Azure

A path breaking social networking platform for SMBs required Plutustree to design, build, implement and transfer.

Challenge

An SME required a highly scalable social networking platform focused on small and medium businesses (SMBs) to make provision for a single-stop application for all resources needed by client to succeed along with ease-of-use collaborative tools. The features of the application had to be conceptualized and finalized in a rapid fashion from green-lighting including innovation on-the-go. The site had to scale as this was to target SMBs globally to address performance, redundancy, cross-platform functionality and security.

It was required that the project be handled by a Plutustree team who would function as a dedicated in source team. This was a specific requirement given the nature of the platform as it would require ongoing updating, addition of new features and maintenance on demand.

Solution

Plutustree dedicated to this project a group of six developers from its skilled human resource pool to work in close consort with the design and technical leads at the company. Rapid prototyping with multi-round iterations supported the client to conceptualization their vision and what was expected of the platform. Plutustree contributed to a large extent in defining user interface, features and functional design.

Microsoft Azure Cloud was selected for deploying the site. This would not only allow the use of Microsoft. NET’s powerful features but also provide a robust, highly scalable and secure platform and keeping costs down at the same time.

Deploying Best-Practice, Just-In Time and Agile process-oriented approaches resulted in prompt delivery, ahead of schedule while mitigating cost over-runs, in-efficiencies and an extremely satisfied client.

Technology Deployed

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Azure
  • SQL Azure

Benefits

A clear win-win situation for both sides while cementing a solid partnership. The Client benefited from the quality and timely work product delivered by Plutustree at a competitive price. Thus enabling a successful on-time launch for the company.

Technical Competency Profile

  • Building a complete social media and collaborative platform on Windows Azure, SQL Azure
  • Design and Implement Database Schema, Import data from external databases and creating SQL objects on SQL Azure.
  • Design and Implement WCF services layer hosted on Windows Azure.
  • Improve performance of data transfer between SQL Azure and WCF services by building Cache memory
  • Built a POC in Azure that accesses 3rd party data services via Web Services/WCF services.
  • Dynamic scaling, automatically adding/removing cloud based computation, storage and network resources based upon evolving workloads.
  • Managing AZURE diagnostics
  • Hosting, deploying and managing AZURE deployments
  • Built an Azure scheduler to perform interval based task using Web Role as well as Worker Role.
  • Building and maintaining the DAC for SQL Azure.

Team Profile: Average Years of Experience - 3+, Size – 6, Qualifications - Graduate/Post Graduate in Computer Science/Computer Applications