Cole-Parmer
Antylia Scientific's Cole-Parmer brand had operated on the same eCommerce platform for a decade. With fragmented integrations, security vulnerabilities, and no path to AI readiness, they needed an architectural verdict — fast. Cloud Nerd delivered in six weeks.
Engagement at a glance
Optimizely
Bloomreach
Authorize.net
New Relic
Google Analytics 4Kickoff to final executive readout
Evaluated: stay on Optimizely 3.7, upgrade to 4.7, or re-platform to commercetools
US, UK, Canada, India, and China — all in scope
Inventoried and assessed for each platform path
Cole-Parmer's eCommerce platform — running Optimizely 3.7 — was approximately ten years old. The version was unsupported, had no hot fixes, contained Flash Admin security vulnerabilities, and offered no API surface for future integrations or AI enablement. With five regional domains and eight active integrations, any platform decision had significant complexity and business continuity implications.
Cloud Nerd ran a structured three-phase assessment: current state documentation of the full platform and integration landscape, structured evaluation of three platform paths (stay on 3.7, upgrade to Optimizely 4.7, or re-platform to commercetools), and a final recommendation with a phased migration roadmap. Approximately twelve stakeholders across IT, eCommerce, UX, legal, and regional leadership were engaged.
Cole-Parmer received a clear, risk-adjusted platform recommendation with a documented current-state architecture, integration inventory, platform trade-off analysis, and a phased implementation proposal — giving Antylia Scientific's leadership the evidence to make a high-stakes technology decision confidently.
Optimizely 3.7 was no longer receiving hot fixes and had known Flash Admin security vulnerabilities. Staying on the current version posed growing compliance and data security risk across five regional domains.
Optimizely 3.7 offered no API surface. Any custom integration work would be throwaway code that couldn't survive a platform upgrade, making the current stack a barrier to both AI enablement and third-party connectivity.
Active integrations with Bloomreach, Vertex, Authorize.net, PowerReviews, OneTrust, and New Relic all needed to be assessed for compatibility under each platform path — a full rebuild would eliminate all of them, an upgrade could preserve most.
Cloud Nerd inventoried the complete platform and integration landscape, reviewed existing architecture documentation, and conducted discovery sessions with approximately twelve stakeholders.
Cloud Nerd evaluated all three platform paths — stay, upgrade, re-platform — assessing integration compatibility, migration complexity, timeline, risk, and AI readiness for each.
Cloud Nerd delivered the target-state architecture recommendation, phased migration roadmap, and executive readout to Antylia Scientific leadership.
Kickoff to executive readout — decision-ready artifacts delivered
Platform paths fully evaluated with risk, cost, and compatibility analysis
All inventoried and assessed for compatibility under each path
Phased migration roadmap with team structure delivered to leadership
What's next
Cole-Parmer and Antylia Scientific are moving into implementation based on the recommended platform path, with Cloud Nerd positioned to lead the migration across all five regional domains.
Technologies in this engagement
Optimizely
Bloomreach
Authorize.net
New Relic
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