Case Study: Delivering Modernization and Cloud-First Solutions Across Multiple Verticals

How Group9 and Effectual powered digital transformation across real estate, healthcare, energy, IoT, and higher education organizations through DevOps, security, and cloud-native services

The Challenge

Enterprises across industries—from real estate and manufacturing to higher education and genomics—face a growing need for secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. However, legacy applications, technical debt, manual processes, and compliance mandates present major hurdles to innovation.

From disparate code bases and deployment bottlenecks to strict uptime and security requirements, organizations needed partners who could deliver cloud-first, secure-by-design modernization at scale.

The Group9 + Effectual Solution

Through a strategic partnership, Group9 and Effectual executed a series of customized AWS Cloud and DevOps solutions that modernized infrastructure, enabled real-time analytics, reduced downtime, and drove innovation.

Highlights from Across Industries:

Tricon American Homes – Real Estate

• Automated rental operations across 23,000+ homes

• Created CI/CD pipelines to speed feature delivery

• Integrated AWS S3 for scalable storage and real-time issue monitoring via CloudWatch

Verdant Web Technologies – EH&S Software

• Automated deployments across 10+ web servers and databases

• Migrated to AWS with Elastic Beanstalk for scalable multi-client management

• Reduced hardware costs and improved DevOps velocity

Wingo IoT – Industrial IoT Security & Analytics

• Designed secure AWS architecture with NOC dashboards using Lambda

• Ensured compliance in multi-tenant IoT data environments

• Achieved real-time insights for AI/ML modeling and insurance use cases

Xenon – Energy Sector IoT

• Delivered a working IoT proof-of-concept to track asset protection in homes

• Deployed Amazon Kinesis and Lambda for real-time device communication

• Validated AWS as the foundation for scalable home monitoring technology

GenomeNext – Genomic Informatics

• Built automated deployment pipelines with AWS DevOps tools

• Ensured HIPAA-aligned compliance through architectural best practices

• Enabled full-scale production deployments in any AWS region within minutes

The Results

• 🚀 Increased velocity and uptime across DevOps pipelines

• 🔒 Improved security postures with automated compliance alignment

• 💡 Enabled cross-functional visibility with advanced dashboards and real-time logging

• 🧾 Reduced operational costs and eliminated reliance on outdated on-prem infrastructure

• 📈 Accelerated time-to-market across industries including genomics, IoT, real estate, and environmental health

Conclusion

By combining Group9’s strategic engagement model with Effectual’s AWS expertise, these organizations gained access to powerful cloud-native frameworks that simplified modernization, increased business agility, and strengthened their ability to deliver innovation at scale.