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Building a Roadmap to Modernisation

A Story of Owning Change

TEKsystems Global Services guides a research institute on their application modernisation journey with AWS.

72%

Predicted storage cost savings

$850K+

Total predicted infrastructure cost savings over 3 years

76%

Predicted database cost savings

Mastering Momentum in Health and Education

Our client, a research institute, set out to modernise their existing application by taking advantage of more cloud native services on AWS. Modernising the organisation’s app would help reduce costs, address storage issues and move towards a microservices architecture that would serve as a foundation for automation and future growth.

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The Challenge: Modernising and Optimising Existing App

A Research Institute’s Digital Transformation

While our client had already performed a lift and shift migration, app modernisation would improve overall end-user experience, increase efficiency and productivity, and decrease maintenance costs. The research organisation wanted to evolve from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture, organising the various complex tasks within their application into individual services. While this transition would take time, a comprehensive plan would ensure the modernisation journey started and proceeded properly. The research institute needed a highly experienced AWS partner to develop a roadmap for implementation and help them see this process through. Enter TEKsystems Global Services (TGS).

Our Solution: Creating a Game Plan for Continued App Modernisation Efforts

Highlighting Short-, Mid- and Long-Term Goals in Discovery

First, our team reviewed the current architecture and application to identify existing challenges and areas of opportunity. This assessment helped us develop recommendations, including essential foundational steps such as establishing containerisation and microservices, database migration and the adoption of Agile methodologies and cross-functional teams. Our goal? Set the stage for long-term goals, such as adopting continuous deployment (CD) to ensure the rapid delivery of improvements and features, as well as the eventual full migration to AWS S3 cloud storage. In the short term, we focused on a database migration strategy that would serve as a firm foundation for automation and a microservices architecture and help address performance and scalability issues. We used CAST Highlight and Imaging tools for a comprehensive discovery of the organisation’s applications and harnessed these insights to accelerate our development of an application modernisation roadmap.

Powerful Partnership: Putting AWS Expertise to Work

Migration and Application Modernisation Strategy

Our client required the expertise of a partner with extensive knowledge of AWS best practices. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, TGS has the capability to guide customers through any and every stage of their modernisation journey. Leveraging our deep expertise and proven successes with application innovation, we recommended an AWS-centric architecture that would enable the institute to realise the full benefits of microservices, along with automation practices, while also developing a strategy for an eventual full migration to AWS S3.

Real-World Results

By following this plan, our client can improve navigation and overall end-user experience on their application, as well as reduce support staff workloads through automation. Thanks to seamless integration with the app ecosystem, users will be able to automate records validation, enjoy near-real time certificate generation and boost performance with customided assessment reporting. Because of our partnership on this project, the organidation can continue their work of applying cutting-edge research to develop learning solutions while maximiding technology ROI.

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