Global Enterprise System for Ocular Transplants
The One World Site Alliance application posed the need to serve a global audience – MercuryWorks developed a stable .NET platform to meet the need
The Overview
The Lion’s Eye Institute for Transplant & Research is a non-profit leader in the field of recovery, preparation, banking, and distribution of ocular tissue for transplant. With an ever-growing workload, Lion’s Eye wanted to modernize and integrate disparate systems to streamline their workload while improving the experience for their international customer base.
The
Challenge
To combine two distinct distribution systems serving domestic and international markets. While the two legacy systems have unique features and independent data stores, the resulting combined system had to both work seamlessly as a unified system AND integrate with an enterprise clinical database platform.
The
Solution
A radically reimagined cloud-based inventory and distribution platform refactored to utilize a modernized UI and robust back end. The new system is hosted in a high-availability Azure configuration with supporting data centers distributed across multiple global data centers to maximize uptime and response time to their global audience.
The
Results
The updated system eliminates manual data entry, reduces overhead of managing multiple systems and improves surgeon’s interfaces. In addition to significantly improved uptime, the new OWSA system provides a highly usable interface across desktop, tablet and phone.
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"Mercury ramped up in our (very complicated) business domain and constructed a world-class system and were able to successfully meet the needs of several independent departments.
Arthur Kurz
CMO, Lion’s Eye Institute for Transplant & Research
Behind The Curtain
Core Technology
.NET Framework
Microsoft’s .NET Framework was implemented as the system’s overall and server-side framework for API endpoints including secure interchange, business logic execution and is coupled with OpenAPI/Swagger for service tier documentation.
SQL Server
Provides a robust data storehouse and query platform to store all enterprise data, marshal data for integration and provide a source to the app’s API tier. In-cloud SQL Server was used to provide instant scalability and rapid querying.
Microsoft Azure
Provides database storage, web app, authentication and web services. Azure provides an ideal solution for back end mobile applications with a multi-data center mixed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud solution.
