Case Study: Cloud project AltexSoft 2007-2015
Project Information Customer Information Company Name Address Website quietpresence, LLC Norfolk, VA 23504, USA Under NDA Project Information Industry Environment Technologies Duration Team Hosting, Cloud technologies Linux Git, NetBeans IDE, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, AJAX, SOAP, Ladoninze, Apache, Libcloud, Yii, Zend Framework 2 (several libraries), MySQL 4+ months 1 software engineer, 1 software architect Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 2
Challenge AltexSoft s client is a provider of cloud computing services for the federal, telecommunications and high performance computing markets. The company provides wholesale and privatelabeled cloud infrastructure services to market leading organizations in the multi-system operators, telecommunications, and Federal markets. The client s idea was to build a cloud application to test a product hypothesis with minimal resources, and to get the product to customers as soon as possible. Time-to-market was very important. To provide rapid implementation, a solution was required which would better support their customer and partner facing business processes. The solution is for small and medium-sized cloud hosting retailers, which allows the integration of hosting billing solutions such as WHMCS with large cloud solutions providers like RackSpace, Amazon, Linode using a single user-friendly interface. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 3
Solution As an independent and trusted advisor, AltexSoft has always aimed at recommending solutions that align with clients business needs and provide results in a timely manner. To lower its operating costs and speed up the new product development, it was decided to develop a MVP minimum viable product. The minimum viable product is a version of a new product which allows a company to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. The product is typically deployed to a subset of possible customers, such as early adopters, who are thought to be more forgiving, more likely to give feedback, and are able to grasp a product vision from an early prototype or marketing information. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 4
Implementation The MVP has been designed to be agile in deployment, massively scalable, hypervisor agnostic, and geographically redundant. The MVP integrated WHMCS billing system with a wide range of different cloud hosting services, such as Rackspace, Amazon AWS, Linode, Zerigo and so on. The WHMCS provisioning module works with different cloud service providers via a python-based layer using SOAP. The system provides a Yii-based management panel to small hosts that allows resellers to configure connections with different clouds and create product bundles that can be imported into WHMCS. AltexSoft was engaged in the full development lifecycle including requirement specification, architecture design, development and testing, and deployment. Copyright 2007-2013 ALTEXSOFT 5
Benefits The customer received a solution for small hosts allowing them to work as resellers of cloud infrastructure; Significant reduction in time to market; Reduced client costs; More acquisitions and more deals settled, proving a quick return on investment; More IT Management flexibility and availability. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 6
PDS 2.0 by AltexSoft AltexSoft offers innovative product development services (PDS 2.0) for E-commerce & Retail, Finance & Banking, Healthcare & Life sciences, Travel & Booking, Marketing & Advertising, Aviation & Transportation Systems as well as dedicated teams of various software specialists to participate in IT projects. Leveraging the latest and most competitive technologies, such as Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics & Big Data Analytics, we deliver custom solutions that improve your business processes. Our team also provides professional consulting on project management, architecture of information systems and quality assurance of software products. Please visit http://www.altexsoft.com/case-studies/ for other Client Success Stories. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 7
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