Modern Infrastructure and Improved CI/CD
Modern Infrastructure and Improved CI/CD
OVERVIEW
- Wolters Kluwer is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services in health, tax & accounting, ESG, finance, compliance, and legal. It is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands (Global) and Philadelphia, United States (corporate) and serves customers in over 180 countries.
- This project was undertaken for the flagship product of the healthcare division of the $5B global information publishing house.
- The application was initially built in the 90s with C/C++ language, deployed on Solaris servers.
- It utilized languages like Java, PERL and a wrapper of .NET to meet their business requirements.
- Due to the growing business, they were unable to take advantage of business expansion opportunities in APAC with current platform.
- Managing several datacenters was reducing their focus on business. The costly on-premises datacenters and inability to nimbly improve offering hampered business growth.
- The system experts were dwindling yet this flagship product was still responsible for most of their revenue.
SOLUTION PROVIDED BY PEOPLE TECH GROUP
- People Tech conducted an analysis to understand the application architecture.
- We successfully migrated a key portion of the application to Linux as a POC proving viability of approach.
- Created a Linux environment to recompile the application and fix the issues and then migrate to cloud.
- Created custom tools to migrate the code and data to Linux environment.
- Established state of the art multi-region, hot swap cloud architecture and migrated to this new architecture.
BENEFITS
- Successfully ported Ovid to Linux in dual AWS datacenters in Northern VA and Dublin.
- Migrated 17 TB of active research data and data publishing tools to the cloud.
- Implemented full dev ops for over 70 applications along with over 1000 automated test cases.
- Successfully compiled 70+ components on RHEL 7.3 Linux.
- 75% improvement in login, search and pdf download time.
- Reduced infrastructure and maintenance cost by $1.5M per annum.
