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About Emaar Problem Statement
Retail giant in the
Middle East Emaar Properties, one of the largest retail conglomerate in Middle East has
Innovation got a strong army of developers in house and has multiple applications made
enthusiasts for both their customers as well as internal users. The software development
7000+ Employees lifecycle in its current practice was not agile, and the frameworks and
Mature IT technologies in use did not deliver the software development velocity
customer with demanded by the business.
revenue
generating What was needed: On-board, Automate and Optimize the CI/CD practices
technology using Azure DevOps.
products
Solution
End users
Emaar's Being a strong advocate of bottom-up transformation Adfolks closely worked
developers and with EMAAR’s development teams. Adfolks reviewed their existing toolchain
Application and planned for DevOps transformation. We initiated the journey with
Managers. migrating on-prem TFS to Azure DevOps, followed by integration with
multiple out-of-the box open source tools like SonarQube and Appium in
Jump to order to perform code quality tests. The blockchain-based loyalty application
consisted of 35 microservices and used TeamCity as their CI/CD toolchain on
Problem statment Azure Kubernetes Engine.Also focused on having Helm repos for the
applications to make sure single package for each microservices gurranting
Solution them easy deploymnet strategies. Adfolks automated the migrations of the
microservices.
Desired state
Desired state
Highlighted features
of Afolks delivery 1

Adfolks delivery team

Quicker go to market

With a fully integrated Azure DevOps solution with security practices, time
to market was reduced from days to hours. App releases that used to take
at least 3-4 days for approvals and optimizations, now were done in less
than 3-4 hours.

2
Handholding for Emaar Development team

Adfolks focused on the internal developers time and availability to adapt,
and ensured minimal learning curve without compromising the end result.

3
Introduction of PaaS and Cloud native solutions

A lesser focus on Kubernetes platform maintenance by using Kubernetes
PaaS offering from Azure (AKS) and faster deployment due to integration
with Azure DevOps.

4
Integration with multiple dev teams

Implementing multiple deployment and release stratgies with cloud-
native tools expediting their DevOps/Release cycles

Highlights feature of Adfolks delivery

With a fully integrated Azure DevOps solution with security practices, time to
market was reduced from days to hours. App releases
Adfolks focused on the internal developers time and availability to adapt, and
ensured minimal learning curve without compromising the end result.
A lesser focus on Kubernetes platform maintenance by using Kubernetes PaaS
offering from Azure (AKS) and faster deployment due to integration with Azure
DevOps.
Implementing multiple deployment and release stratgies with cloud-native tools
expediting their DevOps/Release cycles

Adfolks delivery team

Certified DevOps Experts
Azure Certified DevOps Architects & Engineers with
experience in creating and communicating an
organisational deployment.

Minimal disruption to existing code
Experience of re-using any existing deployment & test
harnesses.

Enterprise experience
Experience of working within environments with
complex hierarchical decision making structures and
where multiple stakeholders have differing levels of
digital awareness.

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