Case Study: Gallagher Communication achieves scalable, HIPAA-compliant security and global growth with Google Cloud Platform

Gallagher Communication Security and growth on Google Cloud Platform

Gallagher Communication, the UK‑based internal communications unit of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., builds bespoke employee‑engagement apps for clients such as IBM and Nike. Faced with securing sensitive personal and financial data for tens of thousands of users while cutting latency, consolidating a fragmented codebase across 20 systems, simplifying maintenance of many custom platforms, and handling peak demand quickly, the company needed a scalable, compliant infrastructure.

By moving to Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore and Cloud Dataflow), Gallagher centralized code and assets, gained automatic encryption at rest and HIPAA‑capable compliance, and enabled rapid, global instance provisioning. Deployments that once took weeks now spin up in seconds, daily data processing dropped from six hours to under three minutes, and the firm has expanded into the US, China, India and Europe while maintaining high availability and security.

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Drew Munn

Head of Digital