Situation

• Frontier GeoTek(FGI) is a spatial analytics company utilizing a Geographic Information System. They support many of the largest telecommunications companies in the U.S.
• FGI had many production web applications for their customers written in outdated PHP.
• The employee who wrote these applications had left the company, and FGI had no developers employed at the time.
• Most of the applications were unfinished or needed added functionality.
• FGI needed technical guidance on SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) processes and best practices.
• Servers and applications would routinely crash, causing interruptions to customers and requiring FGI to respond to after-hours support.

Solution

• The Brainspire team performed an audit of all existing applications and resources, discovering ways to reduce costs and improve resiliency.
• The team gradually migrated existing legacy PHP/jQuery functionality to C# .NET Core and Vue.js.
• The team migrated the applications from local hosting to Azure hosting.
• They added automating builds and deployments support by adding automated tests (CI/CD).
• The team used Agile methodology to help FGI estimate and meet deadlines across all projects.

Benefits

• With the Brainspire team’s assistance, FGI was able to meet current obligations and start new development projects.
• FGI now has more accurate timelines and estimates for development projects.
• The development process increased visibility to the current and projected status of projects.
• CI/CD provided confidence and reliability for deployments.
• There was a decrease in support incidents.
• FGI’s hosting costs were reduced by approximately 30%.
• There has been an improved redundancy and durability of applications by using Azure features and multiple regions.

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