How Semantive's cloud expertise supports Axpo's business agility
Ambitious goals require agility on the IT side and responsiveness to changing business needs. Semantive helped Axpo's IT team find areas for automation and improvement to help the company grow. As a result, a new version of business critical application was developed and deployed, infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines were implemented for two pilot applications, and the foundation for a GCP Landing Zone was laid, leading to streamlined processes, enhanced security, and improved scalability.
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Axpo Polska
Challenges
Ambitious goals require IT adaptability and a keen responsiveness to evolving business requisites. Axpo’s newly reorganized product-focused teams required senior software development and cloud engineering expertise.
The complex development of legacy applications limited business agility, and managing GCP cloud manually has become labor-intensive without security automation.
As the number of teams and infrastructure complexity increased, infrastructure automation, preconfigured CI/CD pipelines, and guardrails for development teams became crucial.
Solutions
Semantive provided senior expertise to speed up business application development and streamlined the software delivery process.
Key areas of cooperation involved:
- Augmenting Axpo’s IT team with senior roles and development of core business applications.
- Automating cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
- Implementing a CI/CD pipeline to ensure consistent code quality and deployment across environments.
- Designing a GCP Landing Zone, incorporating best practices for security and scalability.
- Creating a target application maturity model with Axpo as a foundation for internal standards for developing applications.
Outcomes
As a result of our cooperation, Axpo achieved several outcomes:
- Sped up development of several business critical applications
- Paved way to improved resiliency, defined policies and guardrails for development teams thanks to Landing Zone setup
- Less friction for pilot development teams thanks to infrastructure automation and streamlined CI/CD pipelines
- Increased speed to market for new business ideas thanks to the shorter time required to set up a fully functional development team
Outcomes
As a result of our cooperation, Axpo achieved several outcomes:
- Sped up development of several business critical applications
- Paved way to improved resiliency, defined policies and guardrails for development teams thanks to Landing Zone setup
- Less friction for pilot development teams thanks to infrastructure automation and streamlined CI/CD pipelines
- Increased speed to market for new business ideas thanks to the shorter time required to set up a fully functional development team
Right people are the key
Some newly formed product teams required senior and technology leadership skills in software development and cloud engineering. Therefore, after analyzing the needs, Semantive supported Axpo with the best experts who agilely started working with the teams taking the lead.
- Support of the structural transformation and supplement cloud engineering experience
- Critical legacy application re-architected and deployed
When automation supports growth
As the complexity and scale of the infrastructure grew, manual management processes became more laborious and time-consuming, and the initial ease and flexibility of manual GCP cloud management also became labor-intensive.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to streamline infrastructure provisioning and management
- Established a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to automate software delivery processes
- Designed Landing Zone
What’s next?
Semantive’s experts are still part of the Axpo team and support their development. Both in their daily technical and project work, and leadership.
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