VEM Sistemi

OVERVIEW

VEM Sistemi is an Italian provider of ICT services. A smart vision and the continuous research of innovation makes VEM Sistemi a leader in providing system integration solutions. VEM Sistemi chose beSharp as a partner to implement a platform aimed to manage realtime performance monitoring planned and predictive maintenance of customer’s industrial machines.

THE CHALLENGE

Obtaining a flexible, scalable and cost-effective solution for the ingestion of all the data coming from customers’ Industrial equipment (IoT) taking advantage of the SaaS delivery model.

Implementing a cloud-oriented and multi-tenant product, guided by a skilled partner able to design and implement a solution that could scale and grow along with their business needs.

Automating the deploy of the application and, by getting an effective way to deeply analyze the impact of every application change instantly, implementing a validation process to ensure rock-solid releases.

THE SOLUTION

Adoption of the Serverless model based on Lambda Functions and Amazon API Gateway and implementation of a more granular architecture based on microservices.

A well-designed, custom solution, based on a deep understanding of both tradeoffs and SaaS delivery model best practices, able to fit both the current and future business dynamics.

Implementation of CI/CD pipelines through the use of AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and a strict division into different development environments: dev to keep control on all the changes affecting the application core, staging used to test application’s changes in a production-like infrastructure, validated also by demo users and production. dev utile a validare tutti i cambiamenti applicativi, staging per testare l’applicativo in un ambiente equiparabile a quello di produzione, validato da utenti di demo e produzione.

THE BENEFITS

Optimization

Thanks to the granular approach provided by microservices, it became easier for VEM SIstemi to align tenant activity with resource consumption in order to obtain both costs and performance optimization.

Business

Through the adoption of the SaaS best practices, VEM Sistemi got a cloud-oriented and multi-tenant product able to easily follow any business needs.

Automation

The complete automation of all the deploy phases allowed VEM Sistemi’s developers to reduce the risk of application bugs and malfunctions to zero achieving 100% customer satisfaction.

ABOUT BESHARP AND AWS

beSharp and VEM Sistemi worked together to create an Industry 4.0 solution based on a microservices architecture leveraging on the Software-as-a-Services delivery model.

Through on-the-job training, beSharp helped VEM Sistemi’s developers in understanding and mastering all the key concepts of the SaaS paradigm.

As part of the AWS APN Partner Network, beSharp has achieved acknowledgments and competencies such as DevOps Competency and Well-Architected Framework partnership, both applied in every phase of the design and of the implementation of the solution.