Improved cloud costs using Google Kubernetes Engine Multitenancy
Efficient updates to modular services using Google Kubernetes Engine
Cleaner and more resilient integrations using Pub/Sub messaging
Efficient switch to microservices with Cloud SQL
Built trust using Google’s security and global reach
With Google Cloud, Nomadis scales human logistics globally, boosting efficiency, automation, and trust.
With Google Cloud, Nomadis scales human logistics globally, boosting efficiency, automation, and trust.
When thousands of workers need to mobilize to remote mining sites, such as in northern Canada, or healthcare personnel and patients are deployed across multiple locations, the logistics become exponentially more complex than typical business travel. Beyond booking flights and accommodations, companies must coordinate workforce schedules, enforce security clearances, manage compliance, and connect multiple systems across the supply chain.
For nearly 25 years, Canada-based Nomadis has pioneered what founder and CEO Jean-Philippe Lavallée calls ”human logistics”: a comprehensive approach to managing scheduling, mobilization planning, healthcare appointments, security access, and workforce forecasting. Customers in mining, construction, oil and gas, healthcare, and government sectors rely on Nomadis for its high degree of automation and integration of complex processes.
However, Nomadis’ former, monolithic hosting architecture was holding the company back from international growth. Scaling from its current portfolio of customers up to thousands globally in the coming years would have meant costly infrastructure expansion and inefficient updates.
This setup also made it difficult to comply with data residency regulations. Nomadis needed to store customers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data in specific regions while centralizing other services. The company's previous monolithic system made this difficult because it required duplicate systems or complex workarounds to support this.
Our mission is to empower organizations in providing safe, efficient, and worry-free travel and logistical services with state-of-the-art technology.
Jean-Philippe Lavallée
Founder and CEO, Nomadis
Nomadis realized it needed to pivot to a cloud-based microservice approach to provide better integration with third-party systems, such as identity and access management, travel booking, HR, accounting, and security. That’s when Nomadis turned to Google Cloud for its global reach and modern, flexible architecture.
Scaling from a single hosting provider to a cost-effective and trusted cloud platform
The transition from a monolithic architecture to Google Cloud modernized Nomadis’s cloud stack. The company adopted Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to manage containerized applications, Cloud SQL for relational databases, and Google Pub/Sub services to enable reliable messaging between systems.
Transitioning to Google Cloud opens up possibilities: we can rebuild the whole ecosystem architecture to make it more scalable and leverage different technologies that better serve certain purposes (without the extra development efforts).
Jean-Philippe Lavallée
Founder and CEO, Nomadis
Lavallée explains: “Google Cloud had an edge over other solutions that we evaluated. Google Cloud makes it easy to connect different pieces of the ecosystem together. It gives us a modern cloud stack to rebuild our entire platform while avoiding extra deployment efforts.”
The rollout was “quite easy,” adds Lavallée. “We started out with two or three servers, and now we’ve scaled up to a larger infrastructure with a variety of components, including security monitoring and log ingestion. We’re building and constantly developing new components using Google Cloud to support.”
Previously, for infrastructure upgrades, Nomadis’s software team had to update the entire stack at once, forcing large, synchronized deployments every two weeks. A single defect could ripple across the whole platform and impact all customers.
With Google Cloud, each service is packaged in its own container using GKE and managed independently with Cloud SQL as storage. Updates can be deployed to only the services that need them, while others remain untouched. This highly available, modular approach means Nomadis can ship improvements continuously with built-in rollback and monitoring to minimize risk. For its customers, this translates into faster delivery of new features, more stability, and fewer service interruptions.
Since one of Nomadis’s key differentiators is its deep integrations and automation of complex processes, Google Cloud has helped keep the company competitive by connecting entire ecosystems into a seamless platform. In a monolithic system, every new integration required changes to the core codebase, creating brittle point-to-point connectors and risking regression.
By moving to a microservices architecture with Pub/Sub, Nomadis can deliver cleaner, resilient integrations.
Delivering high automation and tight integration within a resilient and trusted infrastructure
With its new platform running on Google Cloud, Nomadis can grow efficiently and affordably using cloud sharing. Rather than managing separate servers for each customer, this allows for many customers to share the same underlying systems, while keeping their data separate. Nomadis uses the pay-as-you-go model from Google Cloud, and compute power is increased only when it’s needed.
“Recently, we had to transition storage for documents, pictures, and other files that were spread across on-premises systems and even embedded in databases,” Lavallée says. “With Google Cloud, we could build a simple endpoint and use Google Cloud Storage APIs to move everything over. It’s far more scalable and cost-effective, and it performs better across our entire application suite.”
Beyond cost savings, Nomadis can better demonstrate trust and security to its enterprise and government customers. The company is transparent about its partnership with Google Cloud, and shares its SOC 2 Type II reports and infrastructure details with customers. It also leverages Google Cloud certifications to give customers full confidence in the platform.
Looking to the future, Nomadis is expanding its platform to support a marketplace ecosystem for customers, with some services hosted centrally and others decentralized.
For example, an airline partner might integrate their booking systems directly into the marketplace, while sensitive client data remains in Canadian data centers. Google Cloud enables this with its global infrastructure and flexible deployments.
With Google Cloud, we can just build a simple endpoint, leverage the cloud storage APIs and transition to something that’s much more scalable, much more economical for us, and offers us better performance across the entire application suite.
Jean-Philippe Lavallée
Founder and CEO, Nomadis
Nomadis automates the management of travel, transportation, and security for workers and patients moving across remote sites. Its platform integrates with airlines/GDS, HR, accounting, and security software.
Industry: Technology
Location: Canada
Products: Google Cloud, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine, Pub/Sub
