For legal cannabis producers and suppliers, compliance is the difference between blossoming your business and losing your license. Governing bodies closely regulate every stage of the cannabis industry, from the greenhouse to the end retailer. Ample Organics provides the tech infrastructure to help cannabis companies meet compliance. In essence, we give complete visibility into the entire supply chain of any cannabis product they produce.

We started as a medical marijuana software platform in Toronto in 2014. When recreational marijuana became legal in October 2018, our business boomed. Everyone jumped on the cannabis train, and many of them became our clients. Today, about 70% of the Canadian market, including some of Canada’s largest licensed producers, run on our seed-to-sale software platform to track and report every stage of production and sales.

But managing such a wide-ranging and dynamic service isn’t easy. Developing and deploying new features and functionality can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. And we face unique challenges around data residency, as, by law, Canadian cannabis companies have to house all client data within the national borders — which limits our options for data centers and service partners.

To comply with regulations and continue to meet the business needs of our customers and our own company, we needed to rethink the way we develop and deploy features and tools, as well as the underlying IT infrastructure to support it.

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