Accelerating Software Development with Azure DevOps
Leveraging Azure DevOps helps Sector Alarm speed up deployment time from weeks to hours
Business Challenge
As a forward-thinking industry leader, Sector Alarm aims to be mobile for its employees and omnipresent for its customers. A variety of applications and solutions developed in-house by Sector Alarm required a modern approach to organizing operational processes.
To help the in-house team deliver the utmost value, Sector Alarm needed to enhance its software development and delivery processes with more DevOps expertise and capacity. Boosting the internal team's capabilities with external DevOps expertise would help Sector Alarm implement DevOps best practices, migrate business systems to the cloud, as well as reorganize and enhance the development process.
Solution
Sector Alarm teamed up with Tietoevry Create to accelerate the modernization of the software development processes by embracing DevOps methodology:
- Implementation of DevOps best practices and principles
- Migration of on-premises systems (business systems) to the Microsoft Azure cloud
- Setting up CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for products in development
- Testing and planning for implementation of Application Performance monitoring (to enable end-to-end visibility in business systems)
- Governance of Azure resources with a standardized approach to documentation
- Reduction of security and performance risks by moving from manual to automated deployment
- 100 Web applications were migrated, including 3 Web applications which were re-hosted to Azure
- Project timeframe: January 2018 – December 2018 (migration part), January 2019 – present (support part).
Technologies & Tools
- Azure App Service
- Azure App Service Environment
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Application Gateway
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure Monitor
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure API Management Gateway
- Azure Automation
Business Value
A new approach to software production allowed Sector Alarm to boost its development process, rebalance internal resources to improve the performance capacity and establish a framework for further development, thanks to:
- Automated delivery processes enabled by Azure DevOps
- Accelerated deployment – hours instead of weeks from release to production
- Enhanced information security
- Improved compliance by restricting access to end-users’ personal data
- Eliminated bottlenecks in production associated with manual deployment.
While having achieved great success at the current stage, we proceed with further modernization of the development process to enforce Sector Alarm digital strategy.