CASE HISTORY: CUSTOMIZED CLOUD SOLUTION FOR OPPORTUNITY
Analysis and design of a tailored cloud solution for a social gaming platform
Today we will talk about our client Opportunity, the social gaming platform of Principality of Monaco, it was born in 2015 from the idea of an Italian entrepreneur who lives in Monaco. It is a social network based on the chance of winning money rewards monthly, simply using the social gaming platform, playing with other users and accumulating virtual tokens. At the end of the month the person who accumulate more tokens is the winner.
Now Opportunity is a successful startup, with a staff of 7 people and it has already reached significant numbers. Just to mention some data, Opportunity has closed in February 2016 four months of beta stage, with a total of 50k posts, 420k likes,70k comments, 45k private messages, and it has already distributes 40k euros of rewards among their users.
- The business needs of our client
Opportunity was looking for a technological partner to design the best infrastructure for the new social gaming project. In particular, the client needed a vendor able to provide a customized architectural solution with the basic requirement of high-scalability. - The challenge
Criticalcase took over the study of the project and provided a depth infrastructural consulting, in order to identify accurately specific requirements of the infrastructure requested and to build a customized cloud solution. - The solution
Criticalcase, after a phase of detailed analysis and consulting, designed for Opportunity a complex infrastructure with all the technical parameters required.
The advice and design activity was implemented in several phases and in the following lines you can find the description of the several working steps carried out by our staff to close the project:
1. Preliminary analysis
Collection of information and functionalities of the website/applications and careful data analysis to understand the platform logic and to identify modes and limits of scalability.
2. Design of infrastructure
Location of suitable products and services to manage the expected workloads and the requested features.
Should ensure a high level of security, scalability and redundance, Criticalcase made up the scheme of a customized infrastructural solution based on the products selected.
3. Creation of the test environment
Once we shared the choice of tools with the client, we took care to build the test environment in order to allow the Opportunity’s team to start developing on Criticalcase’s platform.
4. Technical support
It was also provided a continuous support on configuring to reply to doubts and issues that gradually came out using the development environment.
5. Creation of the production environment
Subsequently, we have reached the final stages of the project, focusing on the building of the production environment.
Any single stage of the project was cured into detail to provide the best support to the startup development from the infrastructural and technological perspective and to ensure the client’s fulfillment. The added value of our company, that represents also one of the reasons why Opportunity and many other customers chose us, is the attention dedicated to every company’s specific requirement and the commitment in designing tailored solutions capable to ensure the best performance and increase the business productivity.
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