Engineering Professional Body

Engineering Professional Body

Overview

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Client Profile

  • Services Cloud Transformation, Enterprise Applications
  • Technology Partners AWS
  • Sector Engineering

Our customer is a Professional Body for Engineers providing CPD training and standards of professional engineering and education.

Version 1 supported the customer with the migration of a bespoke core business CRM system to the Public Cloud

Business Driver for Cloud

Challenges

  • Create a new environment while upgrading the application to newer technologies (Microsoft Operating System, Oracle)
  • Decouple the application and database layers for future flexibility
  • Design a highly available and fault tolerant system
  • Migrate the data and application to the new AWS environment
  • Ensure environment design could meet the requirements
  • Perform thorough system testing in UAT to validate new design and technologies Solution

Solution Proposed by Version 1

  • Setup of Version 1 Reference Architecture in AWS (with monitoring and firewalls).
  • Installation and configuration of web and database server (production, standby, and UAT).
  • Installation and configuration of PHP, as well as the migration of application code to AWS environment.
  • Upgrade of databases from Oracle 11.1 to Oracle 11.2.
  • Managed Services Support and management of the database, application and operating systems.
  • Build a secure environment in the AWS Public Cloud for the customer based on the Version 1 Reference Architecture, setup and configure systems.
  • Perform UAT/integration testing, and migration.

Real Business Benefits Delivered

  • No hardware capital expense, no need to purchase new hardware for an infrastructure refresh
  • Scalability, the ability to scale out in the future.
  • Availability, increased availability in the event of a disaster.
  • Ability to reuse existing Oracle licensing.