Sustainable, innovation-driven agribusiness.
Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) plays a key role in supporting around 5 million rural producers and in advancing agribusiness across the country.
Its work covers many areas of agriculture—such as supply, storage, distribution, and crop transportation—as well as promoting food security for Brazil’s population and for food products destined for export.
MAPA also aims to bring technology into the agriculture sector in a sustainable way, helping drive long-term development in this area.
THE CHALLENGE
Gaps in MAPA’s IT infrastructure created major challenges in carrying out essential work for the public. That led to the need to outsource much of IT management, since outdated systems weren’t meeting the agency’s needs.
EDS’s mission was to design a new solution to address issues tied to risk management—such as a lack of risk governance, inefficient processes and workflows, and a shortage of qualified in-house IT teams.
Modernizing and migrating MAPA’s systems to a multicloud environment is part of the Agro Action Plan for 2021–2024.
The plan includes improving IT governance and management, enhancing MAPA’s public service delivery, expanding analytics capacity in rural areas, integrating data and processes, and simplifying communication between the agency and citizens.
One of the systems that needed to be updated was the Integrated Electronic System (SEI), which manages and tracks administrative, technical, and operational processes related to the agency’s activities.
SEI handles around 350 filings per day and has more than 50,000 registered external users.
THE SOLUTION
The solution delivered for MAPA included migrating more than 20TB of data to the cloud, following a platform-and-rearchitect approach, with support from EDS. The team focused on adapting the technology to people’s needs—moving from an Oracle database to MySQL, a cloud-native technology— which reduced costs and increased efficiency.
The project covered the migration of 104 instances, cloud resource management, technical support, monitoring, and rolling out containerized environments with Kubernetes.
The environment transition was carefully planned to prevent downtime and data loss, ensuring a secure, scalable infrastructure.
In addition, training was provided for MAPA’s IT professionals, helping the team get the most out of hybrid cloud resources.
For SEI specifically, this initiative led to a significant drop in user complaints, culminating in a successful migration to the public cloud.
THE RESULTS
SEI with simpler, more secure accessMoving MAPA’s Integrated Electronic System (SEI) to the cloud made it easier for citizens to access government information, while also improving speed and security in how the agency processes cases.
35% fewer carbon emissionsWith the platform migration, MAPA was able to save tons of paper by shifting processes to digital—cutting carbon emissions by about 35%.
Migrating MAPA’s platforms to the cloud made it possible to fully take advantage of cloud elasticity—quickly and easily scaling resources up or down, without interruptions.
More data for better strategyWith hybrid cloud scalability, systems can now store and manage an even larger volume of data—supporting the development of new strategies for programs like fighting deforestation.
With newer, more streamlined platforms, access to information for citizens—and the relationship between MAPA and rural communities—has improved, making it easier to find and share data.