Case Study: Sekoia achieves 70% cloud-cost reduction and faster innovation with Microsoft Azure

Software company moves to the cloud to improve elder care

Sekoia is a UK software company that builds cloud-based apps for elder-care facilities to reduce paperwork and help caregivers manage medications, appointments, incidents, and daily tasks. Although Sekoia was born in Microsoft Azure, its original architecture required a separate VM per customer to keep data private, making it costly and hard to scale while tying up the small IT team and slowing feature development.

Sekoia re-architected its platform into microservices on Azure Service Fabric and adopted Azure SQL Database, Blob and Table storage, and Azure Redis Cache. The move cut server count from 100 to 5 and reduced cloud costs by 70%, freed staff from infrastructure maintenance, funded new developer hires, and accelerated innovation—enabling faster feature releases and access to additional Azure services for future enhancements.

Sekoia

Claus Nielsen

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer