A global specialty chemicals company wanted to upgrade its legacy metanomics information system (METIS) for accelerated assessment of chemicals.

Infosys developed a bespoke multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution on the cloud that can be used by different entities across the enterprise as well as partners.

Key Challenges

The company's proprietary legacy application had several issues:

  • On-premise, intranet-based single-tenant app lacked scalability
  • Built on legacy technology (Perl script), the application had performance and maintenance issues
  • Archaic data management and processes required a high degree of manual intervention
  • Unpredictable system functionality caused a loss of notifications and data
  • High total cost of ownership due to reliance on third-party systems for generating reports

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The Solution

Cloud solution enables one-click access to chemical information with a robust query engine

Infosys developed a cloud solution that enables business users to make sense of chemical data. It allows professionals to promptly retrieve and visualize data in the form of intuitive dashboards, spider charts, tables with interactive filters, and drill-down capabilities.

Our solution is built using cross-platform open-source tools. It incorporates application components with automated continuous integration-continuous delivery and gated approvals for controlled deployments.

Our team adopted a decoupled architecture and leveraged microservices to offload intensive data processing. We used a scalable, future-proof database architecture to automate data loading and data anomaly reporting.

Decoupled architecture leverages microservices to manage intensive data processing

  • Automation enables data anomaly reporting and accelerated data loading with in-app notifications
  • In-app third-party query implementation eliminates third-party systems for data reporting

Benefits

Performance

Our solution resulted in an estimated 98% improvement across search modules, and 99% improvement for batch modules

Data integrity

The customized solution ensured 100% data reliability and scale

System functionality

The application had zero key feature breaks, and 99.99% availability

Cost of ownership

Our solution reduced maintenance cost by 40%, with annual cost savings of US$ 25,000+ by eliminating third-party systems for report generation

New revenue stream

Our platform can be monetized for consulting services to external partners

ELF rating

The company received rating of 7/7 in two instances