Overview
A leading provider of discount dental plans partnered with Intuitive to modernize its SaaS application infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Serving over 30 million members nationwide, the client needed a secure, compliant, and scalable network foundation that could support development, integration with on-prem systems, and regulatory demands.
Challenges
The client needed to deploy and manage a SaaS application in a healthcare-regulated environment while ensuring performance and compliance:
- Segregated development, testing, and staging environments for software lifecycle management
- Strict security controls to safeguard sensitive healthcare data
- Seamless, low-latency integration between Azure workloads and on-premises systems
- Scalable design to accommodate user growth and new business units
Solution
Intuitive designed and implemented a hub-and-spoke Azure Virtual Network (VNet) topology with ExpressRoute connectivity, providing a secure, scalable, and centralized framework:
- Built a core hub VNet hosting Azure Firewall, Virtual Network Gateway, and monitoring tools
- Deployed spoke VNets for production, pre-production, staging, and transit to isolate workloads and improve compliance
- Established ExpressRoute for dedicated, low-latency connectivity to on-prem datacenters, with VPN configured as a failover
- Defined networking requirements and subnet segmentation to support scalability, security, and regulatory compliance
Impact
The transformation delivered a modern Azure networking foundation that improved efficiency, scalability, and compliance:
- Enhanced security posture with centralized firewall controls aligned to healthcare regulations
- Improved scalability to support increasing user loads and application expansion
- Streamlined development lifecycle through isolated environments for testing and staging
- Seamless hybrid connectivity between Azure and on-premises systems with ExpressRoute
