Overhaul of all applications, data sources, and integrations under a modern, unified technology stack. This included gaining buy in from the entire organization, retraining all technical staff & developers, and rewriting an entire suite of applications to reduce technical debt, scale resources, and modernize the organization.

+150,000

Lines of Code Written

Single points of failure in Production Architecture Removed

+130

Core Data Points identified and placed in correct platform of authority

+150,000

Lines of code written in a modern technology stack

Overview

Strategically aligned technical architecture to organizational business objectives
Removed duplication of datapoints, unified databases, drastically improved reporting accuracy
Improved User Experience by aligning presentation layer across all applications
Reduce time to market with respect to SDLC (Software Development Life-cycle)
Aligned all applications under a single technology stack
Created a scalable service-oriented architecture; decoupling presentation layer, business logic layer, and data layer
Applied DevOps Principles; all production code deployed is automated with unit testing using Jenkins, all code stored in GitHub Repos, all production servers are AWS EC2 Instances

Past Architecture

Multiple Authentication Points resulting in users have many different accounts.
Multiple version of related data with no clear authoritative data source for a variety of data points.
Disjointed User Experience, using I-Frames, which resulted in a very inconsistent experiences for end users.
Independent technologies where used to create many of the applications making any updates specific to a single developer
Technologies included: ASP Classic, ASP .Net, PHP, No Service Layer, Multi Overlapping Database

Current Architecture

Move all technologies under a unified MEAN stack.
This resulted in a much more consistent software development life cycle process and a defined layer for the various aspect of the application to be built in. No more hunting around for where a specific set of code was buried.
All applications where converted to AngularJS Single Page applications and then wrapped as a simple CMS Module resulting a very loosely coupled execution.
The result being, we can change CMS’s at any time with minimal effort.
Applied a unified REST service layer allowing the separation of the presentation layer from the logic layer.
Resulting in a consistent layer where all business logic is applies, this also allows the re-use of services that overlap between different applications.
Defined authoritative data sources, most importantly the authentication layer.
The result being more accurate and faster data queries as well as the ability to provide the users with a true Single Sign On experience. We also applied the concept of document databases (such as MongoDB) in areas where applications could be modeled as such or where we could make gains using it as a caching database.

unified architecture

Overview

Past Architecture

Current Architecture

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