The customer’s PowerFAIDS app is used by 700+ US higher education institutions to automate financial aid processing for millions of students. To enhance scalability, security, and compliance, the organization sought to modernize its Windows-based system into a cloud-native SaaS solution on AWS.
Hitachi Digital Services partnered with the organization to design, develop, and deploy PowerFAIDS Cloud. We assessed 1.3M lines of legacy code, defined an optimized architecture, and implemented a microservices-based SaaS solution leveraging 20+ AWS services, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
The SaaS solution enhances efficiency, security, and accessibility for thousands of financial aid officers and millions of students. With a modern UI and serverless architecture, it improves performance and reduces costs. Since 2018:
- 100+ business processes delivered
- 46 complex features developed
- 19+ releases, 8,000+ user stories
- 15 microservices, 25+ cloud design patterns
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Partner: Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud services, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers – including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises and leading government agencies – are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. AWS has the most extensive global cloud infrastructure. The AWS Region and Availability Zone model has been recognized by Gartner as the recommended approach for running enterprise applications that require high availability.
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