Honey Baked Ham Gains Scalability & Increased Security with a Modernized E-Commerce App

The Challenge

Honey Baked Ham needs to modernize aging technology.

The Honey Baked Ham Company was founded in 1957 with an idea that produced what is regarded today as the world’s best ham. The company has stayed within the founder’s family and proudly stands behind each and every product and they are committed to premium quality. Their products have become a staple at holiday dinners and meals served by generations. Honey Baked Ham needed to modernize due to aging technology and the inability to scale, as well as security challenges. The company wanted to design and reshape their online business approach as their E-commerce business grew. They required the flexibility and scalability of a modern application to keep up with seasonal retail surges. The modernization of their E-commerce application is crucial to supporting their business requirements and growth objectives.

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Services

App Innovation

Industries

Retail

Company Size

1,001 - 5,000

The Solution

3CLOUd Reviews Honey Baked Ham’s E-Commerce Application for Configuration and Architecture.

3Cloud began with a Well-Architected Review of Honey Baked Ham’s E-commerce application’s configuration and architecture, so they could gain confidence in the security, scalability and performance of the app. The readout provided observations and recommendations based on the five pillars of Microsoft’s Well-Architected Framework. Based on our review, Honey Baked Ham engaged with 3Cloud to automate the deployment of their E-commerce web app using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployment pipelines. Our team developed IaC for three app environments and created automated DevOps deployment pipelines.

The Results

The modernized environment that 3Cloud created for Honey Baked Ham increased the security and scalability of applications. The automated deployment pipelines we developed with Infrastructure as Code and DevOps allow changes to the web infrastructure to occur in a repeatable, process-driven and automated manner. Most impactful to the company, is the enhanced scalability and increased performance of their E-commerce app empowers them with the ability to keep up with seasonal retail surges and handle growing customer demands. In addition, Honey Baked Ham has piece of mind with robust security in place to protect sensitive information.