Application Development Migration: From Legacy Integrations to Scalable Architecture
Objective
A healthcare technology provided needed to replace its Salesforce-dependent integration framework with a scalable, event-driven architecture within its new service portal.
Their mission-critical integrations and robotic process automation (RPA) workflows, supporting 40 agencies processing approximately 16,000–17,000+ records daily, needed to be migrated while maintaining uninterrupted operations.
The initiative focused on: Migrating RPA integrations with full functional parity, enabling scalable, real-time communication using GCP Pub/Sub and Azure Service Bus, maintaining uninterrupted operations through a dual-environment transition model, and establishing a repeatable migration strategy for onboarding agencies.
Challenge
The migration effort required transforming a deeply embedded Salesforce ecosystem without disrupting daily operations at scale. The legacy solution had been in place and processing at scale for over 5 years.
Key challenges included:
- RPA workflows were tightly integrated with Salesforce APIs, requiring precise replication
- Systems supported 40+ agencies with significant daily processing, leaving little room for disruption
- Differences in schema and data structures required careful translation and validation
- Project timelines evolved, requiring rapid adaptation and re-baselining
- Migration spanned architecture, infrastructure, and phased agency onboarding
Solution
NLP Logix delivered a structured, multi-phase approach aligned to discovery insights and a scalable architecture strategy.
- Discovery & Migration Strategy: This foundation ensured alignment across stakeholders and reduced downstream risk.
- Architecture Modernization: Replaced Salesforce APIs with new service portal’s native integrations, implemented event-driven communication using Azure Service Bus and GCP Pub/Sub, establishing secure connectivity across cloud environments, and introduced additional monitoring capabilities, including logging, health dashboards, and error handling.
- Parallel Workflow Implementation: Replicated RPA workflows within the new service provider while maintaining Salesforce operations, validated data translation and system interoperability, and ensured feature parity prior to migration.
- Phased Agency Migration: Began with lower-volume agencies to refine process and validate stability, scaled migration across 40 agencies using a repeatable model, and maintained data integrity and processing continuity throughout.
- Program Governance & Execution: Defined communication cadences for executive, project, and technical stakeholders, monitored progress, risks, and dependencies continuously, and enabled rapid issue resolution through cross-functional coordination.
Results
The portal migration successfully delivered a scalable, future-ready platform while maintaining business continuity across a high-volume operational environment.
- 40 agencies successfully migrated using a phased, low-risk approach
- 16,000–17,000 average daily records sustained during transition with no major service disruption
- Modern, event-driven architecture deployed across cloud environments
- Improved system scalability and flexibility for future growth
- Enhanced monitoring and reliability through integrated logging and health dashboards
- Repeatable migration framework established for future onboarding and expansion
Tech Stack
- C#/.NET
- Azure Functions
- Azure Service Bus
- GCP Pub/Sub
- Avro Schema Validation
- Terraform/HCL