Case Study: Express Scripts accelerates app delivery with Cloud Foundry

Express Scripts cuts deployment time from 45 days to 4 hours with Cloud Foundry

Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 pharmacy benefits management firm, faced fierce competition and needed to overhaul its IT systems to rapidly deliver new apps and services. Their challenge was to find a platform that could drive transformation and innovation, work across multiple clouds and programming languages, and be fast, fault-tolerant, and scalable. They partnered with Cloud Foundry to implement its platform.

By adopting Cloud Foundry, Express Scripts streamlined its development process, enabling its developers to work in an agile manner and deliver value much faster. The measurable results were significant: time to deployment shrank from 45 days to just 4 hours. Within a year, they went from zero to over 400 application instances in production and saw developer adoption of the platform increase sevenfold, from 100 to 700 users. Cloud Foundry catalyzed a broader organizational transformation towards a DevOps and product mindset.

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