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Enhanced Software Pipelines in the Cloud: How Cloud Computing Boosted Orders by 14,000% in a multinational business

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Cloud Computing, the management of cloud infrastructure and resources, can play a crucial role in making a business’s digital transformation successful. Get Cloud Computing right, and you enjoy:


Increased agility as you respond faster to changing requirements and demands by enabling fast provisioning of resources in a flexible and dynamic environment.

Enhanced scalability as you scale resources up and down depending on use and demand.

Accelerated automation of tasks such as provisioning, testing and monitoring.
High availability, disaster recovery and improved security including firewalls, encryption and access control to protect resources in the cloud.

Lower costs as the need for on-prem infrastructure, labor and IT resources decreases.

For multinational businesses with vendors and customers spread across continents, cloud-based e-commerce infrastructures are necessary and common, but some of them are far from optimal, especially when it comes to deploying new applications across the platform quickly and cleanly.

At CI&T, we use Cloud Computing techniques to help those businesses establish better software pipelines in the cloud.

Why can’t they do it on their own? We often find that large manufacturers and retailers with legacy mindsets don’t perceive themselves as agile technology companies.

Rather than building and deploying applications strategically and incrementally, they tend to wait, sometimes far too long, to drop a big and cumbersome “finished product” that struggles to gain traction with users.

We train them to break through their silos, move faster and smarter with smaller and more autonomous teams and take development and deployment step by step.

Our Cloud Computing platform — a blend of code, software and tools

can hold multiple products and can be virtually cut and pasted into new geographical locations in a couple of weeks, with relatively simple modifications for local security and compliance needs.

It can have a remarkable effect. For one very large enterprise, we were able to lower software deployment time from 50 days down to multiple deployments every day, giving their team much more time to think about business issues rather than tech issues.

It used to take them six months to create a new application for deployment. Now they can do it in under a month.

As a result, they have been able to unlock the potential of their business, with monthly active users up by 13,600%, orders up by 14,000% and gross merchandise value up 4,300%, all within 18 months.

Some lessons to
keep in mind

  • When you need to scale services, choose an optimal engineering approach instead of simply growing the team.
  • Optimize the team’s structure to become lean and agile, with a constant focus on engineering.
  • Don’t try to change legacy mindsets or upend the status quo unless you have metrics to make your case.
  • Embrace operations to make a digital transformation stick for the long run.

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