APIS IT Modernizes with Adriatic Region’s First Red Hat OpenShift Implementation

APIS IT

APIS IT is one of the leading Croatian ICT companies. The Agency was founded at the end of 2005 by the contract between the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb in order to, based on the positive experience of the Municipal Data City Processing Center GZAOP, perform tasks of development and maintenance of the crucial information systems of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Zagreb and to develop applicative services and keep the necessary information databases what is the basis for the modern functioning of the electronically supported Government.

Modernize a legacy IT to enhance public services

APIS IT works with government ministries, public administration bodies, and utility providers across the Republic of Croatia to plan for and provide critical IT infrastructure. To support this work and ensure compliance with EU regulations, APIS IT realized it needed to modernize its legacy systems. It sought to create a single, centralized platform to connect its modern technology with its diverse existing infrastructure, some of which included older frameworks and programming languages.

Migrate applications to a diverse IT environment

Using Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, APIS IT migrated 2 decades of legacy systems it had adopted over the past 20 years—including enterprise JavaTM and Microsoft .NET frameworks—to a centralized open-source platform to ease integration and avoid vendor lock-in. It now runs 80+ production projects on OpenShift, with plans to migrate an additional 200+ Java applications and adopt both Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes.

• [Efficiency Improvement - Issue Response]
  

  Standardizing application life cycle management with Red Hat OpenShift has helped APIS IT’s teams adopt a responsive, efficient DevOps work approach.

• [Product Improvement - User Experience]
  

  Formerly isolated developers and operations staff can now collaborate in a consistent infrastructure environment, with user-friendly dashboards that provide transparent visibility into projects.