Somic — Seventeen ERP Environments Managed on Azure

The challenge

Somic ran a single production environment on Azure and needed to add one for each end client in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector, without each onboarding becoming a separate project.

The solution

Arcetec manages the platform and adds each new environment to the service inventory: in twelve months they went from one to seventeen. Consumption is billed as a Microsoft partner, on a single invoice in Colombian pesos at the day's exchange rate (TRM).

How do operations hold up as the number of environments grows?

When a software company needs to add a production environment for each end client, every onboarding can turn into a new project with its own negotiation and its own rollout. In Somic's case, Arcetec's solution avoids that effect: the platform is managed as a service and each new environment is added to its inventory.

This approach allows growth to happen in an orderly way. Going from one to seventeen environments in twelve months was possible because the contract was not reopened with each addition, and because consolidated billing in pesos at the day's TRM simplifies financial tracking of the service.

For your company, the lesson is that cloud scalability depends as much on the operating model as on the infrastructure. Having someone responsible for managing the platform and maintaining a replicated architecture gives your organization the peace of mind to grow without multiplying complexity.

Technologies used

• Microsoft Azure
• Windows Server

Results

• 17 Production environments — Managed by Arcetec
• 12 months From one to seventeen — Without reopening the contract for each addition