Customer Story | Google Cloud Migration
By adopting a consolidated approach with Google Cloud, the home services company has been able to reduce unnecessary complexity, find cost efficiencies, simplify network management, and minimize potential points of failure.
Seattle-based Porch Group Inc. (Porch) offers a moving concierge service designed to assist homebuyers during the often-overwhelming relocation process. By bridging the gap between homebuyers and essential services, Porch helps consumers make well-informed decisions about the crucial facets of their move, such as insurance, security, TV/internet provisions, home repairs, and home improvements. The company has a roster of more than 29,700 contractors, from home inspectors, real estate agencies, and moving companies to utility providers and warranty companies.
Porch decided to go “all in” on Google Cloud to streamline operations and reduce management overhead, as well as leverage the platform’s innovative integration opportunities such as advanced data analytics and AI-driven insights. But remnant services were undermining efficient operations. This, in turn, posed unnecessary complexities and risks from an information security lens. Porch wanted a streamlined solution with a smaller attack surface, with simplified administration and monitoring needs to minimize these risks. To consolidate and clean up the company’s cloud and security posture, Pythian assisted Porch’s technology teams with the following tasks:
By adopting a consolidated approach with Google Cloud, Porch has been able to reduce unnecessary complexity, find cost efficiencies, simplify network management, and minimize potential points of failure. This includes:
Minimized potential security vulnerabilities, ensuring data and operations are securely managed within a trusted and reliable cloud environment
Additional capacity to modernize their data platform. By paying off its technical debt and migrating data into cloud-native services (using CloudSQL and BigQuery), the company is in a better position to leverage the right data in the right architecture to unlock Generative AI use cases.
Unlocking access to Premium Support, allowing the IT team to get the help they need, when they need it—so they can manage more, with less.
"This project is the start of an ambitious plan to modernize our cloud infrastructure, unlocking capacity to modernize our data platform to cloud-native services. In turn, it facilitates shorter cycle times to put the right data in the right hands for Gen AI applications and use cases.”
Senior Director of Software Engineering, Porch.com
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