Description: Cloudification of SaaS Product High Level Summary: Progressive migration of in-house and on-premise services/infrastructure into a high-availability robust cloud platform. Amazon’s AWS platform was selected due to its maturity and identified suitability to software and development platforms. Objective: Primary objectives were driven by lowering CAPEX costs, reducing OPEX with minimal compute power which could…
Description: Implementation SaaS Product High Level Summary: A traditional hosted customer facing CMS system was in production that was originally designed for an alternate market, with simple web GUI drive access and a cumbersome offline client. Highroads were designing a new “V2” system and was in development as a fully SaaS product with both web…
Description: Corporate Asset Sale High Level Summary: During Q4 2015 Highroads sold the assets and IP for their “V1” services, including physical assets, IP, licensing, customer base and staff to Enrollment Advisors, now DirectPath, LLC. The asset sale required a project to divest software, development environments, QA environments, staging environments, demo environments, training environments, DR…
Description: Canadian Operations Closure High Level Summary: In Q4 2016 Highroads announced the closure of their Canadian offices, with the subsequent planned closure of the Canadian company. IT Operations was to be fully handed over to various outsourced vendors, physical presence within the Ottawa office was to be immediately deprecated and the closure of the…
Description: Virtualization Strategy High Level Summary: The Dymon corporate infrastructure was operating on unique physical hardware per server and per service. We identified 8 physical servers of identical capacity that were running at less than 20% utilization, in one instance 0% utilization. Switching and networks were analyzed and we identified 3 totally unused Layer 3…
Description: Thin Client Rollout to Health Care High Level Summary: The Dymon Health Care retirement residences were operating with heavily aged systems that incurred excessive amounts of downtimes, ran various operating systems and various versions of software. A frequent churn of nursing staff required unique profiles to be created on each system repeatedly. We identified…