The Smart Company usage of Cloud

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2. The Smart Company develops with the Cloud, ICT tools aiming at a better business productivity • Part of MIC Boostcamp – (need image ici) • Part of DIV-Dragon (Lauréat) • Clients in more than 20 countries • In house products What do we do at The Smart Company?
3. Diversity in the team: • Developer – SaaS • IT – Hardware + Services • Psychologist • Communication expert The team
4. We have developed different tools on cloud: • Energy Impact: energy monitoring for households and companies http://www.energyimpact.be • The Smart Invoice: invoicing tool for freelancers and SMEs http://app.thesmartinvoice.com • More… What do we do on the Cloud?
5. How do we define the cloud? Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet.
6. Why do we talk about the cloud today?
7. Why do we talk about the cloud today?
8. That’s the case of Energy Impact
9. That’s the case of Energy Impact
10. Why did we use the cloud? • No investment • Pay for usage • Maintenance • Flexibility • Continuous integration • Continuous deployment • Global ready
11. No investment • Big companies and startup can benefit from the same profesionnal infrastructure for their project • Thanks to this, we are able to propose high standard infrastructure for Energy Impact clients.
12. No investment As a SME, you had to invest in: Servers Licences People (not everybody is expert in serveur configuration)  All this takes time! For Energy Impact, it was mainly a matter of time savings
13. Pay as you use it Let’s think about our Invoicing application: • Users mainly use it end of month • End of a trimester represents 69% of traffic Thanks to the « pay as you go » we only pay when our users use the application.
14. Pay as you use it TIME IT CAPACITY Actual Load Allocated IT-capacities “Waste“ of capacities “Under-supply“ of capacities Fixed cost of IT-capacities Load Forecast Barrier for innovations
15. Pay as you use it Actual Load Allocated IT capacities Reduction of initial investments Reduction of “over-supply“ No “under-supply“ Possible reduction of IT-capacities in case of reduced load Time IT CAPACITY Load Forecast
16. Maintenance • Externalize maintenance to the cloud provider • Want to get the latest technologies available? Fine! • Security patches
17. Flexibility • A few month ago, we get featured by the press (on TV, paper news, Radio, etc.) • +1500% daily visits on the week we get featured. • No down time thanks to cloud flexibility
18. Countinuous integration • Test your application in every stage of development • PaaS makes it easy for you to configure testing environment
19. Countinuous deployment • Energy Impact is always up to date • Each time we finish a feature development, we push online (take less than 30sec.) • You can configure to select which user get access to this new feature (early adopters)
20. Global ready Cloud infrastructures are present world wide. It helps your services to deliver content localy.
21. Question for you • # of users? After 1 month? 6 months? 1 yr? • Capacity? Servers? Bandwidth? Storage? • How do you scale up or down over time? • How can you handle peak loads? • How do you provide high availability? • What are the upfront capital costs? • How quickly can you go live? • How do you reduce your operations costs
22. Focus on your core business Even if you are an IT company, you want your team focus on your product and costumers and NOT on IT issue. It helps us a lot focusing on creation great products without being disturb by the IT mess.