Beta Health
Agile Consulting & Systems Modernization
About Beta HealthBeta Health Association is a Denver, Colorado based company which has specialized in both group voluntary (employee paid) and contributory (employer paid) dental, vision, life and disability products since 1990. They also have a wide selection of national individual dental and vision plan products.
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Challenges
When Beta Health found Latitude 40, they were facing significant challenges that were hindering their progress and growth:
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Outdated Systems: Their existing .NET systems were outdated and struggled to support their expanding operations, leading to inefficiencies and limitations. Simple changes to the applications were also expensive and time-consuming to make.
Security Vulnerabilities: The legacy system had numerous security vulnerabilities, putting sensitive data at risk and increasing the potential for breaches. Performance Issues: The system was plagued with bugs and redundant code, causing slow performance and frequent disruptions. |
On-Premises Limitations: Operating from an on-premises environment limited their scalability and flexibility, making it difficult to adapt to changing needs.
Inefficient Software Delivery: The lack of continuous delivery and integration pipelines resulted in a slow and unreliable software delivery process. 3rd Party Needs: They had no CRM and their payment processor was expensive and required a lot of manual work to stay operational. |
Solution
Latitude 40 collaborated with Beta Health to modernize their technology and support their ambitious growth goals. They formed an agile team consisting of Latitude 40 personnel mixed with existing Beta developers. In addition to the development that needed to be done, a side goal was to help Beta’s developers improve their skillsets in more modern languages, design concepts, and agile practices. Together, they accomplished the following:
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Implemented DevOps: Established continuous delivery and integration pipelines to streamline software delivery and make the process smoother and more reliable.
Enhanced Security: Implemented robust security measures and reduced vulnerabilities. Transitioned to the Cloud: Moved Beta Health from an on-premises environment to the cloud, providing greater scalability and flexibility and eliminating the maintenance required for physical hardware. |
Upgraded Legacy Systems: Modernized their outdated .NET systems to better support expanding operations. Fixed numerous bugs, and removed hundreds of thousands of lines of redundant or unused code, improving performance and speeding up future development.
Integrating with new CRM and Payment Processor: Set up a seamless integration with a new HubSpot environment, and helped implement Recurly as a payment processor. |
Along the way, the internal development staff were trained in the agile philosophy and experienced its methodologies first-hand side-by-side with Latitude 40, giving them an improved ability to keep Beta agile moving into the future.
Our Impact
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Improved Security: Security audit scores improved dramatically. All high-priority issues were discovered and mitigated.
Improved Performance: Some operations now perform up to 85% faster and infrastructure can support 3x the traffic. Scalability: Achieved greater scalability through cloud transition. Adjustments to resource utilization now just takes a few clicks unlike before when it would take purchasing or manually upgrading physical servers. Improved Agility: Development initiatives can now be done up to 75% faster allowing for quicker reaction to required change or new opportunities. |
Streamlined Software Delivery: A single delivery used to take up to an hour of manual work and require significant down-time. Now, test environments are updated automatically as code is changing. Production is updated with a few clicks. This saves a lot of time and allows for quicker and more frequent deliveries.
"Thanks to Latitude 40, we've seen remarkable improvements in our efficiency and flexibility. Their innovative approach has truly made us a more agile organization."
Pete Bredemann - Product Strategy
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