The Challenge: When Growth Outpaces Architecture
FinQuery serves over 8,000 organizations worldwide, providing essential visibility into financial contracts and lease accounting. As its customer base expanded, the platform’s ten-year-old codebase began to show its age.
The core issues were clear:
- Crippling Performance Delays: A rigid, monolithic system struggled with data-heavy operations. Some user tasks timed out or took more than 60 minutes, creating a frustrating user experience.
- Slow Development Cycles: A lack of robust test automation meant quality assurance was a manual, time-consuming process that slowed down release velocity.
- Rising Operational Costs: Inefficient architecture led to unnecessarily high AWS EC2 costs, impacting the company’s bottom line.
FinQuery was caught in a difficult position. It needed to innovate to stay ahead, but its legacy systems were holding it back. A complete overhaul was necessary, but it had to be executed without interrupting ongoing business operations and customer commitments.
The Solution: A Multi-Faceted Modernization Strategy
KMS Technology implemented a comprehensive plan to resolve FinQuery’s technical debt, enhance platform performance, and build a foundation for future scalability. This wasn’t about a simple lift-and-shift; it was a strategic transformation executed with precision.
Phase 1: Tackling Technical Debt and Optimizing Data
The first step was to get a clear picture of the existing codebase.
- Code Scanning: The KMS team conducted a full open-source code scan to identify and systematically resolve accumulated technical debt. This initial cleanup laid the groundwork for all future enhancements.
- Database Migration: Next, the team migrated 350 GB of production data from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. This move not only compressed the data but also delivered a massive boost in query performance. The impact was immediate: user tasks that previously took an hour were now completed in just minutes.
Phase 2: Re-Architecting for Speed and Scalability
With the data optimized, the focus shifted to the core architecture. The monolithic structure was the primary bottleneck preventing faster, more reliable deployments.
- Microservices Transformation: KMS re-architected the legacy codebase into a modern microservices architecture. Decoupling services allowed FinQuery’s development teams to work on individual components independently, drastically shortening iteration cycles and enabling smoother, more frequent deployments.
- Building a Test Automation Framework: To eliminate the QA bottleneck, our team built a robust automation test framework from the ground up. This initiative increased automated test coverage to 24.1% of all scenarios, which significantly improved release confidence and freed up the QA team to focus on more complex, high-value testing.
Phase 3: Delivering New Capabilities for Future Growth
The modernized platform wasn’t just faster—it was also more powerful. KMS developed a new, game-changing feature that allowed users to view financial data from any point in time. This enhancement expanded the platform’s capacity to handle an additional 2 billion documents and multiple terabytes of data without sacrificing the newfound speed and stability.
As a technology leader at FinQuery noted, “KMS helped us reconcile our technical debt and scale to the needs of end users without disrupting our release cycles. We trust the KMS team to work independently on modules of our software and deliver excellent results every time.”
The Outcome: Primed for Market Leadership and Innovation
The partnership delivered transformative business results that extended far beyond just fixing technical issues. By modernizing its core platform, FinQuery unlocked new levels of operational efficiency and innovation potential.
The key outcomes include:
- Accelerated Delivery Cycles: With microservices and robust test automation, FinQuery now operates on efficient two-month delivery cycles, allowing it to bring new features to market faster than ever before.
- Dramatically Improved Performance: Tasks that once took an hour are now executed in minutes, enhancing user satisfaction and platform reliability.
- Reduced Infrastructure Costs: The migration to a more efficient database and architecture significantly lowered operational expenses.
Ultimately, this strategic modernization project did more than just solve immediate challenges. It equipped FinQuery with a scalable, resilient, and high-performing technology foundation. The company is now perfectly positioned to scale its operations confidently, innovate freely, and continue its trajectory as a dominant force in the FinTech market. With its systems primed for future growth, FinQuery can focus on what it does best: delivering exceptional value to its global customer base.
“KMS helped us reconcile our technical debt and scale to the needs of end users without disrupting our release cycles. We trust the KMS team to work independently on modules of our software and deliver excellent results every time.”
— Technology Leader, FinQuery