Ideagen Case Study

Ideagen helps some of the world’s leading brands in regulated industries improve operational performance, maintain integrity, and avoid unwanted surprises. It does this with software solutions that manage risk, compliance, and safety. More than 2,200 organizations—including BT, the U.K. National Health Service, and BBVA—rely on Ideagen’s solutions.

• Develop a scalable governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) application for large organizations with 20,000 users or more.
• Take advantage of the cloud to assure security, availability, and scalability.
  

• Developed and deployed a cloud-native software-as-a-service product—Coruson—on AWS, using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Relational Database Service, and Amazon DynamoDB.
• Used command query responsibility segregation to separate the read and write concerns of the application, improving real-time data accuracy, and overall application performance.
• Laid the foundation for a constantly evolving platform, with new AWS technologies coming into use as required.
  

• Address larger organizations: With its scalable, cloud-native GRC offering, Ideagen can attract business from big enterprises. For example, it won a deal with the Rail Safety and Standards Board, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the U.K. rail industry, to provide a deployment with the potential for more than 100,000 users.
• Speed time to market: Developers at Ideagen can silently deploy monthly updates to Coruson, ensuring that customers receive the latest and best features with no disruption.
• Deliver an award-winning product: Coruson has been awarded the Environmental Health & Safety Technical Innovation award by analyst firm GRC 20/20.