IT Infrastructure Optimization

The Story

The State of Minnesota Department of Human Services faced its own urgent dilemma late in the summer of 2013. The federal government had just announced a host of new audit directives for the state’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchange website known as MNSure. The requirements put the state Department of Human Services in a bind. Less than 10 weeks away from launching a revolutionary healthcare website, state officials now had to scramble and pull together an auditing system from scratch or face the political embarrassment of failing to meet federal requirements. Minnesota was one of only 14 states moving to create its own statewide exchange, separate from the federal government site, where residents could analyze, compare, and sign up for health care plans. The state sites were facing just as many glitches and delays as the federal site, drawing highly critical news media coverage and the watchful eye of groups opposed to the newly adopted healthcare law.

What Did Vaske Do

Mapping out a highly complex solution

We credit our depth of knowledge and cutting-edge solutions gained from years of consulting with a wide array of clients. In working toward solutions with the public sector, education, and commercial accounts we have an enhanced advantage in cross pollinating knowledge and experiences. For example, working on the data side of the Patient Protection and ACA helped us garner valuable experience with the Hadoop paradigm shift that was about to hit the industry. With 30 years of insider perspective, Vaske Computer Inc. is a leading expert in designing, architecting, and implementing information technology systems for diverse clients throughout the nation.

Vaske successfully designed, shipped, and implemented three Hadoop multi-node clusters using the Oracle Big Data Appliance used by a third-party audit application and completed testing in just four weeks. “We were in an urgent mode to get it done, and they came up with some great, highly creative solutions that we could implement immediately,” recalls State’s systems engineer.

The Results

“We call it the 28-Day Miracle.” A database manager for the state agency credits the highly successful implementation of a large database system to Vaske. “They laid out for us what the needs were, not only for the big data appliances but what we needed at the immediate moment. They brokered everything, they were instrumental in providing a solution during an urgent situation. They literally saved the day.”

• Successful launch of the State’s Affordable Care Act Implementation
• One of the initial implementations of Oracle’s Big Data Appliance