Summary
Key results
Lower infrastructure costs through a container-based integration architecture
Automated environment creation reduced from days to minutes
Legacy platforms limiting global integration delivery
The business produces around 2 billion doses of medicines and vaccines each year and operates across a large international footprint. At this scale, integration platforms must support reliable application and data flows between systems, while keeping delivery fast, repeatable, and cost-efficient.
The existing landscape, based on TIBCO BusinessWorks and Informatica PowerCenter, was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain and scale. Informatica PowerCenter was no longer being developed by the vendor, while the TIBCO BusinessWorks environment needed greater scalability, flexibility, and reliability. At the same time, the platforms relied on local infrastructure, which increased the cost of maintaining the company’s own data centers, servers, and related components.
This model also affected delivery. Environments were prepared manually, which made configurations inconsistent, increased the risk of human error, and slowed down new integration projects. As part of a strategic move to the cloud, the company needed to migrate toward a cloud-ready integration platform and iPaaS model covering application and data integration, infrastructure, and DevOps.
To support this ongoing global migration, the business engaged Sii to help with the pilot, migration support tools, and process automation.
Migrating to a cloud-ready integration platform
Sii supported the migration through platform engineering, DevOps automation, migration support tools, and development environment automation.
The scope of work included:
- CI/CD automation – adapting Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery processes for container-based deployments on OpenShift and GitHub Actions
- Centralized logging – building a custom centralized logging solution based on Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Splunk
- TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition images – improving container images in cooperation with TIBCO
- Routing architecture – redesigning and improving the custom routing mechanism
- Memory optimization tool – creating a custom solution based on Sii’s proprietary algorithms to reduce resource usage and lower platform costs
- Workstation as a Service – developing a container-based, ready-to-use, and preconfigured development environment for TIBCO BusinessEvents, TIBCO BusinessWorks 5, TIBCO BusinessWorks 6, and TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition
Together, these activities provided the technical foundation for further migration work across integration, infrastructure, and DevOps.
Lower costs and faster integration delivery
By moving integration work toward a container-based environment, Sii helped the business reduce its dependency on local infrastructure and the costs of maintaining its own data centers, servers, and related components. The new model also supported more efficient use of platform resources through memory optimization, helping the company save time, resources, and operating costs.
Automation made environment configuration more consistent and repeatable. Instead of relying on manual preparation, teams gained a standardized way to create environments, reducing the risk of human error and cutting setup time from over a dozen days to dozens of minutes. This helped teams start new integration projects faster and with fewer configuration issues.
Sii also improved the operational foundation for further migration work. Centralized logging created one source of logs for easier analysis, while routing improvements, memory optimization, and ready-to-use development workstations supported more predictable delivery across integration, infrastructure, and DevOps workstreams.
Key results
- Lower costs, time, and resource use through container-based infrastructure
- Environment provisioning reduced from over a dozen days to dozens of minutes
- More consistent environment configuration with fewer manual errors
- Streamlined and standardized implementation of integration projects on OpenShift