Pet care leader turns monolithic app into a global distributed solution on Azure Challenge: VCA, a subsidiary of Mars Petcare, is one of the largest pet healthcare companies in the United States. It wanted to streamline referrals across more than 800 of its veterinary hospitals. VCA also recognized the need to improve its practice management software (PMS) to resolve duplication and communication issues in the system. Solution: VCA turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner CloudIQ Technologies, which created a cloud-native application on Azure that solved the messy referrals problem. The resulting application, Automated Referral Function (ARF), uses containerized microservices, three data repositories, and serverless functions to eliminate duplication and to automate communicat

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