Emis

Case Study

Cloud Migration

Our elevate & innovate AWS cloud migration strategy was a key factor in supercharging the migration effort at EMIS.

To complement the AWS infrastructure, we implemented Datadog across servers, the network, and synthetic tests. This allowed for precise forecasting of potential issues and the ability to drill down to root causes with high accuracy.

The organization faced automation and skills deficits across various teams during its migration to AWS. Our role was to establish well-architected solutions by developing easy-to-use, repeatable DevOps tools and streamlined operating procedures.

The Client

EMIS Health is the UK’s leading provider of electronic patient record (EPR) systems, primarily through its core product, EMIS Web. To accelerate innovation and deliver the next-generation platform, EMIS-X, the company is undertaking a significant strategic move to migrate its data and services from its legacy data center infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This cloud transition is crucial, as it provides the scale, flexibility, and advanced services necessary to fully develop EMIS-X, which will offer integrated, data-driven solutions intended to revolutionize care coordination across the entire UK health and social care sector.

  • Name
    Emis
  • Turnover
    £200 Million per annum
  • Location
    United Kindgdom

We have partnered with KO Technologies to scale our AWS infrastructure migration.

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Challenges

  • AWS migration is slow and cumbersome
  • Costs are increasing with migration and consumption
  • Cloud adoption & maturity needs improving
  • Legacy infrastructure and applications modernisation

Solutions

  • Automated AWS Implementation: Provided a fully automated deployment of secure EC2 Windows servers, RDS databases,
  • Security and Observability: Implemented an AWS WAF for enhanced front-end security and a Datadog integration to establish full-stack observability.
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Provided DevOps Advisory services to establish a Platform Team capability and implemented GitHub pipelines for robust CI/CD.


Results

At KO Technologies, we believe the numbers speak for themselves. Explore the tangible impact of our strategic implementations, from accelerated deployment timelines to immediate cost reductions and robust system performance.

Speed to innovations is vastly reduced by delivering a modern migration to AWS. We have reduced time to market by 90% by deploying high impact automation.

Teams collaborate seamlessly with the unified Tools and enhanced Devops Techniques.

Modern scalable infrastructure, rather than static and operational burdened servers.

Enhance Observability with Datadog – increasing service levels and lowering time to identify problems.

Toolbox

AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Packer, OIDC, GitHub, Datadog

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