Application Modernization Delivers 30% Faster Performance for a Business Intelligence Provider

Arc Network provides critical news, data, analysis, marketing solutions, and events for legal professionals. The organization needed a partner to develop, enhance, support, and optimize its mission-critical websites and applications. This included modernizing key applications onto a layered architecture, building a lead prospecting tool with advanced filtering, maintaining websites with fast search, and developing a market directory application.

Synoptek provided application modernization along with web development, enhancement, support, and maintenance services across Arc Network’s website portfolio, re-architecting core applications, upgrading legacy data pipelines, and building new lead prospecting and market directory tools.

• Re-architected EINFinder onto a modern layered architecture (Web API, Business Logic, Data Access, Infrastructure) on a supported tech stack, and built a new, dedicated Small Group Markets (SGM) application with an Angular frontend.
• Upgraded SSIS packages to SSDT 2012/2025, replacing legacy third-party tools with in-house Script Tasks and running CSV and Data Flow processing in parallel for a faster, more stable data cycle.
• Developed an Apache Solr-powered lead prospecting tool with dashboards, advanced search, and exports, a market directory application for listings and CMS management, and a responsive Drupal 6 website with custom member and content modules.

The modernization initiative delivered faster, more reliable applications and new revenue-generating tools across Arc Network’s website portfolio.

• EINFinder: 30% faster performance, improved security, and a scalable foundation for future features.
• Small Group Markets: A dedicated, modular application managing SGM data independently of the broader system.
• SSIS Packages: ~35% faster data processing with reduced dependency on unsupported tools.
• Lead Prospecting Tool: Apache Solr-powered search with plan scorecards, red flags, and custom exports.
• Responsive Experience: A mobile- and tablet-ready site supporting iOS 5, 6, and 7.