Challenge

Being a leading public-school , the traffic to the website during the admission period which is from January to March of every year has been very high & unpredictable even resulted in crashing of the website.

Solution

Minfy's Implementation team along with the Cloud architects worked with Infrastructure team & business stakeholders from the customer’s end to derive out the migration plan to ensure on zero / very minimal interruption to the website’s availability.
● Applications were moved in a manual lift and shift approach.
● According to customer's solution architecture, server size, OS and
RAM the Infrastructure on cloud was designed and deployed.

Benefits

• Agility in the infrastructure
• Performance at Scale
• Faster Innovation
• High Availability
• Security

Challenge

Since the business model deals with the storage of large amounts of structured and unstructured data in the form of documents, images and videos for analytics purpose, reliability, availability, and durability along with cost becomes a major challenge. Another challenge was accidental deletion of data with less or no option for retrieval.

Shore Group also wished to overhaul their existing document repository and discovery product to meet the growing market expectations related to search and performance.

Solution

1. Set up file management and content processing engine based on the Serverless Application Modelling Architecture of AWS
2. AWS DynamoDB has been configured to manage the workflow entities
3. AWS SQS has been configured to ensure parallel processing of file movement from one bucket to another and to extract content from each file
4. AWS Elasticsearch has been configured to allow a full-text search of the document
5. We used the S3versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored.

-SAP Solutions Manager 7.2 is to be Installed at AWS.

Benefits

Shore has adapted AWS to resolve existing challenges, also achieving durability of 11 9’s and availability of 99.9% through it. S3 versioning was leveraged to ensure data was never lost even if it is accidentally deleted.

The need to have SAN, NAS infrastructure for redundant backup storage and infrastructure was no longer necessary as buckets could be replicated. EBS based solution with EC2 instance running watcher functions was not an ideal solution for shore group as it did not ensure security or reliability.

Nodes with watcher functions on EC2 instances to watch for files to be processed were replaced with SQS along with the logic of processing of the input jobs automatically using Lambda. This has enabled shore to go serverless reducing overheads of SLA and increasing performance.

Data breach threat was solved by using Server Side Encryption and Key Management Service – KMS-SSE combination to protect S3 buckets.

Challenge

Microsoft has announced end of support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise or Standard and SQL Server 2008 R2.

Liberty had to either upgrade on-premise or move to cloud.

SAP recommends patching of Support Packages to keep applications up to date on a regular basis.

Need Modern cutting-edge IT infrastructure for their Business Expansion.

Setting up of Windows Failover Cluster.

Solution

-SAP Landscape was transformed from on premise DC to AWS Cloud.
-AWS was the best fit solution for their infrastructure to optimize cost.
-AWS provides the option to upgrade Application Support Pack Stacks as desired for ECC Landscape.
-Liberty has to Upgrade to the Windows server 2016 Enterprise or Standard and SQL Server 2016 R2.
-SAP ERP Production is to be migrated to MSFC.
-SAP Business Objects 4.2 is to be installed on AWS.
-SAP Business Objects reports are to be Migrated by Using PM.
-SAP Solutions Manager 7.2 is to be Installed at AWS.

Benefits

End of Support was solved by AWS EMP (End-Of-Support Migration Program) for Windows Server.

Liberty has migrated their legacy ERP applications to supported version of Windows Server on AWS without any code changes.

The ERP system stays secure and compliant by mitigating the challenges occurred by EOS by following EMP.

Performance has improved due to adaptation of the AWS compared to the on-premise infrastructure.

Challenge

- Manufacturing Industries are facing an inflection point today defined by challenges to growth and opportunities to improve quality.

- Willowood was facing an outage of DC when running SAP production workloads.

- Availability of the SAP system due to downtime was a major challenge faced by the customer leading to business compromise.

- Lack of the cloud infrastructure support was affecting their compliance requirements.

- The Willowood wanted to continue to lower IT costs and increase operational efficiency for the SAP production systems.

Solution

• SAP workloads were running on Azure Cloud.

• CloudEndure tool was used to migrate workloads on Windows.

• SAP Migration process was used for migrate workloads on SUSE Linux.

• Availability and durability was ensured through Multi-AZ deployments of DB instances.

Benefits

• Willowood saved up to 30% cost by moving to AWS.

• Manages the AWS infrastructure with up to 25% less staff.

• Migrating to the AWS Cloud helps increase your overall operational agility.

•Lowered operational cost by automating manual SAP application maintenance.

Challenge

The customer was dealing with the following challenges in scaling their existing data warehouse business intelligence stored procedures:
- CAPEX and OPEX for developing a new solution on on-premise were far too high.
- Cost of implementing is high as the client first need to move data to servers from traditional system and then buy BI tools and run it. This involves cost of buying hardware, software, hiring IT staff and other overhead.

Solution

Minfy has proposed to build a Web API based solution using Dotnetcore 2.1, AWS Serverless API - SAM, dotnetcli Lambda Tool Kit3.2.3 on Lambda + API Gateway.

- Build on AWS by following AWS best practices with guidelines for implementation leveraging different AWS Services. With
lesser time to market & with very minimal capex.

Customers will be logging in to the platform through the user interface developed by the customer , once logged in based on the query / type of report the respective Web API will be triggered & will render the BI report in the form of graph .The data is being fetched from the stored procedure from respective Web API .

- Application has been built using AWS – SAM template with Dot Netcore 2.1
- Aurora server less MySQL version 5.6 database for storing the transaction details
- Dynamo DB will work as a lookup table for different client to access their Database in RDS.

Solution

Reduce Cost of Ownership
The customer was able to develop the business intelligence solution /platform on AWS Cloud with reduced CAPEX and OPEX by up to 80%.
Preserve Business Investment
Minfy solution removes the requirement of rewriting applications—a long, expensive, and risk-laden process for enterprises—thus allowing the customer to protect their long-standing investments in the development of custom business logic.
Accelerated Time to Value
Customer was able to reduce the time required to re-platform by 85%.
Fast Deployment & Simple Implementation
can be deployed instantly and implementation of CI/CD helped in faster deployment & testing time frames.

Challenge

The NRC includes the names of all citizens who have been residing in Assam before March 25, 1971. The NRC first list was created in 1951 after Independence. The application process for the NRC started in May 2015 and a total of 6.5 crore documents were received from 68.27 lakh families across the state of Assam. The demand for updating in the list gained steam in 1980 during the anti-illegal foreigners' movement in Assam. The move was aimed at protecting the indigenous culture of Assam from illegal Bangladesh immigrants.

The NRC received heavy media coverage and was in the National Headlines of all the major News Publications.

NRC has planned to conduct the verification drive to de-port the illegal immigrants to their respective countries and impact of the reports/data provided to be showcased on this platform, high media visibility, the unpredictable nature of the viewer count, including the high data volume, the challenge put across the team was to come up with a solution covering all aspects of scalability.

With 3.29 crores of applicants expected to do the e-verification, rightsizing for the infrastructure is highly challenging & the capital investments required to build the physical DC & time frame to complete the verification was highly impossible.

Solution

Minfy has proposed a highly scalable solutions leveraging AWS services with low time to market, auto-scale as per load and high versatility with optimum performance even under high load.

Benefit

Optimized Serverless solution was provided with help of AWS Lambda, Auto-scale & Aurora for scalability, ease in migration of data of crores citizens using AWS Data Migration Services seamlessly. Leveraging the scalable solution provided the entire state population was able to do the e-verification using the portal in the stipulated period of time & this news was covered in entire newspapers & media channels in India.

Challenge

- Business Expansion: Labaid was going through an rapid business expansion phase , current laboratories are expected to expand f rom 7 to 20 & one more new hospital to get added to the chain .
- Operational Expenditure: Operational expenses needed to be reduced, including hardware maintenance costs.
Infrastructure Agility: As the ERP is also used by the customers for report extraction scaling up & down as per the need.
- Time to Market: Labaid has decided to launch the new laboratories & Hospital in short span of time so physical hardware
procurement was a challenge.
- Lab Management: ERP to be implemented Set up infrastructure on AWS cloud, in the Singapore Region.
- Connectivity: All Labaid units to securely connect to the Cloud Infrastructure Application centralised to the server to
run primarily as internet facing applications. Except for the on-premise Lab Hardware integration Software which
is for intranet
- Reports online: Patients should be able to connect through the online portal to view reports

- Application Accessibility: Selective Applications to be made public for access to patients & accessible through browser

Benefit

Hospital Management system-ERP & In house applications migrated to AWS cloud with no business interruptions for access to all the 17 Laboratories & 2 hospitals with in the expected timelines

The decision of leveraging the AWS cloud has freed their core team of infrastructure administration and scaling tasks, while also freeing the development process from costly, time-consuming version control errors. Along with significant savings in time-to-build and deploy, the effort, cost, and time for infrastructure planning and maintenance has also reduced.

Challenge

Jagonews couldn’t scale their on premise DC rapidly to cater the expected increase in website traffic as a result of extensive advertising & marketing campaigns. A 90* degree steep spike was predicted in the incoming traffic to website & mobile App.

On premise DC expansion with procuring hardware to maximise the capacity 10 times the current is not viable considering the time frame & tedious hardware procurement process. Being a new channel delivery the news fast & hassle free streaming of videos was a challenge.

Solution

Transforming a traditional DC to a Next Gen Agile Infrastructure model is Minfy’s expertise and Jagonews was presented with a one year growth strategy that will help them to build their online presence through cloud adoption Minfy will act as an Digital transformation partner to provide support and services on Infrastructure & application modernisation.

Benefit

Within a few months after migrating to AWS Cloud through digital marketing, Jagonews started experiencing steady growth in website traffic and after a period of six months, they reached a new milestone as they recorded a website rank of less than 5000 across the globe which is a 30% scale up in the ranking. That also elevated their influence and positioned them as one of the leading News channel in their country with a growing digital presence.

Challenge

Our client deals with all the typical start-up challenges of resources and bandwidth. Many of their software developers were occupied with manual administrative processes for their software development. These manual processes included code push, code merge, building & testing, as well as code deployment. Because these tasks were being done manually, build and compile errors were not being tracked, and there were several instances of uncontrolled commits and merges across different developer teams on different branches such as development, QA, UAT, and live branches. With wrong code being merged into code repositories, the day-to-day manual deployment issues caused major mess-ups, and in some cases wrong code deployments, requiring huge efforts and interventions to resolve. These challenges put a large strain on the software developers and they were unable to devote focused attention to their primary tasks of writing great code and developing great products. The in-house team was not aware of the DevOps competency nor familiar with the industry best practices. Hence, the company approached us to help them shorten their product development lifecycle, through the philosophy of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD).

Benefits

The DevOps methodology leveraging the AWS stack has freed developers of infrastructure administration and scaling tasks, while also freeing the development process from costly, time-consuming version control errors. Along with significant savings in time to build and deploy, the effort, cost, and time for infrastructure planning and maintenance has also reduced. The several trainings that we conducted in Knowledge Crystals on the new framework for build, deployments, and testing has significantly improved their resource efficiency. The new email approval plugin has enabled a streamlined release management process, and the implementation of code is now practically seamless. Also, the new build notifications have greatly contributed towards the overall stability of the build process.

Challenge

With GST being an extremely complex ground-breaking initiative that completely did away with several legacy tax laws and regulations, the Indian industry struggled with teething problems. A growing number of businesses were expected to use the new platform to ensure their tax compliance, and our client needed to ensure scalability of the solution. Further, due to the complex, evolving nature of the new tax rules, the solution had to address several other challenges such as frequent configuration changes and updates, and enhanced security policies.

One of the main components of the GST compliance solution was a module to generate e-way bill (EWB) numbers for goods being transported across the country for further processing or sales. The EWB solution was a workflow and collaboration platform for stake-holders such as manufacturers, transporters, and recipients, that generated e-way bills electronically and included an audit trail that integrated with the overall GST Compliance Solution. To deal with these several ongoing challenges, our client engaged Minfy to host the module's application infrastructure on the cloud and also make it DevOps compliant.

Solution Overview

As the EWB solution, as part of the overall GST Compliance solution, deals with sensitive business critical data of our client’s customers, the architecture was built to have rock solid security features. A custom VPC was used, with deployment of an OpenVPN deployed in the public subnet. This helped with establishing a VPN connection between a customer's corporate network to the AWS network which could be used on demand. Due to the constantly changing regulatory landscape, new notifications on changes to the GST laws were being released by the Income Tax department almost every other day. AWS components such as Lambda, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and Code-Commit which were used in the solution architecture relieved our client’s developers from operational and infrastructure administration tasks and also enabled easy collaboration. This helped them focus on keeping the solution up to date. Also, AWS CodePipeline helped them with the continuous and constant release of updates and patches. As the GST roll-out gathered momentum, and over two hundred and fifty companies got onto the solution platform, actionable insights and alerts from AWS CloudWatch helped our client respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resources.

Benefits

Better Tax Compliance and Supply Chain Efficiencies

With the DevOps framework, AWS-enabled E-way bill solution, our client was able to offer its customers across the country a speedy, scalable, cost-efficient and highly secure means to remain tax compliant amidst changing regulatory requirements. The electronically generated e-way bills have helped with reducing police harassment and corruption issues for transporters and minimized the complexities associated with remaining tax-compliant. At Minfy, the team that helped build the solution view their efforts as a contribution towards building supply chain efficiencies for the nation.