A winning strategy: How WinWire modernized a legal app with Azure

October 15, 2024

If a company has been in business for almost 20 years, there's a good chance they’re not relying on the same technology they started out with in year one. Because if they were, there's an even better chance they wouldn't be in business anymore. From his 30 years of experience in technology management, Ashu Goel knew firsthand that businesses must embrace digital transformation to stay agile, secure, and competitive. That's the notion that led him to found WinWire in 2007, and it's been the foundation of the company's success ever since.

With Microsoft Azure at the heart of their work, WinWire delivers cloud, app modernization, data, and generative AI solutions to keep their customers at the forefront of innovation. And to consistently deliver those solutions at a high level, they've honed their own technical capabilities and expertise through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, attaining Solutions Partner designations for Data & AI (Azure), Digital & App Innovation (Azure), and Infrastructure (Azure), and earning specializations in Infra and Database Migration to Azure and Migrate Enterprise Applications to Azure.

WinWire's dedication to both their craft and customers won them the 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for Modernizing Applications in the Azure category, making them a two-time winner and a four-time finalist. "It's an honor to once again be named a winner and a finalist in multiple categories of the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards," said Ashu Goel, CEO of WinWire. "As a Microsoft partner for more than 17 years, we have a long history of collaborating to help customers leverage the power of Azure to modernize their applications, enhance operational efficiency, and drive growth."

Time to modernize the monolith

A large part of WinWire's work is leading digital transformations for enterprises across healthcare, software, retail, and manufacturing with their proven modernization strategy. For one of their customers, Relativity, that strategy changed the trajectory of their business.

Founded in 2001, Relativity has solidified their position as a leader in the legal technology space with over 350,000 users in legal, financial services, and government organizations across more than 40 countries. When they launched their flagship product, RelativityOne, in 2018, the solution quickly became the fastest-growing product in the company’s history. The cloud solution, built with AI, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. Given the sensitivity of the data they work with, Relativity knew that scaling the product would require an even more secure and robust foundation.

"The core of our business is legal data," said Keith Carlson, Chief Technology Officer at Relativity. "To best support customers with their data challenges, Relativity needed to ensure that our cloud ecosystem was increasingly agile, secure, and equipped to handle our rapidly growing demand."

An agile, secure, and scalable application

With WinWire's support in modernizing their .NET framework and migrating pipelines to GitHub, Relativity saved 150% on IT costs, and this enabled RelativityOne to scale data to 19 petabytes. Now they can develop and deploy application features with more speed and agility. "I see a continuous increase in velocity through every sprint within the WinWire team," said Krishna Aerabati, Director of Software Engineering at Relativity. "With every effort, we are now accelerating the onboarding of our customers from the on-premises Relativity Server to the cloud-based RelativityOne."

But above all, they've strengthened the foundation for the product to support their customers and scale securely. "This tailored application modernization approach has resulted in shorter lead times, quicker implementation of security frameworks, and a better and more secure customer experience," said Carlson.

In the next 20 years, when technology has evolved and advanced even further, WinWire's strategy probably will, too. But one thing that's sure to remain constant: their commitment to helping customers navigate—and thrive on—their digital transformation journeys.