Rebuilding a Legacy Greenfield Application for a Healthcare Supply Chain Innovator

“Working with the Connective team has been a breath of fresh air.” — CEO, Healthcare Supply Chain Startup

“Connective took the time to truly understand our business and its unique needs. From there, they carefully aligned the right talent and skill sets to build a scalable, adaptable solution fit for the complex and constantly evolving healthcare space. I only wish I had found them sooner.” — CEO, Healthcare Supply Chain Startup

Overview

A healthcare supply chain startup sought a trusted technology partner to rescue and rebuild its core market-facing application—a workflow optimization and PAR management tool intended to streamline operational processes across healthcare delivery networks. After years of stalled development with a previous vendor, escalating platform costs, and no viable path to launch, the company turned to our team to redesign and engineer a scalable version of the product that could successfully reach market.

The client had previously invested heavily with an outsourced development firm that attempted to build the entire product in a large, waterfall-style effort using PowerApps and PowerBI. Despite more than two years of work:

• The platform became fragile, costly to maintain, and non-scalable

• Development velocity stalled with no realistic path to a market-ready release

• Pre-market infrastructure and licensing costs were rapidly consuming startup resources

• The underlying architecture was not suitable for a SaaS business model

• Leadership feared the business would not survive unless a sustainable solution was built quickly

The team needed an urgent pivot—from an overbuilt, brittle prototype to a streamlined, extensible application capable of delivering value immediately while setting the foundation for future growth.

A partner organization provided a new architectural blueprint designed to:

• Support a services-driven launch strategy

• Enable agile, iterative delivery of customer value

• Establish a scalable foundation ready to support a future SaaS business model

• Reduce ongoing maintenance costs and technical risk

• Accelerate the timeline to market to ensure the company’s viability

Our team was selected as the agile development partner to translate this vision into a functional, modernized 2.0 application.

We partnered closely with the client and architectural stakeholders to execute a pragmatic, value-first rebuild:

• Refined and sequenced the feature set for rapid time-to-value

• Focused initial releases on workflows that delivered immediate operational impact

• Established shared product goals, KPIs, and feedback loops with end users

• Built the core PAR management application on a modern, scalable stack (React Native, PostgreSQL, Azure)

• Delivered incremental, testable functionality through an agile delivery model

• Introduced engineering best practices enabling sustainable long-term growth

• Collaborated with client operations experts to align functionality with real-world healthcare workflows

• Implemented a future-proofed architecture supporting elasticity, data flexibility, and analytics readiness

• Integrated Elasticsearch for high-performance search and workflow insights

• Ensured the rebuilt platform could evolve into a full SaaS product with minimal rework

By engaging our team, the client rapidly transformed a failing, unsustainable product effort into a viable, scalable application ready for market launch.

• Transitioned from a stalled, high-cost prototype to a production-ready 2.0 application

• Preserved the company’s ability to enter the market and maintain business continuity

• Positioned the organization for future SaaS expansion and new revenue opportunities

• Rebuilt the application on a modern, extensible architecture

• Dramatically reduced maintenance overhead and licensing costs

• Achieved predictable delivery velocity through agile methodology

• Improved system reliability, scalability, and long-term viability

• Strengthened stakeholder confidence through transparent, iterative progress

• Established a product strategy foundation for evolving feature sets

• Enabled faster customer feedback cycles and future roadmap adaptability