Builder empowers anyone to create, operate and scale the lifecycle of digital projects. We do so with three products: BuilderStudio. Build your next software project using an assembly-line platform implemented with the assistance of human-assisted AI and a vast network of global technical resources. BuilderCare. BuilderCare guarantees your bespoke software stays up-to-date, and continues after third-party libraries such as Facebook APIs are updated. BuilderCloud. Leverage AI and machine learning to effortlessly maintain the scale of your cloud infrastructure. Speakers: Varghese Cherian, Managing Director & SVP, Builder.ai

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Builder: A human-assisted AI platform that lets you
build, run & scale tailor-made software.

3. A human-assisted AI platform that lets you build, run & scale
tailor-made software.
2019

5. What we do and why we do it?

6. Builder
Introduction
Everyone is a Builder.
We believe that everyone should be empowered to unlock their true potential in being a Builder,
irrespective of what they know, what they have and what they are afraid of.
In everything we do, we believe in pushing the boundaries of conventional thinking;
to look at every problem differently and from the ground up.
-
Sachin Dev Duggal,
Founder & CEO,
Builder

7. * "The Standish Group Report Chaos - Project Smart." https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/white-papers/chaos-report.pdf.
Accessed 30 July. 2018
We’re Solving
The Problems
Building software is complex, risky and inefficient because the vast majority of software is built and managed by a
cottage industry of small agencies and generalist developers. The overwhelming nature of software development,
broken process, lack of transparency along with the explicit need to have know-how is why there is an astounding 78%
failure rate of software projects in the SME/SMB space.*
The lack of traditional know-how and the fear of failure often detracts many Builders from even starting at all; so many
ideas that could have been, never are. Entrepreneurs inside and outside of a company simply succumb to inertia, the
fear of failure outweighs the fear of irrelevance.
This cycle of irrelevance & fear, followed by inertia, leads to wasted human potential, on an epic scale.
We come from a belief that this is unacceptable.

8. Why:
To empower people to create software powered ideas so that they can fulfill their potential; the journey from the idea
in their head to the living breathing solution in the real world.
We Do
Why, How & What
How:
We do this by transcending the need for traditional tech knowledge, increasing the efficiency of resources human or
otherwise, and by creating a transparent end to end process that caters to the entire life-cycle of an idea.
What:
Our turnkey platform builds, runs & scales just about anything our customers can think of. Our human-assisted AI can
build their tailor-made software using the collective knowledge of what has been built before; an assembly line
connects reusable features with specialist creators from our global network. Once built, we provide after-care so that
everything is working optimally and never goes out of date, we make sure they have access to all the services needed
for their idea to be successful; technology infrastructure to specialists service providers.
In this way any idea can be built, run and scaled unrestricted by current knowledge and with a quality beyond the reach
of any one generalist.

9. It’s immediate: Scope your project without a product manager
Customers assemble their desired features to begin to see their idea come to life in minutes; they follow its build week by week
with guidance from our dedicated product experts.
It’s efficient: Only pay for what is unique and not common features
Ideas are built on a framework of reusable features and proven workflows; customization is done through a Human-assisted AI
that manages the specialist creator network to ensure quality and speed.
It’s simple: Predictable and transparent and easy to choose from
No wasted time on meetings and scope-creep, you can add/remove features online and track each day’s work transparently.
Customers pay by at their pace and can stop work at any time. They can prototype, build an MVP or go for gold.
A human-assisted AI platform that lets you build, run & scale tailor-made software.
Of View
Our Point

10. Platform Partner for Life
Our turn-key platform lets everyone
build & run software without ever
having to understand technology.
Our Human-Assisted AI will build,
support and run your idea.
PEACE OF MIND
Software Cover that ensures your app never
ever goes out of date.
RUN EFFICIENTLY
All the services need to keep your software
project running in a single marketplace.
BuilderCloud VCloud additionally brings down the
price of your Cloud Costs & manages it to a
preset budget.
BESPOKE SOFTWARE MADE SIMPLE
Our Human-Assisted-AI platform enables everyone to build bespoke
software using a library of reusable features, a network of creators
connected by a global software assembly line

11. Demo

12. Most software has to deal with at least 3-5 different vendors during its
operational life-cycle; some more than 20, BuilderCloud takes care of this
relationship management through a programmatic experience that ensures you
only get one bill and no headaches.
vCloud - always more efficient
Natasha works in the background to buy excess capacity from the leading
vendors of Cloud Computing to ensure you always get the best price; and
manages the infrastructure to your budget.
Technical Marketplace (alpha version)
Everything from analytics to integrations; our technical marketplace is tightly
integrated with Builder so that all the services you need to run your idea are in a
single bill.
Performance Marketplace (alpha version)
Find all the services needed to make your idea perform better; whether its more
installs, more users or better marketing. Find providers through our marketplace
to work with your idea and grow it.
BuilderCloud: marketplace for running software

13. AI & ML at its Core
BuilderCloud is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
centric platform that makes your money, time and efforts become more
productive on using public cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web
Services
Saving millions of cloud $ for customers
We work with close to 2000 customers to provide them with value-
added benefits on running the cloud infrastructure. BuilderCloud uses a
combination of data engineering and statistical models to make real-time
infrastructure purchases (in millions of dollars) and exchanges in an
optimal way to offer you savings on your cloud bill ranging from 5% to
12%.
Access to thousands of DevOps creators across 8 time zones for
Managed Services
Managed services offering by using a capacity network of partners,
currently, we have 132 partners and 100,000 creators (engineers who are
designers, developers, DevOps, QA, etc.,) to offer services like DevOps
services such as migration to the cloud, optimization of infrastructure,
24/7 support, etc.
BuilderCloud: For Cloud First Customers

14. Multi-tiered Account Management for Large Organizations
Several large organizations such as yours have a challenge of centralizing
procurement and spend on public cloud infrastructure and our platform gives you
the ease of centralizing cloud purchases through a unified dashboard, monitor all
accounts in a single window and optimize spends while you get information that
can be drilled down account wise.
Simple to use Console to monitor Cloud
Easy access to a BuilderCloud console to enable cost comparisons of usage with
the previous month as well as see how much you are saving on costs.
Highly available Reserved Instance Marketplace
BuilderCloud also gives you access to the Reserved Instance (RI) Marketplace**
where you can buy short-term (3 months to a year) and the 1 year RI's coming to
you at a better price offering as compared to the OEMs. You can save up to 35% on
elastic compute cloud by committing to a year on certain elastic compute
workloads.
BuilderCloud: For Cloud First Customers

15. Parallel Billing system that updates hourly
We have built a parallel billing system that updates hourly to make a more
accurate prediction of cloud usage to provide you with a dashboard that is part
of BuilderCloud.
Interactive Bills & recommendation
Interactive billing which gives insights into resource utilization based on the
different services a company is under/over-utilizing and a recommendation
engine guides you to turn off services or right-size services to save cost.
Piping data for custom reports using Tableau
Access to BuilderCloud Reports which will provide with various kinds of reports
pertaining to your AWS usage (slice and dice information into region-wise,
service wise and company wise or combinations.. You can choose your own
formats and our analytics engine pipes the data to provide you insights
BuilderCloud: For Cloud First Customers

16. Controlled spending, fixed budgets: System ensures spends only as much as the user
wants. After notifying a user, if the wallet isn’t recharged, system backs up and
suspends the user’s services.
User friendly: Many first-time users are not comfortable using their credit cards for
AWS as very often the bill comes is a shock. The Upfront Cloud Wallet provides peace of
mind that their bill will never exceed budgets.
Local Currency Billing: We support the ability to bill our customers in 82 different
currencies and a variety of payment options including debit cards, credit cards, digital
wallets such as Paytm, and more!
Simplified Real Time Bill: BuilderCloud shows how the credits are being used, in an easy
to use dashboard.
Monthly Usage Prediction and real time billing alerts: An easy to use dashboard lets
users view their monthly spend basis service used and predicts and displays next
month’s probable usage along with user notifications on preset amounts as and when
limits are reached.
Upfront Cloud Wallet is your account’s prepaid wallet that ensures you access your AWS account without a credit card, fix
your budgets and never overspend on your account.
BuilderCloud Wallet

17. Demo

18. 18
Migration Phases
•Assess cost
•Assess Architecture
•Assess Security
Cloud Assessment phase
•Learn AWS
•Build a pilot and validate the
technologies
•Mitigate the risk by validating the
critical pieces of the infrastructure
Proof of Concept
•Understand the storage options in
AWS
•
•Migrate file servers to AWS S3
•Migrate Applications and RDBS to
EC2 or RDS
Data Migration
•Define the strategy
•Forklift strategy
•Hybrid strategy
Application Migration
•Understand AWS services
•Implement the cloud strategies
•Utilize multiple Availability zones
Leverage the Cloud phase
•Optimize usage based on demand
•Improve Efficiency
•Monitoring
•Re-engineering
Optimization

19. Migration Challenges
Deconstruct the on-premise technical environment
Performance and relationship of migrating
application.
Understand the current operational processes.
Policy issues and business rules
Security policies
People/culture issues
Regulation

20. Cloud Assessment & Migration help the customers to learn, understand, and migrate to the cloud. This is the initial phase in which
we understand our client’s business and determine which cloud strategy is suitable for a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective
migration.
Cloud Assessment : The initial step!
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Evaluate workloads or the group of
applications that the customer
wants to move to cloud. Common
examples of workloads are business
applications, email servers, SaaS
Services.
Workloads
The CIOs may ask the team to do
risk analysis or a proof of concept
for testing cloud underlying
infrastructure and services. You
should test a non-critical
application migration to cloud
before committing to a total cloud
transformation.
Prioritizing
Customers must decide the specific
time slots for their migration. They
are different than downtime
requirements for migration.
Timelines
Sometimes subcomponents of the
same application are named
differently. Over a period of a
business application’s lifetime they
are treated and funded separately,
and the top level IT staff categorize
them separately during assessment.
Grouping or interface
Cloud migration is considered a pure “lift and shift” of the software stack: operating
system, applications, databases, interfaces and other components. In this approach, the
customer expects similar functionality and features after the application is enabled in
Cloud environment.
The second approach is an accelerated approach where migration and an upgrade are
combined together. For some customers, this approach works better. It saves cost and
manpower requirements by combining testing for the two changes. A single go-live also
enables the company to achieve the same goal in shorter duration. The benefits will
almost always outweigh the risks when using this approach.
Migration strategy

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Case Studies

22. Case Study
SAMAGRA – Department of General Education Kerala
Potential user base : 160K+ teachers, 37+ lakh
students
Key Challenges:
1. Kerala Govt. looked for a stable and scalable
service-deployment plan.
2. Handle such large volumes of users on the
website with low latency.
3. For such a requirement Kerala Govt. needed
an IT solution that could quickly scale to
meet rising demand at the same time.
Before MigrationSamagra is the Kerala
government's Official Learning
Management System designed for
the Schools and students who
follow the Kerala State syllabus.
After Migration

23. Case Study
SAMAGRA – Department of General Education Kerala
Potential user base : 160K+ teachers, 37+ lakh
students
Key Challenges:
1. Kerala Govt. looked for a stable and scalable
service-deployment plan.
2. Handle such large volumes of users on the
website with low latency.
3. For such a requirement Kerala Govt. needed
an IT solution that could quickly scale to
meet rising demand at the same time.
OutcomesSamagra is the Kerala
government's Official Learning
Management System designed for
the Schools and students who
follow the Kerala State syllabus.
•Load time improved by around 43%.
•Pre AWS was 16 seconds and now it is around 9 seconds.
•The average server response time dropped to 0.41 sec
from 1.03 sec a drop of almost 0.6 sec 60% improvement.
•Improved Performance and Scalability
•Samagra boosted the performance and scalability of the
platform by designing resources to scale to meet demand as
required. This also reduced the overall application footprint.

24. Case Study
Centre For Development Of Imaging Technology – Govt. of Kerala
Challenge
The donation portal was developed in the
context of the August’18 natural calamity and
has contributed substantively to the efforts
towards rebuilding Kerala. The parameters of
system performance generated during the
period are revealing.
On 18th August 2018, the traffic on the
donation portal shot up, the bandwidth and
resources required exploited and the donation
portal crashed by afternoon. The distribution of
users on the portal rose to 4,20,000 and touch
6,00,000 at the peak duration. On 19th early
morning migration to the AWS server was done.
After Migration
Business Outcome:
The variation in server connection time as recorded by the webserver
is provided in the figure below. The latency rose to exceptionally high
on 18th August. After migrating the Amazon webserver the server
connection time dropped to a few seconds.
Infrastructure was highly available, scalable and agile to handle such
huge load with minimum manual intervention.

25. BuilderStudio : For Public Sector Overview of smart city services
There is a wide range of services and applications covering fields such as transportation
(intelligent road networks, connected cars and public transport), public utilities (smart
electricity, water and gas distribution), education, health and social care, public safety.
Emerging applications and services are extended into diverse fields such as everyday life of
citizens, disaster management, smart buildings, logistics and intelligent procurement. The
applications for this portfolio include implementation for the connected city such as: smart
grid, smart home, security, building automation, remote health and wellness monitoring,
location aware applications, mobile payments and other machine-to-machine (M2M)
applications.We with Builder help you conceptualize these applications using the robust
platform and suggest the features required to cover all the aspects of the said application .
The Role of Technology
Builder uses advanced new technology to improve city applications and services. There
are communications, analytical and control technologies that permit transforming the
way of doing things while influencing better policy and urban management. Our scalable
technology is changing the entire way the service can be solved, combining the ICTs
with city infrastructure and shifting the city systems solutions.
Developed applications are able to supply real-time information and expand the ability
to forecast and manage urban flows, and fulfil other functions of the city. Also, they can
help to reveal how demands for transportation, water and energy peak in a city and how
to take appropriate action and respond. It is important to the city stakeholders that they
can collaborate to smooth these peaks and to achieve robustness .

26. Builder : Smart Cities Application and Services
The expression “smart city” has been used for several years by a number of technology
companies and serves as a description for the application of compound systems to integrate
the operation of urban infrastructure and services.
The provision of real-time information about urban infrastructures is important for running
different helpful applications and services.The spectrum of application areas is very wide.
For example, real-time travel information is essential for applications which let people plan
trips on public transportation. The user could have real time information about when the next
bus or train is coming.
Another example is an application, which collects and distributes real time information about
where parking is accessible so drivers can promptly find free spaces, pre-book them and pay
online using different wallet integrations we provide . Access to suitable data represents an
opportunity for developers to create applications. In this way stakeholders can access wide
online services, with portals for basic information, citizen services, business, and tourism, all
based on a common infrastructure.
Smart cities are deploying all these application and services online in different sectors of
cities which brings to the next part of the presentation , hosting on cloud.
Smart Waste
Management
Smart Lighting
Smart Energy
&
Smart Grid
Smart Mobility
Smart WaterSmart Meters

27. BuilderCloud : For Public Sector
Role of Cloud computing in Smart City development
The smart city vision involves enriching quality of life by gaining data insight from
interconnected sensors, devices and people. Continuous urban issues like security, waste
management and traffic can be addressed by using data to gain efficiencies; but to do this all
of the data needs somewhere to go where it can be easily accessed and used by all
stakeholders, both private and governmental.
The cloud service will help break down intergovernmental storage wherein different
departments have no clear channel to communicate and understand data-based priorities of
other departments – a factor seen as a major obstacle to smart city adoption. Using
BuilderCloud the stakeholders get insights on not only the required cloud infrastructure but
also the future needs as per the current usage .
Smart cities can take advantage from cloud based solutions in infrastructure, platforms and
application (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), services with cloud platforms, obstacles and enablers in using
cloud technologies, and changes to applications and e-services along their migration to
cloud environments.
Builder.ai has helped several government and education organizations migrate to the cloud
and free-up resources by lowering IT costs while improving productivity, operational
resiliency, and business agility.

28. Thank You

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