The Challenge

A large government agency had limited cloud experience, misaligned local skillsets and resources, hundreds of outdated on-premises applications, and numerous unconnected datasets. Additionally, the agency had many technical individuals but limited strategic or operational understanding of the needs and approach to implement and maintain.

The Solution

iVision Consulting and its partners used education, excellence, and efficiency to collaborate and move a small application build to a larger strategic architecture for more tenants. Our team acted to think about strategy, problems, and people and then sought to address the most appropriate technology platform and applications to address the issues and needs. The initial scope was to operate and maintain an outdated application. Once our team was fully operational, we started to develop an understanding through the development of use cases based on stakeholders’ needs and inefficient data processing and outcomes. Our team used this information along with our technical understanding to provide the senior clients with a thought leadership approach to developing a gradual roadmap to building and deploying a multi-tenancy OCI reference architecture. iVision Consulting eventually built and deployed a multi-tenancy reference architecture (OCI), secured the ATO, onboarded the initial applications and has been working as a thought leader to continue to grow and maintain the utilization of the tenancy, features, bring more workloads to the cloud and run and operate on a daily basis.

Outcomes

• Acted as strategic consultants not just technologists from Day 1 to be able to lead the client down the knowledge path on movement from a cloud migration to a much larger end result.
• Sought out and engaged all stakeholders across the organization to reflect everyone's needs where we found an opportunity for a strategic architecture solution.
• Brought expertise and best practices to the client, which were broadly adopted as the vision and roadmap for the solution.
• Began working on change management early in the process to include operations, skill sets, reporting, and Day 2 to fully leverage all the benefits of the cloud.
• Deployed the OCI reference architecture in 8 months including 3 months to secure the ATO.
• Migrated applications in 3 months or less.

Technology Stack

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• APEX