ERP deployments went from 5 hours to 5 minutes, and CI/CD costs dropped from $500 to $10 a year
St. John’s University was manually managing ERP customization deployments. Presidio built a fully-automated CI/CD pipeline on AWS that cut deployment time to five minutes and reduced pipeline costs to $10 a year.
THE OUTCOME
St. John’s University was manually managing ERP customization deployments, a process taking up to five hours per deployment, running on infrastructure costing $500 a year just to operate. Presidio built a fully automated CI/CD pipeline on AWS that cut deployment time to five minutes and reduced pipeline costs to $10 a year.
HOW THEY GOT THERE
Presidio migrated SJU’s ERP extension code into CodeCommit repositories with role-based IAM permissions. CodeBuild packages and deploys automatically on each commit. CodePipeline orchestrates the full workflow across dev, QA, and production, with a manual approval gate before production. Smoke tests run as part of the build. Blue-green deployment support means rollbacks are fast and low-risk.
WHY IT WORKED
SJU was paying in time and money to maintain infrastructure AWS makes available as a managed service. Replacing self-hosted Jenkins with native AWS tooling cut costs and removed an entire category of maintenance burden. Deployments that required hours of manual effort now run automatically, with human oversight preserved exactly where it matters: the approval gate before production.