, Smartsheet heavy usage – needs lot of manual effort managing these Smartsheets.
Tracking the growth and profit of the company was inconsistence with data being recorded in multiple systems.
Onboarding a new customer or a vendor was a tedious process causing delays to the onboarding process at times resulting in loss of business.
The on-prem infrastructure was provisioned for the peak load resulting in high cost
Absence of Non-Prod ecosystem (Develop, QA, UAT & Regression) which mirrors the Production ecosystem resulting in larger issue resolution time

Approach

Envision: Product Management, understand client’s cloud migration needs and prepare a detailed cloud migration roadmap. Responsibilities include Release planning, product backlog management & UAT support
Enable: Cloud Services, migrating on-premise facility source ecosystem to Azure. Platform Modernization, reengineering the code to utilize Azure PaaS offerings like Azure Keyvault, Azure Service Bus, etc.
Engineer: Product Engineering & Development, prepare target cloud blueprint, identify components that are to be reengineered for cloud, and perform the required PoC. Reengineer the code to utilize Cloud PaaS offerings DevOps, built DevOps toolchain, scripted the infrastructure, and bridged the gap between Nonprod & Prod ecosystem ensuring seamless delivery to all Non-Prod & Prod servers. Quality Assurance, created the smoke, regression automation test suites and integrated them with the DevOps pipeline
Engage: Digital Experience, reengineering existing product suite to rich UI using Bootstrap, Angular

Why Azure?

The company legacy product was built on .Net stack and client is familiar with the PaaS offerings with Azure
Encora is instrumental in rebuilding and replacing the current ecosystem that is an amalgamation of various COTS (commercial offthe-shelf) based sub systems to perform day to day activities on waste recycle management.

AWS Solution

Utilized Azure DevOps pipeline, Infrastructure as Code to maintain a standard infrastructure across environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Regression & Production)
Use of Azure Key Vault to manage application secrets, configs
Use of Azure Active Directory to enable two-factor authentication
Utilized Azure Kubernetes Services to dynamically scale the compute to handle preventive maintenance workloads, seasonal spikes.
Real-time monitoring of the product ecosystem using Azure Application Insights, Azure Monitor

Primary Azure Services: Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes services, Azure API Manager, Azure Key Vault, Azure Blob Storage, Send Grid, Azure SQL Database, Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights

Results

Reduced the infrastructure cost by 20% by enabling dynamic scaling
Azure Pipelines helped in reducing the overall time for the deployment process by 20%
DevSecOps implemented using Azure CI/CD helped us to address both static, and dynamic security needs
Azure Service Bus helped in seamless message exchange and the implementation of eventual data consistency
Azure Monitor, Azure App insights helped us to track, and handle the unhandled exceptions and in ensuring ultra-high availability

Reduced infrastructure cost

Reduced deployment time

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