July 22, 2022 by Neudesic + Large Global Investment and Advisory Financial Services Firm Building an Azure App Services Architecture to Reduce Outages by 90% and Promote Faster Innovation with Reduced Operational Dependence Built in partnership with: Project Highlights 90% Reduction In outages with a service-oriented architecture 60% Improvement In cost efficiencies by optimizing their Azure environment Quick Stats Industry: Professional Services Organization Size: 200,000+ employees Annual Revenue: $45B Solution: App Modernization Organization Location: London, England Challenge: The client offers professional services and diverse capabilities, including cloud, ESG, cybersecurity, risk, and tax services to assist companies in solving pressing challenges. Their current architecture was prone to frequent outages, creating performance and cost inefficiencies. The client was already in the cloud but wanted to leverage a service-oriented architecture that would enable them to make their global tax system, which featured ~30 apps, broadly available and publicly accessible. Solution: The client engaged Neudesic to facilitate their transformation initiative. Everything was migrated to Azure App Services and Neudesic’s Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub IP was leveraged to establish how new apps are plugged into their new ecosystem.All app services were put behind App Gateway and Front Door, enabling the running of a continuous app across Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Benefits: This solution enables pluggability inside the architecture so new apps can be provisioned inside the framework and identity flow can be established. The client expanded their Azure footprint to run in Azure App Services, and is benefiting from: 90% reduction in outages 60% improvement in cost efficiencies Scalability, operational excellence, cost optimization, and performance efficiency Data permissions and roles can be easily assigned for audit engagements Back to App Innovation
