OVERVIEW

Client Goals

Consolidate IT Vendors

Replace four fragmented IT vendors with a single managed outsourcing partner for end-to-end accountability.

Reduce IT Costs

Achieve 35–40% cost reduction in Year 1 without compromising service quality or system reliability.

Modernise Legacy Systems

Migrate 12 legacy applications from on-premise infrastructure to a cloud-native architecture on AWS.

Improve System Uptime

Move from 97.2% uptime to 99.9%+ availability across all mission-critical insurance platforms.

Ensure Compliance

Maintain SOC 2, HIPAA, and state-level insurance regulatory compliance throughout the transition.

Enable 24/7 Support

Establish round-the-clock monitoring and L1–L3 support coverage across US and India time zones.

Technology Alignment

CORE PLATFORMS

.NET (C#), Java (Spring Boot), SQL Server, Oracle DB

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront), Azure AD, Terraform

MONITORING & OBSERVABILITY

Datadog, PagerDuty, Splunk, CloudWatch

CI/CD & DEVOPS

Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)

SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

CrowdStrike, Qualys, AWS GuardDuty, HashiCorp Vault

COLLABORATION

ServiceNow (ITSM), Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams

CHALLENGE

Fragmented Vendors and Rising IT Costs

Vendor Sprawl

Four separate IT vendors with overlapping scopes, conflicting SLAs, and no single point of accountability for incidents.

Legacy System Failures

12 on-premise applications averaging 3+ unplanned outages per month, costing $200K+ in lost productivity.

Compliance Risk

Inconsistent security practices across vendors creating audit gaps and regulatory exposure across 14 states.

Slow Incident Response

Average incident resolution time of 8+ hours due to unclear escalation paths and multi-vendor coordination.

SOLUTION

Strategic Approach

SINGLE-PARTNER MODEL

Consolidated all IT operations under Expedite with a dedicated 35-person team — dev, ops, QA, and security.

PHASED CLOUD MIGRATION

Migrated 12 legacy apps to AWS in 4 phases over 6 months with zero-downtime cutover strategy.

24/7 NOC & SUPPORT

Established a Network Operations Centre with L1–L3 support, 15-minute SLA for critical incidents.

COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORK

Built unified compliance controls — SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and state insurance audits passed in Year 1.

PROACTIVE MONITORING

Deployed Datadog + PagerDuty with auto-remediation runbooks, reducing manual interventions by 70%.

QUARTERLY BUSINESS REVIEWS

Executive-level QBRs with SLA performance dashboards, cost tracking, and continuous improvement roadmaps.

CONCLUSION

Results Achieved

40% Cost Reduction

Annual IT spend reduced from $8.2M to $4.9M by consolidating vendors and optimising cloud infrastructure.

99.9% Uptime

System availability improved from 97.2% to 99.95% — zero unplanned outages in the last 6 months of Year 1.

75% Faster Resolution

Mean time to resolution reduced from 8 hours to under 2 hours with structured escalation and auto-remediation.

12 Apps Migrated

All legacy applications successfully migrated to AWS with zero data loss and zero business disruption.

100% Compliance

SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and all 14-state insurance audits passed with zero findings in Year 1.

3-Year Partnership

Client expanded engagement to include application development and data engineering in Year 2.