Our Work

First Merchants Bank

Accelerating Success with Ongoing Cloud Managed Services

First Merchants was in an aggressive growth and acquisition mode, but their legacy operating model was unable to efficiently take on the various platforms and workloads of the financial institutions they were acquiring.

They wanted to extend their data center to quickly start leveraging cloud operating models that modernized their technology approach, with the goal of eventually working their way into the cloud over the next 3 to 5 years, while also having a data center footprint by employing a hybrid cloud model.

Machines and Cloud’s relationship with First Merchants began with a two-day visioning workshop during which it was discovered that an agile, native AWS approach was much better suited to their business, operations, and budget.

Through close collaboration, Machines and Cloud was able to expedite the cloud journey due to the increased knowledge and skillsets of the combined teams. This allowed the Machines and Cloud team to reallocate those dollars and quickly shift the project focus to accelerating the migration-strategy phase.

Machines and Cloud also recommended SCPs for limiting deployment to approved Regions, and implemented a strategy for deploying users and roles for SSO configuration.

TennCare

Delivering Powerful and Comprehensive IT Strategy, Development, and Operations Support

TennCare is the state of Tennessee’s managed Medicaid agency focused on improving lives through high-quality, cost-effective care.

TennCare was frustrated by the lack of accountability and leadership with their (now) former external IT management vendor and were seeking a new Operations and Management (O&M) Partner to support the ongoing daily IT operations and system enhancement requests.

Machines and Cloud’s ServiceNow expertise combined with an industry-leading Managed Services team has taken on TennCare’s O&M activities, addressing immediate issues and gaps left unresolved by the prior vendor.

In addition, Machines and Cloud is collaborating with TennCare’s leadership to build long term growth and operational strategy using the latest technology and results-oriented services professionals.

Avenu Insights & Analytics

Azure Migration for Scalability and Portability

Avenu had acquired another company that had an Azure foundation. That company had a pay-as-you-go payment plan, paid for by an individual employee instead of the IT team. In addition to this payment plan, Avenu recognized that the application they were using was not sustainable from a cloud perspective.

This application hosted multiple different web pages for its clients. These pages needed to scale to meet the needs of each individual client.

First, Machines and Cloud designed and deployed an initial enterprise framework. Next, Avenu’s current application was migrated out of VM into Azure Web Apps.

Machines and Cloud helped Avenu successfully implement and migrate to an Azure Framework and their applications were brought under enterprise governance. The responsibility of managing Avenu’s public cloud was shifted to the IT department, making them the gatekeeper to public cloud services.

As a result, Avenu was then able to deploy a cloud framework that would grow their Azure footprint over time.

arcusfi.com

Making payments possible for everyone!

Arcus is a FinTech solutions that provides through easy and simple endpoints allow their clients to offer their users a wide variety of payment functionalities. The platform handles and processes all the heavy lifting around payment processing, meaning our clients don't need to know the intricacies of banking.

Machines and Cloud built Ruby on Rails application with PCI COMPLIANCE, fully automated with passenger, rails, Docker, Terraform and AWS. Various environments with all services under AWS Autoscaling, AWS EC2, AWS VPC and PostgreSQL. We Orchestrated development environments per each developer using Docker Compose, Terraform and Ansible.

As well as transforming Docker Compose Testing environment towards a Production AWS ECS cluster. Machines and Cloud went above and beyond by enabling multiple "Azure" environments to connect with Bank of America and PCI compliance.

Prime Therapeutics

Rapid Deployment of a Cloud-based Business Analytics Platform on Google Cloud

Prime Therapeutics is a leading pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firm owned by 18 not-for-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans across the United States.

Prime Therapeutics had developed a new data and analytics platform, critical to their business operations and growth strategy. Soon after selecting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to host it, Prime’s leadership accelerated the project’s go-live date, requiring IT to onboard data and the new analytics platform in just six weeks. Prime’s IT team realized they didn’t have the skills in-house to deliver on the new timeline, so they called Machines and Cloud.

Machines and Cloud quickly conducted a technical assessment, creating a rapid development and deployment plan that met leadership’s accelerated timelines. The plan included peer-shadowing routines designed to train up the Prime IT team on design and implementation, ensuring self-sufficiency post-launch.

In addition, Machines and Cloud incorporated additional cybersecurity measures into the new GCP environment to ensure Client’s data environment exceeded HIPAA compliance standards.

AdvantEdge Digital

Self-Driving IT Operations Management

AdvantEdge Digital provides data and analytics to credit unions across the U.S., but deploying its services was too time consuming and resource intensive.

Furthermore, credit unions frequently lack analytical scale and talent, so AdvantEdge had to differentiate its analytics services by making them more accessible and actionable.

The solution was an advanced automation solution involving Azure, Chef, Palo Alto, Meraki, and ServiceNow resulting in a new, cloud-based analytics offering, and onboarding times that dropped from a month down to a couple of days.

Boatsetter.com

The Uber for Boats!

Boat Setter made boating affordable and accessible whether it's a short sail around the bay, a day-long fishing excursion, or a week-long island-hopping charter, Boatsetter offers unique on-the-water experiences for everyone and every budget.

Machines and Cloud built built their system as a Laravel PHP application (Homestead) and Amazon - AWS with more than 40 servers, with multiple API integrations, and 3 different environments all fully automated using Ansible, Terraform and some pieces “containerization".

Machines and Cloud transformed the application towards a highly scalable environment using AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Load Balancer, RDS replication, AWS CloudFront, and with different API’s domains for the backend and front-end.

We additionally setup the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins + AWS Code Deploy. To move away from their legacy and outdated stack tech Bitbucket

Link Logistics

Link Logistics had been experiencing business challenges because of a lack of senior management and reporting.

The organization had inefficient, ad hoc IT practices, with no data product ownership whatsoever. Machines and Cloud helped implement enterprise-wide capabilities to show locations, tenant information, leasing statistics, financials, and forecasting via a single application.

This implementation provided Link Logistics more visibility through a more reliable application. As a result of the consolidation of access to the organization’s data, automated efficiencies are now in place and successfully being managed by a new, trusted analytics team.

Owl.health

A new way of using measurement-based care that goes beyond measuring outcomes

Owl makes it easy for behavioral health organizations to better screen, guide treatment, and engage with patients. Data insights from their measurement-based care platform helps improve clinical outcomes, expand access, and prepare for value-based care.

Machines and Cloud Built a PHP application with Symfony2 Framework from scratch while following HIPAA regulations. We used LEMP Stack within Amazon VPC private network and OpenVPN for a dedicated secure connection per each coworker.

We then Deployed Amazon AutoScaling for the production environment, Migrated the DNS NameServers from Godaddy to Route 53, also Using Amazon ELB, Github, Nginx, ElasticSearch and RDS replication

Leadiq.com

Turn skeptics into pipeline

LeadIQ helps sales eliminate busy work, enrich prospect data & make personalization easy.

They have a Node.js and Golang platform with more than 10,000 users. Machines and Cloud was responsible for design, Architect, Build and Operate their AWS Automated Infrastructure and AWS CI / CD Pipeline.

The project was split in 3 phases.

Phase 1: We used Docker to containerized the application into multiple staging environments using Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Nomad and Consul.

Phase 2: We moved the Docker environment to Amazon ECS, AWS ECR, AWS Autoscaling, AWS Load balancer, AWS codedeploy and Jenkins.

Phase 3: Then created Provisioners, Infrastructure as code, Automated all open source software, Processes, One-Click deployments and async jobs using Ansible, Terraform and Docker.

localmotors.com

"Top Gear America" and "The Fast & Furious"

Local Motors is an open-source motor vehicle designs, with cutting-edge expertise in 3D-printing cars, and impressive self-driving vehicle technology.

Local Motors uses a Python platform to create product designs. Their application has 2 main technologies, Python/Django as Backend and AngularJS as Frontend.

Machines and Cloud brought solutions to run on Chef using AWS chef manager: Opsworks (Chef) and integrates Cloudfront for CDN purposes.

Also, Local motor's team needed a different environment using github branches, to do so, Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline plugin was used along with custom scripts to create EC2 Resources per each environment.