Case Study: Smart Building Platforms achieves scalable AWS modernisation with Ficode

Smart Building Platforms reduces manual recovery by 70% to 80% with Ficode

Ficode partnered with Smart Building Platforms, a UK-based smart-building technology provider, to address significant operational challenges. The client's legacy platform, which managed critical building operations, was running on manually operated servers. This led to slow, error-prone deployments, high operational risk, and an inability to scale. A major hurdle was the need to migrate over 30 services without downtime while unifying nine different technology stacks and accommodating a specific Windows-native component.

Ficode modernized the platform by migrating it to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and implementing a cloud-native architecture powered by Amazon EKS. The solution containerized all services, used GitOps for automated deployments, and established a single, secure entry point routing traffic to over 30 backend services. The results were substantial: deployments became 60% faster and more repeatable, manual recovery dependency was reduced by 70-80%, and the platform was given a scalable foundation to support 2-3x business growth. Ficode's solution significantly improved the platform's security, reliability, and operational efficiency.