Case Studies

Representative examples of enterprise delivery—demonstrating our approach, technical depth, and ability to solve complex business-critical challenges.

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HealthcareCloud MigrationData Platform

Multi-Facility Health System: Cloud Migration & Clinical Data Platform

Client Context

A regional health system operating 12 hospitals and 75+ outpatient facilities across three states. The organization maintained a legacy on-premises data center hosting multiple clinical applications, analytics systems, and patient data repositories.

Aging infrastructure, increasing maintenance costs, limited disaster recovery capabilities, and the need for real-time clinical analytics drove the decision to pursue cloud migration.

Business Challenge

  • Legacy infrastructure nearing end-of-life with escalating maintenance costs and limited scalability
  • Fragmented clinical data across multiple systems preventing unified patient views and analytics
  • HIPAA compliance requirements necessitating rigorous security controls, encryption, and audit trails
  • Zero tolerance for downtime during migration—clinical operations could not be interrupted
  • Limited cloud expertise within internal IT requiring knowledge transfer and training

Our Approach

Phase 1: Assessment & Strategy (8 weeks)

  • Comprehensive application portfolio assessment and dependency mapping
  • Cloud platform selection (AWS chosen based on HIPAA compliance, regional presence, and healthcare reference architecture)
  • Migration wave planning prioritizing low-risk applications first
  • HIPAA compliance architecture design with security controls matrix
  • Cost modeling and TCO analysis

Phase 2: Foundation & Pilot (12 weeks)

  • AWS landing zone implementation with multi-account structure
  • Network architecture (VPC design, Direct Connect, VPN failover)
  • Identity and access management (IAM, SSO integration with Active Directory)
  • Security baseline (encryption, logging, monitoring, GuardDuty, Security Hub)
  • Pilot migration of non-critical application to validate process

Phase 3: Core Application Migration (24 weeks)

  • Phased migration of 37 applications across six migration waves
  • Rehost strategy for legacy applications (lift-and-shift to EC2)
  • Replatform strategy for modernization candidates (containerization, managed services)
  • Data migration with validation and reconciliation processes
  • Cutover planning with rollback procedures and business continuity

Phase 4: Clinical Data Platform (16 weeks)

  • HL7 and FHIR integration layer connecting EHR, lab systems, imaging, and ancillary systems
  • Real-time data pipeline ingesting clinical events (Kinesis, Lambda, S3)
  • Data lake architecture for longitudinal patient records
  • Analytics platform (Redshift, QuickSight) for clinical intelligence and population health
  • API layer for third-party application integration

Technical Solution

Architecture Components

  • • AWS multi-account structure (12 accounts)
  • • Direct Connect (2x 10Gbps) + VPN failover
  • • EC2 instances (mix of on-demand and reserved)
  • • RDS for relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
  • • S3 for object storage and data lake
  • • Kinesis for real-time data streaming
  • • Lambda for serverless data processing
  • • Redshift for analytics data warehouse
  • • ECS for containerized applications
  • • CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty for monitoring

Security & Compliance

  • • HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS
  • • Encryption at rest (EBS, S3, RDS with KMS)
  • • Encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+)
  • • Network segmentation and security groups
  • • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforced
  • • Centralized logging and audit trails
  • • Automated compliance scanning (AWS Config, Security Hub)
  • • Backup and disaster recovery (cross-region replication)
  • • Incident response procedures and runbooks

Outcomes

37
Applications migrated with zero unplanned downtime
42%
Infrastructure cost reduction in first year
15M+
Clinical events processed daily via data platform
  • Zero security incidents or HIPAA violations during migration and first 18 months of operation
  • Unified clinical data platform enabling real-time analytics, population health insights, and regulatory reporting
  • Improved disaster recovery posture with RPO < 15 minutes, RTO < 4 hours
  • Enhanced scalability supporting 23% patient volume growth without infrastructure expansion
  • Knowledge transfer completed with internal IT team managing day-to-day operations

Technologies Used

AWSEC2RDSS3KinesisLambdaRedshiftECSTerraformPythonHL7FHIR
Financial ServicesCore ModernizationMicroservices

Regional Bank: Core Banking System Modernization

Client Context

A regional bank with $8B in assets, serving commercial and retail customers across 150 branches. The institution operated a 20-year-old core banking system built on a monolithic architecture, limiting product innovation and digital channel capabilities.

Increasing competition from digital-first banks and fintech companies, coupled with regulatory pressure to improve risk management and reporting, necessitated core system modernization.

Business Challenge

  • Monolithic legacy system preventing rapid product launches and feature updates
  • Limited API capabilities hindering digital channel development and third-party integration
  • Batch-oriented processing unable to support real-time transaction requirements
  • Regulatory compliance gaps in risk reporting, AML, and fraud detection
  • Technical debt and vendor lock-in increasing operational risk and maintenance costs
  • Impossible to replace core system atomically—required phased strangler pattern approach

Our Approach

Phase 1: Strategy & Architecture (10 weeks)

  • Current-state assessment and capability mapping
  • Target architecture design (microservices, event-driven, API-first)
  • Strangler fig pattern strategy for incremental migration
  • Domain-driven design (DDD) to identify bounded contexts
  • Technology stack selection and proof-of-concept
  • Risk assessment and mitigation planning

Phase 2: Platform Foundation (16 weeks)

  • Kubernetes platform deployment (Azure AKS with multi-zone HA)
  • Service mesh implementation (Istio for traffic management, observability)
  • API gateway and developer portal
  • Event streaming backbone (Kafka for event-driven architecture)
  • Observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK)
  • CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, ArgoCD for GitOps)
  • Security baseline (network policies, RBAC, secrets management)

Phase 3: First Bounded Context (12 weeks)

  • Account Management domain extracted from monolith
  • Microservices development (Java / Spring Boot)
  • Event sourcing and CQRS patterns for audit and consistency
  • Change data capture (CDC) from legacy system using Debezium
  • Dual-write mitigation and eventual consistency handling
  • Comprehensive testing (unit, integration, contract, E2E)
  • Production deployment with canary release

Phase 4: Additional Domains (36 weeks, iterative)

  • Payments & Transfers domain (real-time transaction processing)
  • Lending & Credit domain (loan origination and servicing)
  • Customer Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Fraud Detection & AML (real-time transaction monitoring)
  • Regulatory Reporting (automated compliance data aggregation)
  • Iterative deployment with gradual traffic migration

Technical Solution

Architecture Patterns

  • • Strangler fig pattern for incremental migration
  • • Domain-driven design (DDD) bounded contexts
  • • Event sourcing and CQRS for auditability
  • • API-first design with OpenAPI specifications
  • • Event-driven architecture (Kafka event backbone)
  • • Saga pattern for distributed transactions
  • • Circuit breaker and retry patterns for resilience
  • • Change data capture (CDC) for legacy integration

Technology Stack

  • • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • • Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
  • • Apache Kafka for event streaming
  • • PostgreSQL (Azure Database for PostgreSQL)
  • • Redis for caching and session management
  • • Kong API Gateway
  • • Istio service mesh
  • • Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK Stack
  • • GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Terraform

Outcomes

85%
Reduction in time-to-market for new products
99.95%
System availability achieved (vs. 99.7% prior)
250M+
Annual transactions processed via new platform
  • Real-time transaction capabilities enabling instant payments and fraud detection
  • API-first architecture accelerating digital channel development and partner integration
  • Improved regulatory compliance with automated AML screening and real-time reporting
  • Enhanced resilience with multi-zone deployment and automated failover
  • Developer productivity improvements via self-service platform and CI/CD automation
  • Successful production rollout with zero customer-facing incidents during migration

Technologies Used

AzureKubernetesJavaSpring BootKafkaPostgreSQLRedisIstioKongTerraformGitLab CIArgoCD