Serverless Application for Super-Pharm

About Super-Pharm.

Super-Pharm is the largest pharmacy chain store in Israel, which is operated by franchisees. Since opening its first store in 1978, the company has grown to include 280 stores nationwide, with overseas branches in Poland.
Super-Pharm is building a new integration layer between drugstores and medical institutions. The project aims to provide the endpoint for securely and productively pushing highly sensitive data to Super-Pharm facilities.

Challenges

Super-Pharm had several forms and images that should be sent to and processed. The maximum amount of data to be sent was limited to 5MB, due to their document system being on-premises. With 250 locations and an immense amount of documents, this posed a big challenge.

“Working with CloudZone enabled us to launch a serverless solution architecture that meets our unique needs while still meeting this project’s KPIs. Since this launch, we’ve seen our TCO drop by 65%! Thanks to CloudZone, we’re confident that our customers’ highly sensitive data is received and processed securely.”

Nir Ben-Zion, IT & Cloud Director @Super-Pharm:

The Solution

To overcome the challenge, CloudZone provided Super-Pharm with a serverless solution architecture, allowing staff members across all 250 locations to upload documents and increase efficiency quickly.

CloudZone implemented an API gateway that provided an AWS environment with an SSL certificate installed. The Lambda functions process the received JSON documents and place the files into a specified S3 bucket, which will be taken by Super-Pharm on-premise server via SQS queue.

The Results

Our designed solution enabled Super-Pharm to launch the system while meeting the project’s KPIs. Since we designed the solution as a serverless application, the TCO was reduced by 65% compared to equivalent server-based solutions.