Modernizing to serve a large, complex market
The nonprofit cooperative faced a growing demand for financial services in Brazil’s large, complex and fragmented healthcare system. It wanted to improve its ability to serve members quickly and easily, wherever they were located. This was a particular challenge in hard-to-reach, rural areas. Healthcare organizations and professionals must be able to process payments, buy essential supplies, pay staff salaries and access credit to serve patients effectively.
With its aging on-premises infrastructure, the cooperative found it difficult to deploy new applications such as digital payments and its own online credit card – services that can help it compete with large banks and other financial institutions. Delays, disruptions and outages were hurting member satisfaction. Frequent downtime was also reducing workplace productivity and employee morale. In addition, maintaining legacy systems was costly, and those expenses kept rising.
The cooperative was already using some AWS services and recognized that it could innovate faster, become more efficient and speed up the delivery of new offerings to members by migrating its on-premises systems to the AWS Cloud. Modernizing its IT would also make it easier to-comply with strict security standards like the PCI standard for online payments and account data, privacy laws and other regulatory requirements.
With these goals in mind, the cooperative turned to SoftwareOne for advice on how to migrate from its on-premises data center into the cloud. It also wanted administrative and operational support for migration planning and execution.