A leading European player in delivering and managing global compensation plans, expanding its horizons to take position as a global leader.
Client’s requirement was to boost its clientele by 40 times within a short span of time. Client needed to revamp the existing platform without disrupting its existing operations to achieve this business goal. Infosys partnered in this program to enable quick time to market along with rich feature-based, efficient, reliable deliverables.
Key Challenges
- Slow-paced product delivery with existing legacy processes and infrastructure
- Production release cycles were not automated, heavy dependency on operations team
- Infrastructure was not ready to handle 40 times the number of existing clients
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The Solution
Comprehensive Agile DevOps Leveraged Transformation
People: Agile DevOps introduced by fostering atmosphere of trust, empathy, and transparency
Process: Institutionalized scaled agile processes and necessary DevOps practices with a holistic approach, rather than in parts
Tools: A CI/CD pipeline with appropriate toolset built for efficient and faster time to market
Infosys Approach
- Small, cross functional agile framework deployed, and a common product vision was defined
- Feature-based delivery model was established, aligned with the product vision
- Application roadmap for infrastructure needs were assessed and infrastructure was revamped based on capacity and forecast for storage, CPU, and memory
- DevOps pipelines were automated using Jenkins, Ansible, and Liquibase to reduce manual interventions and shorten cycle time
- Continuous inspection of code quality by performing Crucible-enabled review along static analysis of code. Hence detecting bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities early
- Quicker time to market was achieved by shift-left of testing activities and making batch sizes for releases smaller and frequent
- Selenium automated functional and regression testing for quicker test execution
- Performance testing automated using JMeter and integrated to the CI/CD pipeline
Benefits
Release frequency increased by 4 times
83% reduction in cycle time to onboard new customer achieved through this transformation
50% reduction in build time, deployment cycle was reduced to 1/6th of the existing time
Cost saving of 650K achieved using automation
Successful releases with good quality boosted the client’s confidence to increase release throughput by 10 times
