The client’s sales portal had security issues with respect to user logins and incorporated technology making it a security risk. Their demo portal was a web application where sales representatives and Business Partners could log in to book demo resources for showing their product capabilities to potential customers.

Key Challenges

• Technology upgrade – the client wanted to upgrade the technology stack to use a more modern technology stack. The demo portal was also running on a non-standard production environment that needed to be ported to new infrastructure.
• User management – users had to be manually added into the portal database to gain access. This was causing additional man-hours to be invested in managing users.
• Content Management – Content across the portal was not easily editable. This was causing issues where sales representatives were not having all the data in hand.
• Access management – there was minimal support for RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) on the legacy portal exposing content to unauthorized users.
• Lab management – multiple users couldn’t access the lab servers without booking their slots. This caused delays in customer demos which potentially ended up in losing leads.

Goals

• Modernize the application in line with microservices architecture.
• Faster deployment of the services enabling future scalability.
• SSO integration for better user and access management.
• Integration with LDAP for better demo resource Management.
• Real-time communication with the end-users.
• CI/CD set up for minimal downtime during production deployments.