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Huge Benefits When Deploying to Alpha Cloud

UK development business Start Software is gaining huge benefits from deploying their Alpha-built applications to Alpha Cloud, the new cloud-based hosting environment based on Amazon’s AWS infrastructure.

Alpha Cloud, the new cloud-based hosting environment based on Amazon’s AWS infrastructure is an ideal solution for a range of businesses.Director Robin Bennett said, “Before we started to deploy to AlphaCloud, we had to manually create dev, test and production environments for each the systems we were building for our clients.  Sometimes these would co-exist on AWS servers but not always; sometimes we would need to replicate entire environments to keep systems separate for technical or operations reasons.  All of this took time and money to set up and maintain with the potential for mistakes to happen.”

“If we wanted to try different Alpha app server versions (to take advantage of new functionality, for example) we had another headache with even more environments needing to be created.  This was distracting the team and giving us work and complexity we could do without,” he added.

AlphaCloud manages all of this complexity and has been the solution that Start Software was looking for.  “We can choose to deploy to any Alpha app server version, at any time.  We can now create any number of deployments of our systems at the click of a button.  We can experiment with different setups, server configurations or software versions without worrying about the time and money it would cost to set up.  We can even roll back our applications to any version we have ever published, ever, if a bug in a later version becomes apparent.  This is the stuff of dreams!”

Finance Director Elaine Porter is also pleased with the reduction in AWS costs that Start are seeing.  “Previously, spinning up a new Amazon AWS server for a new testing environment would put costs immediately on our bottom line.  Not many clients understand the need for multiple environments and so they would rarely be happy to accept any Amazon charges passed to them.  The net effect was that increasing the number of environments always reduced our project profitability and AlphaCloud has been the solution we were looking for.” 

Alpha Cloud

Alpha Cloud is built on Amazon Web Services, and does all the work of installing and maintaining server software needed to run your Alpha Anywhere applications, letting you to focus on building business applications. Servers are managed for you, making it easy for you to create testing and demo environments, and easily deploy multiple applications to multiple versions of Alpha Anywhere. That means less cost, less work and more scalability, allowing you to focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure. For details, learn about getting onto the Alpha Cloud.

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Amy Groden-Morrison
Amy Groden-Morrison

Amy Groden-Morrison has served more than 15 years in marketing communications leadership roles at companies such as TIBCO Software, RSA Security and Ziff-Davis. Most recently she was responsible for developing marketing programs that helped achieve 30%+ annual growth rate for analytics products at a $1Bil, NASDAQ-listed business integration Software Company. Her past accomplishments include establishing the first co-branded technology program with CNN, launching an events company on the NYSE, rebranding a NASDAQ-listed company amid a crisis, and positioning and marketing a Boston-area startup for successful acquisition. Amy currently serves as a Healthbox Accelerator Program Mentor, Marketing Committee Lead for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Launch Smart Clinics, and on the organizing team for Boston TechJam. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

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The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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