The Life Science Society for Microbiology is composed of more than 30,000 scientists, educators, and health professionals. its mission is to promote and advance the microbial sciences. The society advances the microbial sciences through conferences, publications, certifications, and educational opportunities. It enhances laboratory capacity around the globe through training and resources. It provides a network for scientists in academia, industry, and clinical settings. Additionally, the society promotes a deeper understanding of the microbial sciences to diverse audiences.
Life Science Society
Size: 51-200 employees
Location: USA – Washington D.C.
The society had committed to modernizing some of the IT solutions and services. This required them to lift and shift various tools and applications to the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform.
In addition to shifting to the Azure Cloud, society needed to create a new set of applications that would streamline specific business processes for their staff members and vendors.
The society runs its internal business processes on an old ERP solution. The ERP solution is leverage by internal applications and applications built by their vendors via a SOAP-based Web Services API. This API needed to be modernized. Additionally, access to the API required very fine-grained security controls to limit what data an API user could access and precisely what data elements an API user could access.
Finally, the society required the implementation of a Single Sign-On solution so that their vendor’s users could cross authenticate amongst other vendor’s sites without the need to keep logging in to each site.
The society vendors operate globally and primarily in the EU, all these solutions that they required needed to be built from the ground up with GDPR compliance baked into the software. The society had to take great care and go to extreme lengths to know where personally identifiable data was stored, track access to that data and have the ability for the individual whose data it was to be able to delete all their personally identifiable data.
The society needs required a multi-phased approach to delivering multiple software-based solutions to meet their and their vendor’s needs.
First and foremost, their solutions needed to be designed from the ground up with the Cloud in mind. All web applications, REST APIs, SQL, and NoSQL databases and storage were designed to be hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud as a SaaS application suite.
Secondly, their applications required a SAML compliant single-sign-on solution for cross-domain authentication also hosted in the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Thirdly they required a brand new ASP.Net/MVC-based REST API layer that needed to be designed to sit on top of their legacy API’s so that their vendors could programmatically interact with society’s APIs.
The solution developed by Cloud 9 Infosystems has been successfully implemented and delivered the quality output with complete client satisfaction.
With Cloud 9 Infosystems multi-phased custom approach and Microsoft Azure Technologies and Services client have noticed the following key business benefits:
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