Modernization and Migration to Microsoft Azure Cloud for a leading Swedish Multinational Engineering Company

About the Customer

Our customer is a Swedish multinational engineering group specialising in metal cutting, digital and additive manufacturing, mining and construction, stainless and special steel alloys, and industrial heating. The company was founded in Sweden in 1862, and in 2020, the Group had approximately 37,000 employees and revenues of about 86 billion SEK in more than 160 countries.

Overview

The company had more than 20+ web/mobile applications that were built on legacy technologies using an on-premises database. The company was looking to modernise these applications by leveraging Microsoft Azure.

Tarento as the partner of choice

Tarento’s capabilities with Microsoft Azure, expertise in Application Integration and Data Engineering made it the solution provider of choice.

Challenges

There were several challenges associated with the modernization exercise including:

• Legacy MySQL and Oracle data migration from the old system to the Azure SQL database and warehouse
• Design and development of Data Pipeline to sync data between multiple sources/target application
• Design and development of EAI and B2B Application Integration Solution for complex business scenarios
• Optimization of existing PowerBI reports
• Ensuring zero down time and performance improvement during migration
• Making the system GDPR compliant

Solution

Tarento redesigned and developed all the applications, leveraging a low code/no code platform that uses Azure as the analytics platform. We designed and developed Azure infrastructure, application integration, and data engineering solutions including:

• Designed and developed a highly secure and scalable Analytics Cloud Platform on Azure.
• Designed and developed Azure Data Factory/Synapse/Databricks pipelines to sync data between multiple sources/target application
• Designed and developed EAI & B2B Integration using Azure Logic App, API Management, Service Bus, Relay, and IOT hubs
• Improved the performance of existing PowerBI reports by optimising the data model
• Developed GDPR compliant processes and guidelines. We also updated the features and functionality of the components to ensure GDPR compliance
• The applications and data were moved to the new environment in groups without any downtime
• We also provided a 24*7 support model

Outcomes and Impact

• More than 5 Mobile/Web Apps have been successfully migrated to the new platform
• The new Azure Cloud Data Analytics Platform is highly secure/scalable and has boosted performance by 50–60%
• All support processes have all been streamlined